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'Idol' Theme Week News
We already know that Jennifer Lopez is scheduled to perform on American Idol the week of April 11th.
Now I can confirm that the theme for that week will be a Latin theme. Lopez speaking to Access Hollywood's Tony Potts from Showest in Las Vegas last night told him, "I'm excited about it. They asked me to come on. I got this e-mail from my manager like 'hey they know you have a Spanish album coming out. They want to know if you will come on. They want to do this whole Latin theme show.'"
She and her husband, Marc Anthony, are huge followers of the show. They Tivo the show when it's on and then watch it later. Anthony revealed to Tony that Lopez will sing the first single, "Qué Hiciste", off her Spanish language album, "Como Ama Una Mujer" when she takes the Idol stage on Wednesday April 11th.
As for last night's eliminated contestant, Brandon Rogers, Marc told Tony he can sympathize with a singer forgetting his words. Even he has done it, "All the time. I have 31 singles I have put out. What am I? Einstein here. I just sing, you know what I mean. I have to memorize it too. That wasn't part of the deal!"
In other theme week news, Next week, Top 11 finalists (Melinda Doolittle, Stephanie Edwards, Gina Glocksen, Lakisha Jones, Blake Lewis, Sanjaya Malakar, Chris Richardson, Haley Scarnato, Chris Sligh, Jordin Sparks and Phil Stacey) compete head-to-head again on Tuesday, March 20 (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed).
The theme for the performance show will be hit songs from the 1960s British pop invasion, with special appearances by British music icons Lulu and Peter Noone. Lulu and Noone will then perform on Wednesday night's results show (9:00-9:30 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) on FOX.
Noone, of the band Herman’s Hermits, posted a blog on his official website all about his excitement to appear on the show, "I think the show is a huge success because it is one of the few places where you can see people with talent performing live. If anyone has ever looked at all the youtube footage of Herman’s Hermits on Ed Sullivan etc, you will hear that most of the time we played live, because we were good at it. Since video killed the radio star it has been a lot of good mimers on TV and if you can’t dance or splash around in puddles, or have vampires pop out of your garden, you are sort of stuck in Karaoke forever.
Idol producers had hoped to get Paul McCartney or Sir George Martin to take part in a Beatles theme week but that fell through prompting the British Invasion Week instead. Executive Producer Ken Warwick told a panel at last week's William S. Paley television festival, "I'm afraid not no, he's too busy and our second choice was Sir George Martin. He'd love to come but we are locked into the series and their are specific dates. We want to save that and we're gonna have a British Invasion week instead."
Oh and on a completely different note, if you happen to run into Katharine McPhee don't ask her about American Idol this year because as she told us, " I don't know anyone's names."
She does claim to be watching though, "I haven't gotten behind anyone yet. I like a lot of them. I cant pick sides. I'm just enjoying watching."
How can you say you are watching this season but not know anyone's names? How would she have felt last year if Carrie Underwood made that same comment. Probably not so good.
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