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Fried Chicken and Pickles: 14 Celebrity Food Demands

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:37:59 CST

Mariah Carey and Jennifer Lopez certainly aren't the only divas in Hollywood: Nicki Minaj's concert rider, recently revealed in a magazine interview, show that she has some pretty involved backstage demands as well. Those include three 12-piece buckets of spicy fried chicken, no thighs, and scented candles smelling like baked...

Idol Idled by Vocal Injury

Elizabeth Wolff — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:00:00 CDT

"American Idol" champ Jordin Sparks has been forced to cancel April concert dates with Alicia Keys because of dangerous vocal-cord hemorrhaging, the New York Post reports. Even a sneeze could permanently damage the 18-year-old chart-topper, who has been singing nonstop since winning "Idol" last year. However, her handlers say, Sparks...

Sparks Best at Being Sweet

Rob Wagner — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:53:37 CST

American Idol season-six winner Jordin Sparks does a sweet job with a hip-hop flavored R&B debut album thanks to a roster of heavy-hitting producers who backed Beyonce and Rihanna among others, writes Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone . She does Prince funk with "Shy Boy," giving her that trademark high-school girlishness.

Jordin is America's Idol

Peter Fearon — Thu, 24 May 2007 05:38:47 CDT

FOX's new American Idol is 17-year-old Jordin Sparks. The teenager outsang and outperformed her last remaining rival Blake Lewis, wowing the Idol judges and hauling in a majority of the record 74 million votes cast. Jordin, the daughter of former New York Giants cornerback Phillippi Sparks, is the youngest ever...