Idol Gives Back Said “No Way” To George Bush
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OK! Magazine talked to “American Idol” mastermind Nigel Lythgoe who spilled that during the planning for the second annual Idol Gives Back fundraising special, which aired in April, America’s biggest TV show had a disagreement with George Bush!
He said that the show’s producers were so disappointed with President Bush’s efforts to combat the very poverty that the show was trying to relieve that they were embarrassed to have him on their TV show.
But Nigel said that Idol relented under pressure from the Bush’s people, and allowed him to speak during the star-studded broadcast.
“The President is always saying ‘I want to be on [Gives Back],” said the Brit.
“We didn’t ask the President this year to say anything because we are all a bit embarrassed about him, and the office insisted that, because the [primary] candidates were on it, the President would like to come on and say ‘thank you.’”
So far Nigel says, Idol Gives Back, has raised some $142million for projects in the US and Africa.
You know you suck when a television show doesn’t want you to come on it and speak!
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