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6/20: William Hung is still hanging around
By: Rodney Ho | June 20, 2007, 3:24PM EST

William Hung, this generation’s Tiny Tim and the most successful “American Idol” failure ever, showed up in Atlanta for a press conference promoting a reality-show seminar called “Dreams N2 Reality,” set at Philips Arena August 4. Casting directors and previous reality show contestants will be there and you’ll have a chance to be cast on various reality shows.

“The’re trying to find diamonds in the rough,” said organizer Steve Graham, who says the same people are showing up at the Los Angeles auditions.

Billy Kemp, who works for Fremantle and has cast for “American Idol,” “America’s Got Talent” and “American Inventor,” said he will give tips on how to make a video submission pop. He says you have to know what your character is, what your personality is and you have to play it up. “The point of being on television: it doesn’t matter if you are if nobody remembers who you are.” Kemp is currently seeking a replacement for Bob Barker on “The Price is Right.”

Here’s what Hung looks like now, three years after his infamous “SheBangs” audition that propelled him into pseudo-stardom:

William-hung-2.jpg

I may try to talk to Hung afterwards and get more details but during a press conference, he reviewed the three albums he released in 2004 and 2005 and the Hong Kong movie he did. I’ll try to ply him with sort of events he’s doing now. I can’t imagine he’s getting the money he did back in 2004, when the Atlanta Motor Speedway paid him $7,500 to pop up and sing a couple of songs and sign autographs.

Details of this event are at www.dreamsN2reality.net.

(74) Comments
Posted by: 1CHOCL8T on June 20, 2007 2:42PM EST
FIRST!!! FIRST!!

Posted by: on June 20, 2007 2:44PM EST
first

Posted by: on June 20, 2007 2:44PM EST
dang you choc!

Posted by: 1CHOCL8T on June 20, 2007 2:45PM EST
You know ya luv me!! LOL

Posted by: on June 20, 2007 2:45PM EST
William must be eating good, he is fat now.

Posted by: on June 20, 2007 2:45PM EST
um, Mr. Hung has plumped up w/all that cash!

Posted by: on June 20, 2007 2:46PM EST
and he got his grill fixed... praise baby Jesus.

Posted by: 1CHOCL8T on June 20, 2007 2:46PM EST
He's a chunky lil fella. Looks like he's had some dental work too.

Posted by: on June 20, 2007 2:46PM EST
LOL Shaun!!!!

Posted by: on June 20, 2007 2:47PM EST
kimmy, do you remember how jacked up his teeth were? he made elliot Yamin's teeth look like Farrah Fawcetts teeth.

Posted by: on June 20, 2007 2:48PM EST
dayum!shaun, LMAORIFPIMP!!!!!!

Posted by: 1CHOCL8T on June 20, 2007 2:49PM EST
LOL...Dang Shaun. They were pretty bad!! It looked like they were all fighting for a seat on the front row.

Posted by: shay on June 20, 2007 2:50PM EST
LMAO!! Yall stupid. He is fat though. Shaun, I would have to see a close up to know his grill was fixed. Er' body have straight teeth 50 feet a way. But you are right, his teeth were more stacked than his new bank account.

Posted by: on June 20, 2007 2:53PM EST
LOL!!

Posted by: on June 20, 2007 2:54PM EST
ok, code guy need to stop hiding the damn letters behind each other, what sense does that make?

Posted by: Jex on June 20, 2007 2:54PM EST
LMAO!! Y'all stop it!

I may try to make it to that Dreams to Reality thing. That might be fun. But I already know how to make my submission pop.

Pop goes the weasel 'cause the weasel go POP!

Posted by: on June 20, 2007 2:55PM EST
lol, and he did a movie? what was it, Godzilla?

Posted by: on June 20, 2007 2:56PM EST
I know Kimmy, they be all stacked up like Williams teeth.
Jex, go for it, i think you would do good. No joke!

Posted by: on June 20, 2007 2:56PM EST
OMG!stop it!!!!!!!LMAO!!!

Posted by: Jex on June 20, 2007 2:59PM EST
LOL kimmy I know! Some times I can't tell an "m" from an "n" or if it's an "W" or two "N"s.

Unless the letters are just getting bored and are tyring to do each other to form some sort of new age alphabet.

How you think we went from Greek letters to this stuff we got now? Uh-huh. Omega and Rho got together and made Q.

Posted by: shay on June 20, 2007 2:59PM EST
Hung looks like an old pimp sittin' in that chair. Who's yo daddy?? I bet he be tellin' those hos after they finish "you bang, you bang"!!!

LMAOAM!!!!!

Posted by: on June 20, 2007 3:01PM EST
I swear, ya'll gonna get my ass fired---I just blurted out so loud somebody came and asked me what was wrong!!!!!LMAO!

Posted by: 1CHOCL8T on June 20, 2007 3:02PM EST
I have a question for you parents. Why do you find it necessary to play the "guilt trip" game on your kids? Why? Can someone please tell me why?

Yes, I just had a "moment" with my mother. Boy, let me tell you!! I felt like Kramden (sp) from the Honeymooners...."To the moon Alice!!!"

Posted by: 1CHOCL8T on June 20, 2007 3:03PM EST
Shay...no sense at all!!

Posted by: on June 20, 2007 3:10PM EST
Yo Mama so ugly when she was a baby they stuck her in a corner and fed her with a slingshot.


Posted by: on June 20, 2007 3:11PM EST
Yo mama so stupid she put a peep hole in a glass door

Posted by: on June 20, 2007 3:12PM EST
Yo mamas so hairy wen u were born u almost died of rugburn


Posted by: on June 20, 2007 3:14PM EST
Yo Mama so fat the National Weather Agency assigns names to her farts.

Yo Mama so poor that she uses tumbleweed as a Xmas tree.

Posted by: on June 20, 2007 3:15PM EST
sorry, i just got these in an email and had to share:)

Posted by: shay on June 20, 2007 3:16PM EST
your mom is so fat her picture fell down.

Yo mama's so fat, when she bends over we go into daylight savings time.

Yo mama's so fat, her nickname is "Damn."

Posted by: shay on June 20, 2007 3:19PM EST
Yo momma so old I told her to act her own age, and the b* died.

Yo momma so old her social security number is 1!

Yo momma so old that when God said let the be light, she hit the switch.

Yo momma so old that when she was in school there was no history class.


Yo momma so old she knew Burger King while he was still a prince.

Posted by: on June 20, 2007 3:20PM EST
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: 1CHOCL8T on June 20, 2007 3:22PM EST
are those in response to my question? | :

Posted by: Jex on June 20, 2007 3:22PM EST
Yo momma so old she went to school with Jesus and copied off of his paper.

She always asked him what he got for #7.

Posted by: on June 20, 2007 3:24PM EST
oh, NO Choc, one of my friends sent me those in an email and since we were doing them the other day, i wanted to share....bad timing--sorry! no disrespect to your mom:)

Posted by: shay on June 20, 2007 3:26PM EST
Choc, not all parents do that. My parents are heavily dependent on us emotionally and financially and I promised myself I would never do that to my son. My mom lays that emotional guilt trip on you if you miss any holidays coming to her house. She want you to always be with her. My dad constantly asks for money. But, some people have no parents so I try not to complain but daddy mack really need to get a job!

Posted by: 1CHOCL8T on June 20, 2007 3:27PM EST
LOL...oh, okay.

Posted by: Jex on June 20, 2007 3:35PM EST
Well, your mom is pretty old, Choc so mine was serious.




Posted by: Jex on June 20, 2007 3:35PM EST
JUST KIDDING!!

Posted by: on June 20, 2007 3:36PM EST
jex, you bad!!!!!!

Posted by: shay on June 20, 2007 3:36PM EST
no you weren't heffa. LOL!!

Posted by: 1CHOCL8T on June 20, 2007 3:36PM EST
LMAO...you're itching for a beat down aintcha Jexxy?

Posted by: Jex on June 20, 2007 3:38PM EST
Yeah. I ain't had one in a while.

Posted by: shay on June 20, 2007 3:39PM EST
Jex, how you and your fella doing these days? You haven't talked about him all season.

Posted by: 1CHOCL8T on June 20, 2007 3:39PM EST
I've got a sign-up sheet with your name on it. You're next!!

Posted by: on June 20, 2007 3:45PM EST
Nite ladies, I will tt yall minyana (sp)

Posted by: Jex on June 20, 2007 3:47PM EST
Oddeeyos (sp) Shaun.

Posted by: shay on June 20, 2007 3:48PM EST
Jex, you need help!!!

Posted by: Jex on June 20, 2007 3:49PM EST
Shay I don’t know if I like him anymore. I think we went at it too fast and too furious at the beginning and now that the dust has settled. . .meh.

Posted by: shay on June 20, 2007 3:50PM EST
You guys were a hot item last year. Are you two still "helping each other out"?

Posted by: Jex on June 20, 2007 3:56PM EST
LOL. Yeah, we're helping each other out alright. He just gets on my nerves some times. He plays too much. Always joking.

When I'm yelling at him. . .I mean when I bring something to his attention, he wants to hug me and kiss me and say, "okay, baby. okay."

Stop kissing and listen!

Posted by: shay on June 20, 2007 4:00PM EST
My huspir does that too!! Jokes too much when I am dead serious. Its nerve wrecking so I feel ya on that one.

Posted by: Mitch on June 20, 2007 4:12PM EST
All you Jeff Gordon fans...Jeffy is now a father. He and his wife Ingrid Vandebosch have 7 lb 1 ounce baby girl, Ella Sophia Gordon.

Posted by: flat screen on June 20, 2007 4:20PM EST
THANKS MITCH.....DID HE HAVE THE BABY OR DID SHE!!!!

Posted by: Diane1 on June 20, 2007 4:26PM EST
mitch, is that the same wife? or am i getting my racers mixed up? he is from NC, right?

Posted by: KPH on June 20, 2007 4:27PM EST
LOL @ Flats (Did he have the baby)!

Posted by: Diane1 on June 20, 2007 4:28PM EST
Jex and Mitch, in case you missed my earlier post (6am), here it is again.

THis bet of news wont mean anything to non-Big Brother watchers:

on page 136, both Mike Boogie and Lonnie Moore are listed as two of the hottest bachelors in People Magazine. He may be slightly attractive, but he is "yuck" personified, solely based on his hygiene and behavior problems on the show. No comment on his partner. I will make sure to check out the magazine today. We wonder if they did they just to get people talking or if he paid People to get included. Or maybe lonnie would not agree to be in if Boogie wasnt in.


Posted by: Mitch on June 20, 2007 4:28PM EST
He was born in CA and raised in IN. He lives in Charlotte now. Ingrid is his second wife. His first wife, Brooke, took him for 50% of his net worth which was several million dollars.

Posted by: Diane1 on June 20, 2007 4:30PM EST
Okay, Brooke is the one i remember. I bet he got a pre-nup this time around.

thanks

Posted by: KPH on June 20, 2007 4:30PM EST
Flats I bet that baby girl will grow up and outrun Dale JR.! LOL!

Posted by: Diane1 on June 20, 2007 4:31PM EST
The last time i read a NC newspaper, i thought they were going to work things out. I guess i have not read a NC paper in a while.

Posted by: Mitch on June 20, 2007 4:32PM EST
If he didn't get a pre-nup he is one crazy guy and I don't mean that as in "wild and crazy"

Posted by: Mitch on June 20, 2007 4:33PM EST
Did you read my post from earlier about Josh Gracin possibly becoming the lead singer of Lonestar?

Posted by: flat screen on June 20, 2007 4:35PM EST
LOL @ KPH.....DALE III....THAT WILL BE FUNNY WACHING AS AN OLDER GORDON FAN!!!LOL!!!!

Posted by: KPH on June 20, 2007 4:36PM EST
Brooke should have took him for 50% he was cheating on her with a perfume counter girl for Christ sake!

Posted by: Diane1 on June 20, 2007 4:37PM EST
Someone please break out the violins for the young lady singing the sad song on Oprah. She sounds so sad and sorrowful. She is presently in jail and i am sure she is ready to get out. Oprah gave her the prefect opportunity to prove she was a changed, sorrowful, repentient person. She is one several the last few years that were able to hide a pregnancy, hide the birth, then kill the baby.

She gave birth
went to the kitchen to have dinner
went back to the bedroom,
stabbed the baby
then supposedly she and the bf filled a bag with the baby and rocks
then threw it in the river
The baby was found 6 months later.

Posted by: Diane1 on June 20, 2007 4:39PM EST
Well i did leave that part of the story outr KPH. Thanks for bringing it up. Mitch was the lonestar question for the group or me? I have no clue who lonestar is.

Posted by: flat screen on June 20, 2007 4:41PM EST
DIANE...GIVE THE GIRL A BREAK...SHE SAID SHE WAS SORRY AND WOULD NEVER DO IT AGIAN!I FEEL BAD FOR HER!

Posted by: Diane1 on June 20, 2007 4:46PM EST
The young lady Jessica Coleman and boyfriend were only charged last year. They were able to stay free for 6 years. Her new bf told on her when he saw case on a cold case/tip type episode. She had confided in him. i am sure she had no clue he would turn her in. Then again, you never know.
Moral: Men are like old frigs. They cant keep anything.

Posted by: flat screen on June 20, 2007 4:50PM EST
DIANE....STOP!!!

Posted by: Diane1 on June 20, 2007 4:53PM EST
AT this point i am sure she is saying that and i believe that. But a price unfortunately has to be paid.

Posted by: Rodney Ho on June 20, 2007 5:34PM EST
His overbite is still very much in evidence up close. No Elliot Yamin-type work done. BTW. Full interview with William is in a new entry. I couldn't resist!

Posted by: linnykat on June 20, 2007 5:38PM EST
Diane.... don't you wonder sometimes about people... i mean... i just don't know how a woman can kill her own baby.... was she a druggie? or just selfish?...

uh huh greg, and wifebeaters "are sorry and will never do that again" too. uh huh. yeah. riiiiight!

Posted by: linnykat on June 20, 2007 5:38PM EST
oh, by the way, new blog up, further info on the *ahem* fabulous Mr. Hung.

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