Taylor Hicks says even though Katharine McPhee’s recent tweet about voting seemed to shade him pretty hard … it’s really all in good fun, and for a good cause. We talked to the “American Idol” season 5 winner Wednesday about McPhee tweeting…
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Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Katharine McPhee: Blasted By Taylor Hicks Following Lame Attempt at Shade!
In case you’ve forgotten that there was a point where people actually gave a sh-t about American Idol, allow us to take you back to a simpler time and place, when it was Ryan Seacrest, not Mark Zuckerberg, who decided the outcome of our country’s most hotly-contested elections.
The year was 2006, and Taylor Hicks was making headlines for being young, yet looking old, not unlike how Katharine McPhee is now making headlines for looking young and marrying old.
Anyway, Taylor and Katharine were neck-and-neck throughout their time on the show, but in the end, he came away with the coveted title of American Idol champion.
The win didn’t exactly do wonders for his career, but we’ll get to that later.
McPhee and Hicks are back in the news today thanks to a mild feud that’s revealed some long-simmering tension.
As part of a voter registration drive leading up to November’s midterm elections, McPhee tweeted a photo of herself standing next to Hicks and captioned it with a not-so-subtle jab at her former rival:
“Voting matters,” the actress captioned the pic, complete with upside-down smiley face emoji.
As you can see, Hicks was quick to fire back with a jab of his own, tweeting:
“You’re right, voting DOES matter! But you’re a little late to the party, Kat.”
Not exactly Biggie vs. Pac, but a mildly entertaining beef made all the more amusing by the fact that neither Hicks nor McPhee has been lighting the charts on fire in the years since their Idol season.
In fact, neither of them has scored a hit.
Katharine’s gone on to a more high-profile career thanks to roles on Scorpion and other shows that play ‘round-the-clock in retirement home common rooms.
These days she’s best known for her engagement to David Foster, as well as for her creepy tendency to refer to his daughters as her kids, even though two of them are older than Katharine.
As for Taylor … well, he’s not exactly killing the game, but he has scored a gig hosting something called State Plate on something called the INSP channel.
The funniest part of all of this is that Taylor and Kat’s season introduced the world to Chris Daughtry and Kellie Pickler, both of whom went on to more successful careers.
Perhaps one of those two should sound off on this situation.
“You’re right, Taylor and Kat, voting does matter … but not as much as how you spend your money,” Daughtry could tweet.
Now, that would be a valuable lesson on the inner-workings of both the music industry and American democracy.
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Taylor Hicks Doubles Down "American Idol" Results Were No Secret
Taylor Hicks doubled down saying “American Idol” contestants knew who was getting eliminated because, as he put it, everybody talked … never mind what Nigel Lythgoe says. We got Taylor at LAX on Monday night and told him what…
Friday, June 29, 2018
Taylor Hicks Says "American Idol" Eliminations Were Not a Secret
Former “American Idol” champ Taylor Hicks says he had inside information about who was getting eliminated each week when he was on the show — and says he wasn’t the only one. Taylor was on WJOX radio Friday in Birmingham, AL when he dropped the…
Thursday, March 29, 2018
President Trump Says Farewell to Hope Hicks with Handshakes and a Kiss
President Trump just lost hope in the White House — his trusted aide Hope Hicks left 1600 Penn. with a warm, and slightly awkward goodbye. Trump and his former Communications Director’s Thursday morning photo op featured a kiss on the…
Friday, February 9, 2018
Rob Porter"s Ex-Wife Speaks Out: He WILL Abuse Hope Hicks!
It’s tough to keep track of every scandal that emerges from the gaseous swamp of iniquity that is the Trump White House, but nauseating as the task may be, we try to keep up.
This week’s debacle is one that would’ve resulted in a a march on Washington complete with torches and pitch forks if it happened under the Obama administration, but is currently eliciting less furor among Trump’s base than the time 44 wore a tan suit.
It has to do with Rob Porter, the White House staff secretary who resigned this week amidst allegations that he brutally assaulted both of his ex-wives.
Despite the fact that Porter’s first wife, Colbie Holderness, revealed a photo showing a black eye she’d suffered at the hands of her former husband.
Senior officials were reportedly aware of the allegations against Porter long before they became public, but still defended hm and praised his accomplishments this week:
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly praised Porter as “a man of true integrity and honor, and I can’t say enough good things about him.”
Currently, Porter is dating fellow Hope Hicks, the White House communications director who is known to be one of Trump’s closest advisors.
On Thursday, one of Porter’s battered exes gave a candid interview to CNN in which she cautioned Hicks about Porter’s abusive ways.
“If he hasn’t already been abusive with Hope, he will,” Porter’s second wife, Jennie Willoughby, told the outlet.
“Particularly now that he’s under a lot of stress and scrutiny…I don’t think that he has done the self-reflective work to acknowledge this issue.”
Willoughby was married to Porter for four years and says their time together was characterized by “low grade constant terror.”
“He has not gotten help,” she added.
“I don’t think that he has really taken the time to deconstruct why it is that he behaves this way and until he’s able to do that, I don’t know that he has control over it.”
Willoughby filed an emergency protective order against Porter after their first year of marriage.
She shared her harrowing tale of abuse in a 2017 blog post entitled “Why I Stayed.”
Porter reportedly contacted her and asked her to revise the piece in order to “downplay” the abuse.
He has yet to respond to Willoughby’s warning to Hicks.
We’ll have more on this developing story as more information becomes available.
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Disney Star Adam Hicks" Brother Behind Wheel in 2014 Deadly Crash
Disney star Adam Hicks’ world was crumbling long before his arrest for armed robbery, due to his brother doing time, and his mother passing away … TMZ has learned. Adam’s little brother, Tristan, was the driver in a 2014 car crash in Vegas…
Saturday, January 27, 2018
Disney Star Adam Hicks Has History of Violence
Disney star Adam Hicks is no stranger to violence … he shot himself and allegedly brutalized his girlfriend before allegedly going on an armed robbery spree. Hicks shot himself in the leg last July while he was hanging out with friends. He told…
Friday, January 26, 2018
Disney Star Adam Hicks in Court for Armed Robbery Case, Bail Raised to $550k
Disney star Adam Hicks made his first court appearance for his armed robbery case, and it’s going to be a lot harder for him to bail out of jail. We broke the story … Hicks — star of Disney productions like “Zeke and Luther” and “Lemonade…
Disney Star Adam Hicks Allegedly Caught on Video Committing Armed Robbery
TMZ has obtained video … allegedly showing Disney star Adam Hicks committing armed robbery, casually strolling to his getaway vehicle and driving away. TMZ broke the story … Hicks, who starred in “Zeke and Luther,” “Pair of Kings,” and…
Adam Hicks: Disney Star Arrested After String of Armed Robberies!
It wasn’t that long ago that we openly wondered if Adam Hicks was the next big Disney star.
Hicks was one of the stars of Lemonade Mouth. His costar Hayley Kiyoko is now a successful singer and an LGBT icon. His costar Naomi Scott is a successful actress, playing a Power Ranger in the 2017 film and playing Princess Jasmine in Disney’s new live-action Aladdin.
Adam Hicks, however, has been arrested — for suspicion of committing a string of armed robberies.
25-year-old former Disney star Adam Hicks and a 23-year-old reported to be his girlfriend, Danni Tamburo, have been arrested.
Police believe that the couple committed a series of armed robberies in Burbank, California.
The couple were picked up on Wednesday. Bail for each of them has been set at $ 350,000.
On Thursday, Sgt. Derek Green of Burbank Police told EW that Adam Hicks “was arrested yesterday afternoon in connection with a string of armed street robberies that occurred yesterday morning.”
Reportedly, a 52-year-old man was walking in Burbank when he was accosted by “a male armed with a handgun,” who demanded the man’s wallet.
Police believe that this armed man was Adam Hicks.
The victim got away safely.
But the armed robber wasn’t done. There were three more armed robberies within the same area, which apparently took place while police were investigating the first one.
That’s a lot of gun-pointing and money-stealing in a very brief window of time.
In case you’re wondering what role Danni Tamburo is meant to have played in all of this, police believe that she was driving the vehicle during the robberies.
Based upon the statements from investigators, it sounds like Tamburo drove up on people who were walking alone, Hicks got out and robbed them at gunpoint, and then Hicks jumped back into the car and they drove off in search of the next victim.
That is, again, based upon what police have revealed. It’s all allegations at the moment. But also serious allegations.
Police identified the suspects through their car (a dark-colored Kia, which I would never be able to identify which would make me a terrible witness to a crime) and, once they found the vehicle, that led them to further evidence.
“Officers found property with the vehicle belonging to one of the robbery victims, and additional stolen property in a nearby area.”
Normally, when we talk about Disney stars “gone bad,” people are talking about a few different things.
-Someone who’s developed behavioral problems or perhaps psychiatric issues and might be drinking too much or breaking minor laws.
-Someone who’s a grown adult and no longer dressing like a grown adult and therefore people are shaming that actress for having a body and perhaps even having a sex life.
-Someone who finds religion in a very impolite way, and turns their back on everything and everyone who got them to where they are in the world and also on their fans because their love for Scientology or Jesus or Buddhism now somehow makes them hate everything else.
-Somebody who’s just being rowdy and entitled and a prima donna because they were a big star in their tweens.
What Adam Hicks is accused of doing is … something of an outlier.
Armed robberies by former actors happen, but they’re usually years and years after that person last acted.
(A whole bunch of former Power Rangers actors have ended up dead or in prison, to the point where people joke about there having been a curse)
But Adam Hicks is still on a show, Freakish. It’s a Hulu original and the second season premiered … three months ago.
Some shows pay better than others, but why and how is he so hard up for cash that he’s allegedly robbing people when he’s unlikely to make more than a few hundred dollars off of it?
We have to imagine that there’s more to this than we know.
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Disney Star Adam Hicks Arrested for Armed Robbery
Disney star Adam Hicks has been arrested for armed robbery … TMZ has learned. Hicks, who has starred in “Zeke and Luther,” “Pair of Kings” and “Lemonade Mouth” allegedly committed 4 or 5 armed robberies … this according to law enforcement…
Thursday, January 4, 2018
New Book, Donald Trump told Hope Hicks She was "Greatest Piece of Tail" Lewandowski Ever Got
The new book ‘Fire and Fury’ is loaded with explosive allegations involving Donald Trump and company, including one in which candidate Trump allegedly told his current Communications Director Hope Hicks that she was the “greatest piece of tail”…
Monday, June 12, 2017
Hope Hicks: Donald Trump"s Girlfriend? The Internet Thinks So
Though it’s easy to forget among the numerous scandals and allegations of treason surrounding the Trump administration, Donald Trump’s Presidency has also been filled with suggestions that he and his wife clearly aren’t getting along.
Well, it looks like the internet has decided that he has a girlfriend, and they even think that they’ve figured out who.
So, when you can’t keep track of who some star is dating or you totally know but you just can’t remember the name, you just pick up your phone or bring up Google and say: “Charlie Sheen girlfriend.”
And that’s the way to do it, by the way. Please don’t make search engine algorithms try to make sense of “Who is that actor Charlie Sheen dating again? I forget” It is 2017 and people shouldn’t be typing sentences into Google unless they’re looking to match song lyrics or root out plagiarism.
(His girlfriend is Julia Stambler by the way, but that’s neither here no there)
Well, Hope Hicks is Donald Trump’s 28-year-old White House Director of Strategic Communications, and as reported by Inquisitr, people Googling information about her seem to regard her as Donald Trump’s girlfriend.
Not everyone, but enough that Google’s infamous suggested searches — the autofill function — seems eager to suggest it.
A lot of people don’t know much about Hope.
Our first reaction to Hope Hicks’ name was to wonder what it’s like to have a name like “Hope” and work in an administration that embodies despair.
But on second thought, we realized that her name makes sense for the Trump White House, given Trump’s base demographics.
This is right up there with an NSA whistleblower named “Reality Winner.”
Like, if someone were just sitting down and writing all of this for a TV show, they’d probably need to go back and make the names more realistic.
But, though Google Trends says that there wasn’t really an uptick in searches for Hope Hicks until a couple of months ago, she’s been with the administration since the beginning.
In fact, she was at the notably undercrowded inauguration, seen alongside Kellyanne Conway — both dressed as very different flavors of supervillains.
If Kellyanne dressed as a supervillain who sends ransom notes in a jack-in-the-box, Hope dressed as a supervillain who turns her enemies to stone.
The thing is that we can’t find any real indications that Hope Hicks is anything more than Trump’s employee.
But we think that one factor in making people suggest this is that her looks are … above average.
Well above average — she was a model for Ralph Lauren.
She does do her makeup like she’s 40, but that’s not at all uncommon for affluent conservative women. Sometimes even when they’re still teenagers.
And that’s totally her right; she can wear makeup however she likes. But she still looks like somebody’s 28-year-old stepmom.
Trump is notoriously picky, but when viewed alongside racist elf Jeff Sessions and Steve Bannon, who looks like every male NPC in The Witcher, it’s easy to see how she might look appealing to someone like Trump.
Add in the apparent marital tension going on in the Trump family, hundreds of millions of people keeping up with news of the administration, and time … and you’re going to see some people speculate.
By reputation, Trump is as womanizing as he is orange.
We don’t just mean the infamous “grab ‘em by the p—y” tape or the fact that he’s had three wives … but those are major factors.
Some Twitter users have noted that Hope Hicks’ office is fairly close to his, and suggested that an improper relationship would explain that.
Even if it turned out that Hope Hicks is genuinely Trump’s girlfriend, or mistress, or whatever, we’re not going to kid ourselves and imagine that the base that elected him will turn on him for it.
Even though they are almost all the same people who acted scandalized by the Monica Lewinsky scandal back in the ’90s.
This administration has a massive political advantage, in that the core of Trump’s voters don’t seem to mind anything that he says or does, and it’s hard to think of that changing easily or soon.
As far as we know, no one actually has any evidence that Hope and Trump are seeing each other.
Ugh, and we do not want to think about what form that “evidence” would take.
If that really is what’s going on … we guess we hope she’s into watersports, huh?
Sorry; we made it worse.
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Taylor Hicks Says Chris Daughtry Not "Idol" Judge Material "Cause He Didn"t Win (VIDEO)
Taylor Hicks is definitely NOT on board with Chris Daughtry being considered for an “American Idol” judge and his reason is simple — he’s a loser. Taylor’s point is more that Chris didn’t WIN ‘Idol’ … like he did back in season 5,…
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