The American Idol curse has struck again!

We're hearing that 2004 champ Fantasia Barrino has just been dopped by her management team.

Fantasia still has her contract with her record label, though probably not for much longer.

The singer was repped by 19 Entertainment, the company owned by AI's Simon Fuller.

Do people still care about Fantasia?

She obviously didn't care about her fans. Bitch missed so many performances while on Broadway's The Color Purple.

We're surprised Tasia hadn't beem dumped by her label or management sooner!

Fantasia was also set to perform tonight at Milwaukee's Summerfest concert, but instead has been replaced by Musiq Soulchild.

Thank goodness!

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A musicians union has filed a federal lawsuit against the producers of American Idol claiming musicians were underpaid because the show's live music was re-recorded for reruns, according to new reports.

Idol makes soooooo much money!

Why are they trying to be cheapy Mimi?????

The lawsuit alleges that the contract for the musicians working for the show says that they should be paid royalties for rebroadcasts of the show.

The producers are required to pay 75 percent of scale to musicians who appear in the original show and rehearsals, plus 10 percent of that pay to a union pension fund, with decreasing percentages for each rebroadcast, according to court papers.

In 2007, the producers started cutting out the show's soundtrack and using different musicians to re-record new music for the past-season highlights show American Idol Rewind, the lawsuit said.

The court papers say the musicians' union was not informed of the recording.

Phone messages left Thursday night with Idols reps weren't returned.

Their lawyers probably told them to keep their mouths shut!

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The downwards trend is over!

Though ratings for American Idol have been much lower this year, compared to previous seasons, last night's finale was up 4% from last year's finale.

A whopping 30.6 million people tuned in Wednesday night.

Still, it's not all good news for Idol.

Viewership for this year's finale was down amongst the highly-coveted 18 to 49 year-olds.

And, last night’s season finale was down 16% from the 36.4 million viewers who watched the season finale two years ago.

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Who won American Idol????

CLICK HERE to find out and leave your thoughts on the season finale.

Was the right winner chosen???

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The new American Idol is going to be crowned in just a few hours, but, before then, we wanna know…..

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They're back!

One of the judges on Bulgarian Idol, the Paula Abdul of the show, has done a remix of the infamous Ken Lee song AND she performed it live on this week's show!

It's brills!

Mariah must be having a good laugh!

CLICK HERE to check out Ken Lee - The Remix!

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Love can move mountains!

According to TV's Extra, David Cook's ailing brother will be in the audience to watch his brother compete in the final American Idol two shows of the season, tonight and Wednesday.

Adam Cook, who is fighting brain cancer, reportedly flew in to LA Monday morning accompanied by a medic nurse.

Due to Adam's battle with cancer, it was unexpected and unlikely that he would be attending the American Idol finale shows.

Simon Cowell picked Cook to win Idol this season.

Do U agree????

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There's always musical theater to turn to!

Ex-American Idol champ Taylor Hicks is heading to the Great White Way — just like fellow Idol alums Fantasia Barrino (The Color Purple), Clay Aiken (Spamalot), Diana DeGarmo (Hairspray), Frenchie (Rent) and Constantine Maroulis (The Wedding Singer).

Hicks is set to join the cast of Grease as Teen Angel starting June 6th.

He says he plans to add "soulful flavor" to his performance of "Beauty School Dropout." Gag.

The flashy role, he said, is "a classic fit for a classic performer."

He just called himself a classic performer!!!!!!!!!

By "classic" he means "hasbeen"!

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