Simon Cowell’s “not so sure” take on our American Idol

After last night’s “upset”, seems like one of the judges is still not so sure about our newly crowned American Idol.

We already heard Simon mention more than once that  Kris Allen wasn’t “good enough” to compete in American Idol’s finale,  and Simon Cowell is apparently still not so sure that he deserves to have been crowned the show’s eighth-season winner.

Kris Allen  was crowned Idol’s eighth-season winner defeating Adam Lambert.

Cowell talked about his feelings on the winner; which we all know  he is not shy about , this morning during a radio show broadcast with Idol’s host Ryan Seacrest.

“[Kris] is probably the right winner in terms of being a nice guy,” Cowell told Ryan “[But] was he the best singer in the competition? No.”

“You know what my feeling on the show is,” Cowell added. “I mean he’s popular. If you allow America to vote, you live with the vote. I wouldn’t have said he was the best singer in the competition, no. He was like a little puppy dog.”

Seacrest then asked Cowell to rank Allen in comparison to American Idol’s seven previous winners, causing Cowell to just laugh and pose the same question back to Seacrest.

“I’d probably put him in the middle,” Seacrest told Cowell.

“In the middle?” Cowell laughed. “Okay, who’s below him?”

“Ruben,” Seacrest said, referring to second-season Idol champion Ruben Studdard.

“He’s below him?” Cowell asked.

“Yes,” said Seacrest.

“Okay, [who else]?” Cowell replied.

“Who’s won the show, I can’t remember!” Seacrest said.

“Taylor Hicks,” Cowell offered, referring the fifth-season Idol champion that Simon  has repeatedly has said to be  the show’s worst winner.

“[Yes], Taylor Hicks!” Seacrest said.

“Okay, well he’s above him,” Cowell replied.

Last week, Cowell’s remark was  that Kris was “not a good enough singer to compete with Adam” in the finale.  Cowell said that Danny Gokey  was “the only one who can compete with Adam on vocals.”

Once Danny was voted off Kris was left to battle it out with Adam.

“Listen, congratulations Kris. Anyone that gets the public vote, good luck to them,” Cowell said later in his interview with Seacrest.

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Paula Abdul finally admits to addiction!

After 12 years of addiction and use of pain meds Paula Abdul, who turns 47 this month, is no longer dependent on pain medication.  In a recent issue of Ladies’ Home Journal Paula tells about her addiction and dependency as well as describing the withdrawal process which she begin around Thanksgiving of last year when she check her self into a La Costa Resort and Spa, in Carlsbad, CA..  Paula explains:

“I could have killed myself . . . Withdrawal — it’s the worst thing. I was freezing cold, then sweating hot, then chattering and in so much pain, it was excruciating. But at my very core, I did not like existing the way I had been.”

It was quite obvious by her actions over the years that there was something just not right with Paula.  Her slurring of words, outbursts, melt-downs, and dazed and confused episodes.  I am glad that she has finally been able to overcome such a horrific situation that many can’t even admit to.

Her issues began at 17 when she was a cheerleader and suffered some injuries of which she refused to have surgery.  Then in 1991 she broke her leg during a dance routine and then a car accident a year later.  In 1993 the saga continued.  Paula was in an airplane crash that left her partially paralyzed and this required her to have 15 spinal surgeries.  She still continued with her performances using addictive painkillers and Chinese medicine to  try to relieve her pain.  Then in 2005, Paula was diagnosed with reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome which caused her to use a highly potent   pharmaceutical patch along with muscle relaxers and nerve pills.

Paula denies that she ever did an episode of American Idol “high”, claiming that her “weird” and “loopy” comments are more of a result from sleepless nights from the chronic pain.