Former American Idol contestant found dead outside Paula Abdul's home

Former American Idol contestant found dead outside Paula Abdul's home

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A former contestant on hit US television show American Idol was found dead outside the Los Angeles home of Paula Abdul, the singer who stars as a judge on the series, a report said.

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This shows how insidious the prevailing celebrity culture can be and the most tragic result that this 'culture' can wreak on the most impressionable young people.
Paula Julie Abdul (pronounced /ˈæbduːl/ "AB-dool"; born June 19, 1962)[1] is a Grammy Award-winning American pop singer, dancer, two-time Emmy Award-winning choreographer, actress and television personality.

In the 1980s, Abdul rose from being a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers NBA basketball team to being a sought-after choreographer at the height of the music video era, then to being a Pop-R&B singer with a string of hits in the late-1980s and early-1990s. According to Abdul, she has sold over 53 million records to date. She has scored six number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100, placing her in a tie for fifth among the female solo performers who have reached #1 there. After her initial period of success, she suffered a series of setbacks in her professional and personal life, until she found renewed fame and success in the 2000s as a judge on the television series, American Idol. Abdul was most recently featured in the seventh season of American Idol. She has also been featured as a guest judge in the audition stages on the UK talent show The X Factor.


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