SOLVED!
[BlindGossip] Which competitor on a reality competition series is going to get eliminated before her real background comes to light?
There’s plenty of dirt there, but the most interesting are the three past marriages she tries to hide, and a questionable performance for a very controversial figure. It’s the latter that will get her booted before she makes the producers look really bad and tarnishes the show. And she won’t be able to play victim here, because her exes are ready to step forward and there is video tape of the questionable performance.
Naturally, she’ll wail and sob when it happens, but even her crocodile tears won’t be enough to save her.
Competitor:
Reality Show:
SOLVED!
It’s Stacy Francis from X Factor!
Stacy parlayed her persona as a poor, abused woman who never got a chance to turn her passion for singing into a successful X Factor contestant.
The truth is that she’s been married multiple times, has plenty of professional experience, and is just a weepy mess.
However, once the producers found out that she had cozied up to Louis Farrakhan AND is a practicing Scientologist who performs at Scientology events (including Tom Cruise’s birthday party), there was no way they were going to declare her the winner.
So, Stacy Francis was never going to make it to the finals of X Factor, but the judges had to wait until she stumbled just a bit so they could give her the boot. Her off-key performance was the perfect excuse.
By the way, Astro won’t win, either. He may be a talented rapper, but he’s not a talented vocalist, and the judges will certainly pick a commercially salable vocalist as the winner of the first American X Factor.
From The Village Voice:
Sandlofer tells the Voice that not only has Francis lied about domestic violence in her relationship with him, but he says that Perez Hilton is correct in his complaints that Francis has been untruthful about her extensive professional singing career before she came to X Factor.
We had a conversation yesterday with Sandlofer, a music producer, who told the Voice about his marriage to Francis, why it was annulled, and why she then turned to Scientology, an organization she has been heavily involved with ever since.
…In fact, she was a regular Broadway performer, had put out a solo album, and has sung backup for Madonna, Chaka Khan, and even shared billing with Adam Lambert.
Read the whole article here.
From TheHollywoodReporter:
From Day 1, Stacy Francis was a frontrunner for the inaugural X Factor title. When the single mother of two children appeared on the series premiere, she was filled with insecurity. But, she won the audience over with her story of self-doubt, telling executive producer and judge Simon Cowell, “I don’t want to die with this music in me,” and then releasing a rendition of “Natural Woman” that brought the audience to its feet.
Over the course of the competition, she never really took her eye off the prize. She did, however, seem to have a conflict of identity. It didn’t help that she found herself in a storm or criticism that tried to make her out to be a fraud.“It comes with it,” Francis says of the controversy after Thursday’s show. “You know, you have to build a thick skin. And this show has taught me how to be more of a fighter. You got to fight back. You can’t be a punk. You have to get yourself through it and you have to fight back. I didn’t always do that before.”
On Thursday night, Francis found herself fighting one more time to stay in the competition with fellow contestant, Astro. And despite the M.C.’s lack of sportsmanship, the judges voted 3-1 in favor of eliminating her.
Did you watch this week’s performance later? If so, what were your thoughts?
Francis: Yes, I did. I was off-key, because I couldn’t hear the music. What happens is when you’re in there, the audience is going really crazy. And if you don’t have an in-ear monitor, which is something you put in your ear to hear the music, you can’t hear the music. And I couldn’t hear it. The audience is going crazy, screaming, and I couldn’t hear the music at all. And I didn’t have an in-ear monitor either. So, the song was off-key in the beginning. And I don’t think I found my grounding until about the middle of it and it was too late at that point.
Lots of you got this one right. SayItAintSo was first. Congratulations, Say!