Katy Perry & Kara DioGuardi Spar During ‘Idol’ LA Auditions
First Published: January 27, 2010 12:33 PM EST Credit: FOX
Caption Guest judge Katy Perry joins Randy Jackson, Kara DioGuardi and Simon Cowell for ‘American Idol’ auditions in Los Angeles during Season 9LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- During the search for America’s next great singer, a new mini-Hollywood feud started to boil.
On Tuesday night’s “American Idol,” judge Kara DioGuardi and guest judge Katy Perry exchanged a few verbal jabs at each other from behind the judges’ table.
The two disagreed over several of the contestants during the Los Angeles auditions, but the claws came out when Kara began mocking Katy’s hit song “I Kissed A Girl.”
“Please stop before I throw my Coke in your face,” a seemingly un-amused Katy told Kara.
“We used to be friends!” Kara pleaded to one of the contestants over her exchange with Katy. “What happened to girl power?!”
The night’s final contestant – Chris Golightly, who shared his emotional story of a childhood spent in the foster care system, before performing “Stand By Me” for the judges – also caused a spat between the two newfound frenemies.
“You are one of my favorites today, if not my favorite,” Kara told the “Idol” hopeful. “You’re the kind of kid who has just enough talent and just enough of a story and pain and stuff that you’ve gone through in your life to really connect with it, and I think you’re only going to get better.”
However, the “Hot N Cold” pop diva had a different take on Chris’ audition and Kara’s evaluation.
“This is not a Lifetime movie, sweetheart,” she barbed. “You have to have talent.”
Eventually, Katy did soften her stance, giving Chris a “small” yes, as did Simon Cowell, with Kara and Randy Jackson offering a more convincing approval, sending the singer on to the Hollywood rounds.
Pop rocker Avril Lavigne joined the judges for the first half of the show, and on Wednesday night, Joe Jonas and Neil Patrick Harris will take turns at the judges’ table as auditions move to Dallas.
This is the last week of “Idol” auditions before two weeks of Hollywood Week shows begin next week, with new judge Ellen DeGeneres permanently joining the judges’ table.
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