American Idol season 7 alum, Jason Castro has big news!  He and his wife, Mandy Mayhall are having a baby girl in August!

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“I am excited to announce that there will be a new addition to the Castro family!  We just found out yesterday that it is going to be a girl! haha that makes me laugh… what am i going to do with a sweet little girl?! probably just smile alot… i cannot wait!!!”

Congrats to the happy, growing family!

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Steven Tyler was at Urth Cafe eating lunch with friends in Los Angeles when the paparazzi decided to capture the moment and he wasn't pleased… so, he gave them the bird.  Ha!  I love it.  I love this man.  He is too fabulous on American Idol!  I think I'd be annoyed with having my pictures taken while I was stuffing my face too.

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You just have to love him though.  He is so quirky and brings a whole new light to Idol.  I hope he continues next season!

What do you think?

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American Idol Season 9 winner, Lee DeWyze has turned 25 and he celebrated by spending time with his fans and by creating a custom milkshake over at Millions Of Milkshakes inside the Westfield Culver City Mall.

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He named his yummy concoction the “Freezie Dewyeezy.” So what’s in it?  Butterfinger candy bars, bananas and peanuts. Yum!

To top it off, 50% of the proceeds will be donated to Feeding America.  Very, very cool! I love Lee.  I adored him the entire season of American Idol (last year) and I cried when he won.  He is an amazing guy and I wish only the best for him.  There should be more guys like this in the world.

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How fitting that one of American Idol’s greatest success stories, Carrie Underwood, teamed up with new American Idol judge (and rock legend) Steven Tyler for a very hip version of Walk This Way at last night’s Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas.

Carrie looks to be really enjoying rocking out with Steven. And to a standing audience no less. Enjoy the video!

Funny how these things come out in the wash, isn’t it?  One of the castoffs from this week’s American Idol episode, Naima Adedapo has some little skeletons coming out of the closet.

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Dave Fuhr from Naima’s hometown in Milwaukee was a manager of strip club Rickey’s.  She used to dance there.  He told Star when he saw her on Idol the first time,

“I knew she looked familiar.… Then I realized it was probably the same young woman named Naima who danced at Rickey’s for just a couple weeks sometime in 2005.”

Another dancer said,

“I knew her as soon as I saw her on Idol, and she’s just as pretty now. I think she danced at Rickey’s to make some extra cash while she was going to college. It wasn’t that risqué — it was topless, but we had to wear pasties!”

A rep for Fox declined to comment… which always makes me think that there is truth to the story.  I for some reason cannot see her as a stripper.  Too weird!

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Last night on American Idol, the Top 11 were cut to the Top 9 thanks to Casey Abrams getting the save last week.  The bottom three were Naima Adedapo, Thia Megia, and Paul McDonald.  I was a bit surprised that Paul was there, I thought that it was going to be Stefano Langone.  But it didn’t really matter because Naima and Thia were the ones to go and that is exactly who I thought would be voted off.

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During the show we got to see two guest musical performances.  The first was by Idol Alum/Winner Fantasia Barrino and the next was Jamie Foxx and Will.i.am.

If you missed out, you can watch their videos now:

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Last week the judges on American Idol used their only save of the season on Casey Abrams when he received the lowest number of votes.  It was shocking to see him in the bottom three, much less the one to have been given his walking papers.  So it wasn’t that much of a surprise to see the judges use the save on him.  But, seeing how early in the game it is, the choice was seen as a bit crazy by a lot of people.

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So Jennifer Lopez talked to Ryan Seacrest on his radio show to explain why they did it.

“We knew that it was kind of a radical decision because it was so early in the season, but to be quite honest…that is one decision that I haven’t lost one ounce of sleep over.  [Casey] is one of our most dynamic performers. He’s so interesting and so talented,” Lopez told Seacrest. “I know it’s crazy, but we had to do it!  Now it’s up to America. I really feel we put 11 amazing contestants in front of them, and now it’s [about] who their favorite is, who’s going to be their American Idol.  I didn’t realize I was going to fall in love with the contestants the way I have and feel for them the way I do…[but] I feel good putting [the voting] in [viewers'] hands.”

So will Casey survive tonight’s double elimination?  Or will America stand firm on their choice from a week ago?  Tune in tonight to find out!

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Simon Cowell‘s debut of X Factor in the U.S. hasn’t even aired a single episode, and it’s already breaking records.  Yesterday was the first day of auditions and they kicked off in Los Angeles.

It just happened to be a bigger turnout than any other talent show audition ever to be held down there!

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The freeway was totally gridlocked and people were sleeping overnight on the street in hopes of getting a chance to impress.   By 9 AM, more than 18,000 people had lined up for the first rounds of auditions.

“The auditionees started from ages 12 all the way to people into their eighties or nineties,” an eyewitness tells Life & Style. The giant parking lot at the LA sports arena was packed full of people in their bid for the 5 million dollar prize!

It is a huge prize.  This is going to be huge.  Like American Idol huge.  Simon Cowell is gold.