'American Idol' Alum Chris Sligh Says COVID-19 Led to 'Double Pneumonia'

Scotty McCreery is paying tribute to a friend who passed away this week in a car accident.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorProducer and music supervisor Randall Poster has partnered with Loudon Wainwright III and big band leader/Prohibition-era scholar Vince Giordano for “I’d Rather Lead a Band,” a new project based around the Great American Songbook.Poster has provided music for over 100 films including “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “Boyhood” and “Skyfall.” His earliest credits featured on 1995’s “Kids” directed by Larry Clark and “The Crossing Guard” directed by Sean Penn.Earlier this

Ryan Seacrest’s best friend is his Labrador retriever, Georgia, and the TV host can thank “American Idol” creator Simon Fuller for his beloved pet.

Pop singer-songwriter Emmanuel Kelly appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Show today (July 8) to share with host Kelly Clarkson his full-circle American Idol moment.

Christian singer and former “American Idol” finalist Chris Sligh revealed that he developed pneumonia after contracting COVID-19. In a statement provided to Fox News, Sligh explained that he was made aware that a co-writer had been exposed to COVID-19.Two days later he tested positive for the coronavirus after exhibiting symptoms.

Chris Sligh is battling a coronavirus diagnosis.

Chris Sligh, a finalist in season six of American Idol, is battling with COVID-19-related pneumonia.The contemporary Christian singer on Monday posted a picture of himself appearing unwell in a medical facility, with the caption, “My world right now. Covid suuuuucks.” My world right now.

Brian Mansfield “American Idol” finalist and contemporary Christian singer Chris Sligh has COVID-19 and has developed pneumonia. Sligh, who finished tenth on the 2007 season of “Idol,” shared a picture of himself in a Nashville-area healthcare facility on Instagram late Monday, but was back at home Tuesday night.Sligh began exhibiting symptoms in late June that worsened over the weekend.

Talking Heads drummer Chris Frantz has said it “would be nice” if the iconic New York band reunited.The band broke up in 1991, and have only played together once since, for their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 2002.Speaking to Rolling Stone about his new biopic Remain In Love, Frantz says he hasn’t seen frontman David Byrne face-to-face in 17 years, and wasn’t invited to see Byrne’s American Utopia stage show on Broadway, which ran across 2019.“We communicate via email from time

Paula Abdul is quarantined with her dogs amid the coronavirus pandemic, but if she had to pick a former American Idol costar to self-isolate with she couldn’t choose just one.“I would love to be quarantined with them, have one week with the whole gang back together again, it would be really fun,” the former American Idol judge, 58, exclusively told Us Weekly on a recent episode of Quarantine Confessions while promoting her partnership with Voltaren.Abdul served on the judging panel of the

Woody Allen’s film “A Rainy Day in New York” was expected to be released more than two years ago. However, with the filmmaker’s past coming back to haunt him with allegations of sexual abuse still being lobbed his way, combined with his comments about #MeToo, ‘Rainy Day’ was dropped by Amazon Studios and has yet to be released in North America.

released “A Rainy Day in New York,” starring Timothée Chalamet and Elle Fanning, digitally on June 5 in the U.K. and has set a July 27 home video and DVD release.

Hello Upper East Siders, let's travel back in time to 2007 when Gossip Girl stars Penn Badgley and Blake Lively were in a relationship. Yes, we are aware that the two stars have moved on.

Taylor Swift has spoken out about the US census, saying it erases transgender and non-binary people.The census collects data on every person living within the United States and its five territories, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa.During a speech for Pride Live’s celebration of Stonewall Day, Swift called out the makers of the census for only offering two gender options.

The world premiere of Woody Allen’s latest movie, Rifkin’s Festival, will open, out of competition, the 68th edition of the San Sebastian Festival on Sept. 18, organizers unveiled on Thursday.

festival announced Thursday.The romantic comedy, written and directed by Allen, stars Elena Anaya (“Wonder Woman”), Louis Garrel (“An Officer and a Spy”), Gina Gershon (“The Insider”), Sergi López (“Pan’s Labyrinth”), Wallace Shawn (“Marriage Story”) and Christoph Waltz (“Inglourious Basterds”).Allen shot the film last summer in and around San Sebastian, a town located in the mountainous Basque region of northern Spain.