Here's some TV Guide trivia for you: Popstars grad Rosanna Tavarez used to do On-Air with Ryan Seacrest on the same Hollywood set that's now used by TV Guide Channel for her own series, Idol Chat. The weekly talk show (Thursdays, 8 pm/ET) features her and American Idol alumna Kimberly Caldwell dishing this season's singers. This week, the buzz was all about Anwar Robinson.It seems like many Idol fans decided it was about time the Zenlike (read: kinda boring) crooner hit the road. "I wouldn't necessarily say that it was about time," Tavarez disagrees, "because the other two contestants in the bottom three could also very well have left. It think it would have been a more interesting competition had they [voted off] Scott Savol or Anthony Fedorov. If you look at those three, Anwar was the strongest singer. It wasn't necessarily 'about timread more
While other American Idol contestants pout and tear up during Simon Cowell's put-downs, braided Jersey boy Anwar Robinson kept a Zenlike (read: kinda boring) calm throughout it all. Did he meditate, drink a lot of green tea, pilfer treats from Paula Abdul's medicine cabinet or what?
"[There's] no additives to this," Robinson says. "This is all 100 percent natural.
"A lot of it's my upbringing and a lot of it is faith," he continues. "You just know your place. You know where you stand, you know what you're up against and you keep reality at the helm of your perspective."
While we're keepin' it real, did Robinson — who's a gospel singer as well as a music teacher — ever turn a critical ear to his own performances? "Most definitely," he says. "On stage while you're doing things, it's kind of hard to be split between the adjudicator and the performer. It's likeread more
Here's some TV Guide trivia for you: Popstars grad Rosanna Tavarez used to do On-Air with Ryan Seacrest on the same Hollywood set that's now used by TV Guide Channel for her own series, Idol Chat. The weekly talk show (Thursdays, 8 pm/ET) features her and American Idol alumna Kimberly Caldwell dishing this season's singers. This week, the buzz was all about Anwar Robinson.Clearly, many Idol fans decided it's about time Zen-like (read: kinda boring) crooner hit the road. "It wouldn't necessarily say that it was about time," Tavarez disagrees, "because the other two contestants in the bottom three could very well also have left. It think it would have been a more interesting competition had they [voted off] Scott Savol or Anthony Fedorov. If you look at those three, Anwar was the strongest singer. It wasn't necessarily about time for him,read more