Booted ‘Idol’ gets a lead stage role
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Kicked off the TV talent show “American Idol” because she once worked for an adult-oriented website, Frenchie Davis has landed her first professional lead role.
The big-voiced, full-figured singer from Los Angeles will begin rehearsals Monday in the top role for a production of “Dreamgirls” that is scheduled to play San Jose, Sacramento and Seattle in January and February.
Davis, 24, was one of the 30 contestants on “American Idol” earlier this year and had planned to sing a song from “Dreamgirls” as part of the competition when she was given the boot. Fox said she was fired because she’d worked on an adult-oriented website after her sophomore year at Howard University in fall 1999.
“I disclosed that I posed in lingerie on an adult website to pay my tuition for college,” she said.
“I told them that in November and it wasn’t a problem. In February, they decided to kick me off of the show.”
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