Source: ‘Idol’ Stripper Hernandez Won’t Be Disqualified
LOS ANGELES David Hernandez won’t be down of his chance to vie on “American Idol.”
The 24-year-old from Glendale, Ariz., in one case worked as an adult entertainer at Dick’s Cabaret in Phoenix, coming into court fully nude and acting lap dances for the club’s “largely male” patronage, strip club director Gordy Bryan said the AP on Monday.
In 2003, semifinalist Frenchie Davis was off from “Graven image” because of her visual aspect on an adult Web site, but Antonella Barba stayed in the contest last twelvemonth after lively photos of her came up on the Internet. The beginning who confirmed that Hernandez will rest said Davis’ state of affairs was unlike because of the site’s age-themed content.
Fox and the manufacturers declined to point out on Hernandez, who was scheduled to execute a vocal from the ’80s in a live telecast Tuesday with the former male vocalizers as the semifinalists are narrowed down this hebdomad to the final 12 protesters. All the vocalists, including Hernandez, have existed unavailable for interviews.
Dick’s Cabaret managing director Bryan told he was cognizant that Hernandez was a singer, but that Hernandez never sang at the ball club. Bryan told he now considers Hernandez stopped up working at the slip club on Sept. 30, 2007, because of his engagement in “Graven image.”
Hernandez, who in the beginning auditioned for the display in San Diego on July 30, 2007, has neverred been cited to as a sprigger or former sprigger during the contest. Last hebdomad, he earned rave reviews from the Judges after his public presentation of The Temptations’ “Dada Was a Rolling Stone.”