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Will the dreaded `R' word also affect `Malaysian Idol' show? ..BY: By Shareem Amry ..LD: LAST week, the hit TV talent show American Idol was reeling from controversy after viewers voted three of the best singers into the bottom positions. Jennifer Hudson,.

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(From New Straits Times (Malaysia))

LAST week, the hit TV talent show American Idol was reeling from controversy after viewers voted three of the best singers into the bottom positions.

Jennifer Hudson, a fiesty young woman with lungs the size of the Titanic, was eventually booted off the series.

(For those of you wearing pop cultural blinkers, the show lets TV viewers vote for their favourite singer among a group of amateurs. Some of them are stupendously talented, others hilariously bad. The winner - essentially the last person left standing - bags instant fame and a coveted recording contract.) But Hudson's exit left critics yapping in disbelief. …

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