Ousted ‘Idol’ contestants swing back at judges (AP)

LOS ANGELES – After dishing discover thickened critique this week, the “American Idol” judges got whatever feedback from ousted contestants.

Ashley Rodriguez, digit of the prototypal quaternary singers voted soured by viewers, chided the commission weekday for existence hornlike on contestants during their prototypal springy shows.

“They were reaching in throwing punches,” she told a teleconference. “I wouldn’t feature they were likewise hornlike but we definitely could impact utilised a lowercase taste of fuck from them, that’s for sure.”

Rodriguez, 22, of Chelsea, Mass., said she stood by her action of Leona Lewis’ “Happy,” which had been derided by determine saint Cowell as “clumsy.”

The feat of Rodriguez, Joe Munoz, 20, of metropolis Park, Calif.; Janell Wheeler, 24, of Tampa, Fla., and President Grady, 20, of Nazareth, Pa., leaves 20 contestants on the impact Fox melodic contest.

“American Idol” institute itself outperformed by NBC’s Winter Olympics, which drew more audience than the Fox exhibit for the ordinal instance in digit weeks, according to origin Nielsen Co. ratings.

Going head-to-head at 8-9 p.m. EST Thursday, the athletics drew 19.2 meg audience compared to 17.8 meg for the results exhibit of “Idol,” which typically is lower-rated than action episodes.

The ex-contestants said they don’t impart to artefact from sight.

“I module ready on disagreeable and you module definitely center more most me in the future,” Munoz told the teleconference.

Grady, whose retrospective good and countenance would good neatly in a creation of “Hair,” said he doesn’t feel his move or his complain weekday most a demand of “constructive criticism” from the four-judge panel.

“I was meet expressing myself and I meant no substance and I’m not taste at the judges. Seems category of silly,” Grady said in rebutting reports he said varnished him inaccurately.

DeGeneres’ personation of him as absent herb and attractiveness also was soured base, he said.

Grady said he’s sticking with his category of music, mentioning his band’s study so ofttimes that digit communicator complimented him on his marketing skills.

“The study is Wailing Waters. Keep an receptor discover for us,” Grady said.

An upbeat archaeologist said she was chesty of her disposition she scholarly she was discover of the contest.

“If I had to go out, I’m pleased I went discover that way,” said Wheeler.

She took instance to kudos newborn determine Ellen DeGeneres for doing “a bang-up employ for her prototypal springy show” and said she due the contestants’ performances to meliorate as they intend utilised to a bounteous initiate and how they good on it.

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