American Idol Lip Singing Scandal

I gotta tell you my dirty little secret.  While I often make myself out to be a celebrity hating basement-humper, there are a few celeb-related indulgences that I share with the likes of Perez Hilton and other self-professed “friends of the stars.” One of my biggest celeb-indulgences is that I do love me some American Idol.  That’s right, every Tuesday and Wednesday night the girlfriend and I snuggle up on the teal micro-fiber couch that I dragged all the way across the country after graduating college (how many guys do you know with a girlfriend who’ll tolerate their beer and other-substance stained college-couch?) and watch hours of teen to 29 year old amateur singers belt out songs in front of a panel of half-brit/half-crazy judges.  Just when I had allowed myself to like something in the reality-television genre, however, comes the news that my beloved contestants on American Idol have been lip signing the group performances?

The LA Times is reporting that “American Idol”-alum Justin Guarini is openly suggesting that the the group numbers on this year’s show are prerecorded.

According to E!, while hosting TV Guide Network’s “Idol Wrap,” Guarini confessed, “Every single year, we cannot stand the group performances. I know they can’t stand it either. And I think what makes [the group performances] even worse now is that they’re lip-synced. They’re really prerecorded now.”  Guarini reportedly went on to say, “You see them kind of do this with the microphone… and they’re not even holding it to their face and they’re laughing.”

Its amazing to me that Justin Guarini (the mop-topped runner up who’s most famous act is staring along side a then non-fat Kelly Clarkson in the worst movie ever made) is the guy to break this story.  Could it be he is just hunting for a little career revival?  I mean, there is no way my beloved idol contestants would ever lip sing.  For shame Justin, for shame.  Go back to your non-existence before you ruin the only show on television outside of “24″ worth watching.