antonella barba

To all you people that want to get into show business! Be careful of the pictures and videos that you let people take of you. It may come back to haunt you. Pictures and videos that you forgot about years ago or were too drunk to remember will find their way on the Internet when you strike it big.
Antonella Barba was first seen on television at the New York auditions of Idol in a January 2007 episode. She auditioned with her friend Amanda Collucio, after Collucio sang her rendition of Patsy Cline's "Crazy" Barba took center stage and belted out a smooth performance of Deniece Williams' "Free." Paula dubbed Antonella "fantastic" and Simon advised her "when someone is down on the floor kick them". Nevertheless, the judges praised her performance and liked it better than her friend's who had claimed she had vocal lessons, eventually both received golden ticket passes to Hollywood. Barba made it into the top 24 but her friend was cut before the top 40.Number one was the scandal over the racy pictures of the New Jersey singer that were leaked during her bid to make the top 12, which, for a minute, made Barba one of the most Googled celebrities on the Internet, beating such perennial search queens as Britney Spears and Anna Nicole Smith. Number two was that the media firestorm that followed actually punched a tiny hole in the steely, seemingly impenetrable heart of judge Simon Cowell, who told Barba that he felt bad for her when she was eliminated a little more a year ago during the last week of semifinals.