The Series. Recent blog posts Forum. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Edit source History Talk 0. Cancel Save. He is the second and the final Idol contestant to be disqualified from the finals, after the same thing happened to Corey Clark in the second season.
A clip of his rehearsal of "Somewhere Out There", was shown after his removal from the show and would have been his performance that night and a studio version was released on iTunes. As a result of his disqualification, Jones was not allowed to have any further involvement with the show and could not participate in the live finale with the other finalists. On March 14, , Jones was disqualified from American Idol for concealing arrests and outstanding warrants.
He denied that he had concealed his previous arrests, and had admitted that he had been arrested before. Critics accused the show of staging the disqualification to boost ratings.
When asked about speculations that producers had prior knowledge of his criminal past and that the producers were simply out to exploit him on-air, Jones replied that "I haven't even taken my mind into that and why they did what they did, because then I'll drive myself crazy".
A police official in a New Jersey town claimed he was the target of two arrest warrants said that the case wasn't big enough to merit going after him, and that for the show "to expose, embarrass and interrogate a young man without an attorney in front of 40 million viewers was an outrage".
He is also working on an independent movie titled The North Star, about an escaped slave who joins the Quaker abolitionist movement, which will star Jeremiah Trotter.
He also said on his Twitter account that he would be auditioning for The Voice. Jermaine Jones born November 3, is an American singer and actor from Pine Hill, New Jersey, who came in twelfth place after being disqualified from the eleventh season of American Idol. Jones was not originally chosen for the top 24 semifinalist round, but he was called back after the top 24 selection filming, making him the 25th semi-finalist and thirteenth male semi-finalist.
He is 6 feet 8 and a half inches tall and has been dubbed on the show as "The Gentle Giant" due to his height. But I realize now, with the support of my family and friends, that Equal Rights under the law or in this case, under contest rules is something we must always strive for and never take for granted," Jones, who was booted during the Top 12 round, said in an exclusive statement to ABC News.
Jones added that he did not sign up for the show to be "falsely portrayed as a thug or a 'gangsta. Attorney James H. Freeman, who represents the 10 plaintiffs and now Jones, filed a motion for permission to amend the lawsuit today to include the year-old singer who had been dubbed the "gentle giant" for his resonant baritone voice and 6'8" frame. Daniel Petrocelli, the attorney who represents FOX and the show's production company, 19 Entertainment, declined to comment. Jones was previously quoted as saying he wanted no part in the lawsuit, even though the plaintiffs had argued that his disqualification was the most recent example of a "pattern and practice" of discrimination by the show against black males.
The suit points out that 31 percent of all "American Idol" semi-finalists who were black males were disqualified for reasons "unrelated to their singing talent. FOX and the show's producers have denied any discrimination, pointing out that 33 percent of, or four out of the past 12, winners, including last year's Candice Glover, have been black or biracial.
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