David Hernandez‚ a 24-year-old finalist from Glendale, Arizona, once worked as a stripper at Dick’s Cabaret, appearing fully nude and giving lap dances to the club’s “mostly male” clientele, the Associated Press reports.

“He had the look and the type that people like, so he made pretty good money here,” club manager Gordy Bryan tells the AP.

Hernandez — who never sang at the club — worked there for three years until last September. “He never renewed his licensing with the state, so he hasn’t
been on my roster since then,” said Bryan, adding that he believes Hernandez quit to focus on Idol.

Rumors of his stripper past — along with photos of a scantily clad Hernandez working as a bartender at a gay club — first surfaced on Idol fan site VoteForTheWorst.com.

Still no word on whether Hernandez will be be given the boot.

In 2003, Frenchie Davis was disqualified for appearing topless on an adult Web site. But Antonella Barba remained on the show last year even though racy photos of her hit the Internet.

Hernandez is set to perform with the other male contestants on tonight’s show.

Taylor Hicks might have won “American Idol,” but he doesn’t have his record deal anymore.

The soul singer, who claimed the “Idol” title in 2006, has apparently been dropped by J Records, a label within Sony-BMG, which signs the show’s singers.

“Taylor is going to record on his own for the next album,” said J Records publicist Liz Morentin, who did not give further details regarding Hicks.

Another “Idol” winner — Ruben Studdard of season two — left his contract with J Records late last year, but continues his contract with 19 Entertainment, the company managed by “Idol” creator Simon Fuller.

Studdard is now at work on an upcoming album, but it will not be distributed by J Records, Morentin said. Studdard’s previous album, 2006’s “The Return,” has sold only 236,000 copies.

Roger Widynowski, spokesman for 19 Entertainment, did not immediately return phone and e-mail messages seeking comment on Hicks’ situation.

Hicks’ self-titled, post-”Idol” album, released in December 2006, debuted at No. 2 on the charts. In the weeks after it was issued, however, the disc slid down the charts.

While it sold a respectable 699,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan data, it did not reach the 1 million mark, unlike all the other debuts from previous “Idol” champs. It also did not register a hit song, unlike other “Idol” winners.

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Holy Jamie Lynn! TMZ has confirmed that “American Idol” trainwreck finalist Jessica Sierra done got herself knocked up — and she’s still in the slammer! Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater!

Sources tell TMZ that the father is a “rapper” and Jessica is ecstatic over the news. She’s currently in the infirmary in the Falkenburg Road Jail in Florida on a “pregnancy diet.” Jessica’s spawn has a lifetime of fun to look forward to — look, it’s mommy in a sex tape!

Sierra is currently facing two misdemeanor charges of disorderly intoxication and obstructing or opposing an officer and two felony counts of possession of cocaine and battery.

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Former “American Idol” finalist Jessica Sierra was jailed early Saturday after a drunken confrontation with police and onlookers, authorities said.

The arrest comes less than two weeks after she pleaded no contest to charges of battery and possession of cocaine.

Sierra, 22, was charged Saturday with disorderly intoxication, resisting arrest and violating conditions of her parole on earlier felony battery and possession charges. She was being held without bond.

Sierra, who was supposed to be completing a drug-rehabilitation program to be televised nationally, was arrested at a bar in Ybor City at 2:10 a.m. Saturday.

“As the defendant was taken into custody, she attempted to push away and flee the scene,” the arresting officers wrote.

Her attorney, John Fitzgibbons, said he heard about his client’s latest run-in with the law Saturday and had not spoken with her.

“I’ve been getting calls all day, but don’t have any comment,” he said.

On Nov. 19, Circuit Judge Gregory Holder sentenced Sierra to 12 months probation and random drug screening. She was accused of hitting a man on the head with a glass at a Tampa nightspot in April. Officers then found a small amount of cocaine while searching her afterward at the county jail.

A top-10 contestant on the show in 2005, Sierra entered a California rehab facility in July that was to be documented on VH1’s reality show “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew,” sometime early next year.

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Here is the official cover for Blake’s upcoming CD, Audio Day Dream (A.D.D.) It is released December 4th.

Kellie Pickler may have trouble with big-city cuisine, but the American Idol star knows how to handle a cheat. According to The Tennessean, the 21-year-old country singer told fans at a concert on October 1 that she and Nashville Predators player Jordin Tootoo were through. “Jordin knows what he did,” she said ominously.

At a September 22 show in Michigan, concertgoers say that Pickler announced that her new theme song is Carrie Underwood’s Before He Cheats, and then added that she hoped Tootoo’s teeth would be knocked out during a hockey game.

Despite her jokes, however, fans thought Pickler was in pain over the end of her 8-month-long relationship with Tootoo — she cried while singing Didn’t You Know How Much I Loved You.

Yikes, now that is one way to call out your ex a little more public then I myself would choose but I guess it gets his attention.

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“American Idol” Season Six winner Jordin Sparks, the show’s youngest winner ever, has signed to 19 Recordings/Jive Records, becoming the first “Idol” winner to join the label group.

Her first single will be debuting on August 27th, and the title is “Tattoo”.

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