In an interview with “OK! Magazine,” “Idol” EP Nigel Lythgoe revealed something interesting about “Idol Gives Back”…
They didn’t want President Bush to be a part of it.
Nigel told the magazine, “We didn’t ask the President this year to say anything because we are all a bit embarrassed about him, and the office insisted that, because the [primary] candidates were on it, the President would like to come on and say ‘thank you.’”
Nigel said the producers were embarrassed by the President’s efforts to combat poverty...
