The The American Idol Show Show Vet Diana DeGarmo Can get Jersey-Licious round the Youthful as well as the Restless

Diana DeGarmo When the folks within the Youthful as well as the Restless needed a really lousy singer, they went and situated themselves a great one. The The American Idol Show Show Season 3 runner up Diana DeGarmo joins the CBS cleaning cleaning soap October 31 as Angelina, the Jersey girl daughter of mob boss Angelo Veneziano (Mike Starr). She involves Genoa City with wants like a chart-topping singer. And what Angelina wants, Angelina can get! TV Guide Magazine spoken with DeGarmo about her trash-tastic new role.TV Guide Magazine: Appears like Y&R will get some comic relief! Give to us the deets relating to this chick. DeGarmo: Well, she's an over-the-top, gum-striking, tone-hard of hearing princess whose tresses are the size of her attitude. [Laughs] And i'm getting a lot of fun! Angelina thinks she's Barbra Streisand coupled with Celine Dion and her father - who thinks his spoiled-brat daughter sings as being a choir of angels - really puts pressure on Devon [the youthful music producer carried out by Bryton James] showing her the ropes making her effective. It's fantastically amusing because it puts the indegent kid in the horrible predicament!TV Guide Magazine: Word is, she'll produce a mad crush on Kevin Fisher [Greg Rikaart].DeGarmo: Ooh, sherrrd like him bad! Angie has her eyes, her heart and her body set on landing Kevin - plus it scares him to dying! He's so sweet and nervous and Angelina loves predatory on him. She loves seeing him squirm. Greg which i can not stop laughing throughout our moments together.TV Guide Magazine: Which kind of music is Angie into? Pop? Broadway?DeGarmo: In my opinion it'll eventually be Top 40 but at first the authors have her singing the American standards - Judy Garland, that type of factor. We wish everyone else being really familiar with the tunes, to enable them to tell how badly Angie is butchering them.TV Guide Magazine: You will need real skill to get a poor singer, right?DeGarmo: [Laughs] The simple truth is! It is harder than people realize. But it's really liberating to acquire available and be bad. You just throw your ego for the wind and sing for Jesus.TV Guide Magazine: Will this be among people situations where Devon works miracle and turns Angie in to a terrific singer? Otherwise, why hire Diana DeGarmo?DeGarmo: Possibly. We're seeing where it is going. This is the positive thing about this kind of show - it's a living, breathing factor therefore it may change anytime, that people think is beautiful.TV Guide Magazine: Let's say Angie does are a good singer, won't you allow false desire to rotten entertainers everywhere?DeGarmo: You know what happens? People who would like to be entertainers might be nurtured and trained and so they might make great strides. But, the fact remains, if you are completely tone hard of hearing it's not going to occur to suit your needs. It's just possible of existence. It's at all like me thinking I is certainly an Olympic swimmer. It ain't gonna happen!TV Guide Magazine: How'd you obtain this gig, anyway?DeGarmo: It absolutely was the striving in the stars. We did a distinctive performance of Hairspray within the Hollywood Bowl for 3 nights the 2009 August and [Y&R professional producer] Maria Bell happened later on notice much like they were beginning to find Angelina, that's so not the kind of character role people consider me doing. To start with, I've changed a great deal. People be familiar with little 16-year-old blonde in the The American Idol Show Show. Now i'm 24, and definitely not blonde any more. I'm to being au naturel, thank heavens! Everyone at Y&R remains so nice welcoming, that's refreshing. You know, the entertainment marketplace is much less sweet constantly.Television Guide Magazine: On that subject, when you lost the Idol crown to Fantasia you went into the Broadway company of Hairspray. After I recall, didn't that piss off a few people? DeGarmo: There's plenty of bitterness and bitterness toward me at first. The NY theater community didn't like being permeated by reality stars - they still don't - however got inside and auditioned similar to everybody else. They hired me for Hairspray to help sell tickets for just about any day or two, however ended up being there substantially more than initially planned and started to carve a market personally. I later did the revival of Hair on Broadway as well as the [off-Broadway] musical The Toxic Avenger, which was my first Jersey girl part!TV Guide Magazine: And Fantasia, Constantine Maroulis, Clay Aiken and Ace Youthful all adopted you to definitely certainly the fantastic White-colored Way.DeGarmo: There's a notion that reality-show people are simply mere personas, they don't have real talent, which i labored real difficult to change peoples' minds, one show at any time, and shown lots of people wrong. I'm proud I used to be the first to get this done for Idol on Broadway!Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!