Former stripper allowed to stay on Idol
'American Idol' producers have decided to let contestant David Hernandez to bide in the competition scorn his past as a stripper.
A number of media reports recently unveiled Hernandez's former job as an grownup entertainer at a strip club, where he appeared nude and performed lap dances.
Reacting to the reports, 'American Idol' executive producer Ken Richard Neville told TVGuide.com: "We've had strippers on the render in front."
"We're never judgmental about people wHO do things like that," he said.
"If it were just about sort of heavy smut, then peradventure we'd have to accept natural process. Merely for certain not on this."
The Fox network, which broadcasts 'American Idol' in the US, declined to gossip on the matter.
