Idol: Executive Producer Ken Warwick on nixing the Swaybots and helping Adam Lambert
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Good news for the Idoloonie nation: Over the next few weeks, you may be seeing a lot less of those “synchronized” swaying hands that pop up in the foreground of far too many American Idol performances. When I caught up with executive producer Ken Warwick via phone this afternoon to talk about the April 21 installment of Idol Gives Back — more on that later in the week — I managed to sneak in a brief question about this week’s guest mentor Adam Lambert, and to ask about putting an end to those pesky Swaybots. Warwick’s answers might surprise you. (And unfortunately, I ran out of time for asking follow-ups.) Read on…EW: The swaying people in the front rows. I noticed we’ve seen a little less of them in the last week or two. Will they continue to sway in front of the cameras?
Ken Warwick: I don’t know why we haven’t seen them. I’ll have a word with the director. But they’re swaying away like good’uns every week.
Although Steven Ma and Sonjia Kwok were once on bad terms, that did not affected their 10 year friendship. Yesterday, when the two attended TVB new series "Seven Days of Love Isolation" blessing ceremony, Steven admitted that the issue between him and Sonjia have been resolved and they are good friends again. He said: "Two months ago, when we went to Singapore for work, it was the first time we sat down to talk about what happened in the past. Turns out at the time, there was someone who was gossiping about me to Sonjia and then about Sonjia to me. We spent 1 hour talking about the story 10 years ago and felt that it's a pity because initially we could have..."
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