Was Joanna Pacitti a Plant for Season 8?
Every season of American Idol there are rumors about how the producers or the network executives have planted people in the auditions to make sure that people with real talent make it through. Every season people think that there are ringers because they can’t be that good and not have been discovered. But this year, the controversy got even hotter when American Idol judges put Joanna Pacitti through to the top 36 finalists. While the home viewers were watching Joanna beat out fellow contestant Felicia Barton, Felicia was learning that she would indeed be making the top 36 after all. How is this possible? The auditions and Hollywood week were previously recorded over the summer and fall and in the time they learned that Joanna had been seen with members of the production company that backs American Idol, leading to her disqualification and subsequent replacement by Barton. This begs the question of whether she was planted in the competition or whether they were truly clueless about the
