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Naomi Judd dishes dirt on David's dad!!
Now Naomi Judd, who judged the Star Search contest the year David won it in 2003, has called Jeff the "worst stage dad" and revealed that he was put in the security guards' box to keep him away from the kids! On the Today Show last week, Naomi even sent out a message to Jeff, 46, telling him to lay off the Idol favorite."[David] was on Star Search when I was a judge," she said. "The minute I saw him I went: 'Five stars -- he's going to be huge.'"But I want to give a shout out to his dad: leave him alone!" His dad is like the worst stage dad," she said."They had to put him in the security guard's little box!"At the end of March, an unnamed CBS executive who worked on Star Search told The New York Post that Jeff was banned from backstage after other parents complained that he was, "trying to subtly psyche out the other kids."Meanwhile, a member of the show's staff told the L.A. Rag Mag Web site that the producers took action after he called Tiffany Evans, the 10-year-old who beat David to the Grand Champion title, at night in her hotel room. But Tiffany recently told OK! that although she did spend some time around Jeff, she "doesn't recall" much about her relationship with him. The Archuleta family have not commented on the controversy in the press, and there haven't been any reports of behind-the-scenes family strife since early March, when David fluffed the lyrics to a Beatles song. What's gonna happen as we get closer to the finale? Will Dad blow it for Archie? Songs of Andrew Lloyd Weber tomorrow night, right up Archie's alley!
--Nancy
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