It just wouldn't be a Television Critics Association press tour without a Fox reality-show controversy.
So while the rest of America hasn't thought much lately about American Idol contestant Corey Clark's charges that he had a sexual relationship with Paula Abdul and that she gave him a few pointers to help him advance in the competition — the story was alive and well among the reporters who showed up Thursday to hear Fox entertainment president Peter Liguori's press-tour debut.
Liguori said the Clark-Abdul matter was being investigated by an "independent counsel." Not a great choice of words. Independent counsel conjures up visions of Kenneth Starr, Archibald Cox, stained blue dresses and Oval Office tapes. (He meant "outside counsel," we were told later. A Fox insider said the place has been crawling with lawyers looking into the matter.)
So the questions kept coming from
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