Ex-Geffen Records recording artist Joanna Pacitti, who made it to Hollywood for season 8 of American Idol (and probably the top 50), unsurprisingly has connections to Idol. So that's how she made it on so easily. We received a tip that Joanna is friends with Roger Widynowski, the VP of Music and TV Publicity at 19 Entertainment. 19 Entertainment is the company that owns the rights to Idol and manages most of the successful contestants. Isn't that a ridiculous conflict of interest to get your friends a place on a show you work on? Then again, if they didn't give Carly Smithson any crap about working with Randy Jackson last year, they sure won't do anything about Joplanta this year. Though, start spreading the word about Joanna's connections so we can at least give Idol crap about it early on.

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