David Archuleta will be on his own as he prepares for this week's
American Idol competition now that his father has been banned from the
FOX (NWS) show's rehearsals and backstage area.
Jeff Archuleta has been rumored to be an overbearing stage-dad for some time, and now the American Idol producers have had enough: An unnamed source told the AP that the senior Archuleta's micromanaging his son's song arrangements crossed the line.
The father reportedly told David, 17, to change some of the lyrics to Ben E. King's "Stand by Me," to include a verse from Sean Kingston's "Beautiful Girls." Producers had asked that the change not be made because it would result in having to pay royalties on both songs. David, perhaps at his father's insistence, performed the additional verse anyway.
Jeff Archuleta is not the first to take parental guidance too far. At first it was stage moms who were routinely criticized for pushing their young daughters into beauty pageants and talent contests. Now, there are no limits: Both moms and dads have become a presence, and sometimes an overbearing one, in their children's extra curricular life. What parents may not consider is that their extreme actions can cost them and those around them, big time.
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