{"id":232,"date":"2012-03-14T20:18:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T20:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2012-03-14T20:18:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T20:18:42","slug":"idol-contestant-to-be-kicked-off-for-concealing-criminal-history-jermaine-jones-lied-to-producers-about-his-difficult-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Idol contestant to be kicked off for concealing criminal history Jermaine Jones lied to producers about his difficult past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ll-media.tmz.com\/2012\/03\/13\/0313-jermaine-jones-ex.jpg\" alt=\"Jermaine Jones will be kicked off American Idol\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The twenty-five year old from Pinehill, NJ lied to producers about his criminal history and will be leaving the singing contest.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2012\/03\/13\/jermaine-jones-american-idol-criminal-history-kicked-off\/#.T2Co7xEgdqY\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"new\">TMZ<\/a>, Jones concealed two prior arrests committed last year from the show\u2019s producers &#8211; one of which was due to violence. Both times he gave the police fake names.<\/p>\n<p>Producers decided to look into his past when Jones&#8217; father told TMZ that he did not abandon Jermaine as the\u00a0<em>Idol<\/em>\u00a0contestant claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Jones was reportedly confronted on Tuesday and will appear on the show Wednesday night before being sent home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The twenty-five year old from Pinehill, NJ lied to producers about his criminal history and will be leaving the singing contest. According to\u00a0TMZ, Jones concealed two prior arrests committed last year from the show\u2019s producers &#8211; one of which was due to violence. Both times he gave the police fake names. Producers decided to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-true-talk-on-celebs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weseelies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}