Producers of popular Fox TV show "American Idol" are boosting security for judges Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul.

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The sharp-tongued Englishman laughed as hopeful Leroy Wells, 22, did a rap song and then told him, "That was awful."

But Wells, from Alabama, watched his recorded audition from jail -- after being arrested in an alleged shooting of another man, the Sun reported Thursday.

Said fellow judge Abdul: "It is scary."

 

 

 

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