Corey Clark Booted From ‘American Idol’

A month after Fox disqualified Frenchie Davis from ‘American Idol’ amid revelations that she had posed topless on an Internet porn site, the network said on Monday it was expelling another finalist, Corey Clark, who is facing trial on misdemeanor charges of battery against his sister and resisting arrest. Fox said in a statement that Clark “withheld information about a prior arrest which, had it been known, might have affected his participation in the show. Due to his failure to disclose, compounded by an error in a police report which misspelled Corey’s name, the incident was not discovered during a background check. The producers and network feel that Corey’s behavior warrants his disqualification.”