American Idol season 24 has its winner, and the result felt like the conclusion to a story audiences had been rooting for since February. Hannah Harper, a 25-year-old stay-at-home mom from Willow Springs, Missouri, claimed the season 24 crown during the May 11 finale on ABC. She beat out fellow finalists Keyla Richardson and Jordan…
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Jennifer Hudson returns to American Idol after 22 years
There are full-circle moments, and then there is Jennifer Hudson walking back onto the American Idol stage not as a hopeful contestant, but as a guest judge. More than two decades after her Season 3 appearance on the show that introduced her to the world, Hudson returned to the program for the April 20 episode,…