Video: X Factor Contestant Exposes Himself, Makes Paula Abdul Nearly Vomit
Well, that's one way to make a first impression!
Paula Abdul returned to reality TV last night with FOX's The X Factor, and her new stint as a judge on Simon Cowell's series sure started off with a bang.
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Chronicling the Los Angeles and Seattle auditions, Wednesday's episode featured contestant Geo Godley, a 43-year-old Internet blogger who delivered a performance Abdul, 49, will not soon forget.
Clad in a silver foil-type shirt and pants, Godley -- a classically trained pianist -- offered up a "feel-good song" he wrote, titled "I'm a Stud."
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"To win this competition I'm willing to do whatever it takes," Godley confirmed as he flitted around on stage and eventually dropped his pants and exposed himself to the judges and an arena of thousands. "Oh no, it looks like I'm in trouble!" he said after a mortified Abdul shrieked and stormed off set.
"What the bloody hell was that?!" Cowell, 51, asked the contestant. Added judge Antonio "L.A." Reid: "That was offensive, disgusting, distasteful, upsetting…get him out of the building please!"
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But no judge was more affected by Godley's antics than Abdul, who promptly headed backstage and nearly vomitted.
"I just witnessed a nightmare on stage," Abdul said. "It literally made me sick!"
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Godley clearly failed to see the error of his ways. "I was in key, everything was going well," he reasoned of the performance. "My pants were down and I was jumping around and all of a sudden the audience turned against me. I don't know what happened. I thought they'd like it!"
Revisit Godley's shocking performance in the clip above (via the Herald Sun) as The X Factor's two-night premiere continues Thursday at 8 p.m. (EST) on FOX.
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14The disgusting part was not the guy who was supposedly naked (there is some question about whether that really happened) but was Paula's reaction to it. If she is going to react to people on the stage then she needs to take several acting classes. Her "throw-up" reaction looked totally phony and staged. C'mon Paula, have you never seen a naked man before. Have you never been backstage among a bunch of dancers. It is hard for me to believe your outrage. Furthermore, the producers of the show decided to show this - they could have cut if off at any point (like the moment the guy's pants fell) but they chose to keep it on so the viewers could see it all. What did they want the viewers to see? Perhaps they wanted to focus on Paula. Give us a break...I think the show wasn't able to collect enough real talent and they are using stuff like this to fill up the time. After all, they had a 2-hour time slot and very little talent to fill it, so they had to do something or lose views. Paula could lose viewers all by herself with phony acting like that.
This was an ill-advised PR stunt. The show was not live was taped and this part should have been cut, not aired. X-Factor and Fox should have had the sense not to air this. We turned the show off due to this "performance" and wont bother watching again. This is a family show and it is outrageous it was permitted to air. I agree with posters below that in the real world this guy would have been arrested for indecent exposure leading to sex-offender registration.
Do you guys really think this crap bit wasn't staged?? Come on now, if this was real he would have been arrested afterwards NOT interviewed like nothing happened. This show has admitted being staged before in the UK version.. Its staged crap.
This is just sick!! I mean HOW EFFING STUPID is a person to pull that crap! WHo knows what kinds of things he has done...especially when he does it when there are kids in the audience
I still love The Voice compared to this one.
I think that the guy on stage was just wanting to stand out even though did expose himself on stage, and just wanting to make an impression but went about it in the wrong way. I agree he should been arrested or stop smoking what ever it is that he is on to make him think that what he did was appropriate in a way that wasa uncalled for. If it were my kids watching that I would have flipped out because he knew there were kids in the audience because it is a family show that it is enjoyed by millions and I am almost sure that it will definitely hurt the ratings on what will be great show. I would like to send my deepest sympathy for Paula sympathy to paula and I hope it didn't scare her for life. I believe the security should have took him out back and beat the hell out of for the simple fact that he exposed himself to the audience and should have to register as a sex offender, because it is no different than a pedifile exposing himself to any kid on the street and should never be allowed to work in the music industry ever again. As a father of three girls I would have to had to call the police my self because my kids were watching X factor at the time of his extreme actions thinking it would help his chances of winning. Again I would like to give my sympathy to all the judges and audience for having to have to watch something like that. And I would also say that I could understand the humiliation of all the producer for the incident that occured at the premier. And as a man myself with kids I would like to apologize for his actions because he gave a bad name for all men trying to make something in this world.
Paula feeling sick upon seeing a man's package, please, who has seen more "packages" that P.A.
OMG...........OMG......BRING BACK SOME OF THE OLD SHOWS,,,,THIS IS GARBAGE........ NEVER WATCHED THIS GARGAGE AND NEVER WILL!!!!!!!
I really don't think they knew he was going to drop his pants....not when there are people as young as 12 years in the audience...I would have chewed him out and called security for that disgusting act...a mother got up and left with her child. This guys needs to be locked up....SERIOUSLY!!!
There were kids in the audience and he dropped his pants for a song. Why didn't they arrest him for indecent exposure. If I was a parent with my child in that audience there would have been a big problem. The producers knew something was going to happen because everyone has to go thru a screening before they go before the judges. I almost changed the channel because of how disgusted I was, it was not a "funny" audition, it was a perverted 5 minutes of nonesense. Simon cut other people short when they sang good but all the judges allowed him to continue up there without putting an end to it. It was all set up!
When these people get to perform in front of the main judges, they have already been past a set of preliminary judges. It's not like they don't know if the person is going to be horrible or not ahead of time when that person gets to the mainstage. They're simply put there for shock factor or to be made fun off.
This guy is a sex pervert. Would do whatever humiliated for 5 second fame.
I don't understand why he was not immediately taken and arrested!
OMG, don't they have staff that screen these people? These shows are nothing but ridiculous. Please bring back t.v. the way it was before staged reality shows.