Back on Monday, we plopped the video for Guy Sebastian’s latest single ‘Gold’ up on the site, saying at the time that “‘The Voice’ contestant Carmen Smith provides the backing vocal amazingness here, giving her star an even greater chance to shine on the hit Channel 9 show.”
Seems like producers have had other ideas, however, confirming today that the songstress has been dumped from the show because they feel her high profile role in the clip could give her an unfair advantage over other contestants.
A spokesperson for Channel 9 said, “Our priority as we move into the voting period toward the finale is that all of the artists are on a level playing field. In our business we are often confronted by these tough decisions and unfortunately at this time it’s been decided that it isn’t appropriate for her to remain in our competition.”
Carmen was due to take to the stage as part of the live finals on the hit TV show this coming Monday night.
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Anonymous says
Biggest winner in all this Guy Sebastian. Huge publicity for his new song and video.
survivorfan989 says
Disappointing as I’m a Carmen fan, but its fair at the end of the day as she knew the rules. She has still had exposure and won new fans from her time on the show so it wasn’t a total loss.
fabio says
i am sorry but this is absolute RUBBISH! australian idol has strict rules from the start of the series about how no contestants can do interviews and extra publicity etc…. but the voice has never had such rules as if i read correctly last week one of delta’s contestants did an article in the herald sun about how everyone should leave her alone et etc… shouldnt he also be dropped from the show? carmen should not have been dropped, its a joke!
Anonymous says
Gold is not “underperforming”.It was only released 5 days ago,& Itunes has been swamped with The Voice voters/buyers taking advantage of special deals re the contestants songs.Guy is not the only artist being held back by this.Lots of other new releases are suffering too.
Anonymous says
What a load of rubbish. Chris Sebastian and Mahalia Barnes certainly had high profiles due to their show biz relatives, Delta”s back up singer is in ‘Team Delta’ Prinnie has her own fanbase from Idol…seems a bit unfair to me.
Anonymous says
“Gold” is underperforming, so she probably made the wrong decision in agreeing to be a part of it!