Ryan Seacrest has still not addressed or issued an apology for spoiling the result of Wednesday nights American Idol on his Twitter account. After Idol finished filming at 7 p.m. in Los Angeles, Seacrest tweeted the following: Packed radio show tomorrow
got tonights voted-off Idol Lacey Brown. However, the tweet was sent out to Seacrests 3 million followers before the program starting airing on the West Coast at 9 p.m., sparking a Twitter backlash against the Idol host. Coincidentally or not, Wednesdays Idol ratings in the 18-49 age demographic were the shows lowest in its history for a regularly scheduled in-season episode, according to The Washington Post.
Seacrest did not bring up the controversy during his Thursday morning radio show. Fox had no comment, and Seacrests rep has not returned EWs calls.