Bo Bice Bitten by RMA Curse
Strike two.
Just days after being tapped to replace an ailing Ashlee Simpson at the Radio Music Awards in Las Vegas Monday night, Bo Bice has canceled his performance due to illness.
The American Idol runner-up dropped out of the show early Monday after suffering complications from emergency intestinal surgery he underwent in August.
According to publicist Roger Widynowski, Bice was rushed to Las Vegas' Desert Spring Hospital Sunday after coughing up blood during rehearsals for the RMAs.
The "Inside Your Heaven" singer, who has been making the rounds promoting his debut album, The Real Thing, also canceled a scheduled Tuesday night performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. He has since been released from the hospital and is headed to Nashville to recuperate.
Barring any last-minute catastrophes, the Goo Goo Dolls are set to perform in Bice's place. We wish them well.
Last Thursday, Simpson's comeback tour--and RMA appearance--was felled when she collapsed in Tokyo following a performance on MTV Japan.
She left the stage in the middle of her song "Boyfriend," came back to apologize to the audience and promptly fainted in an elevator. She was hospitalized over the weekend and is now back in the States recuperating with her family.
While there has been no official word on the cause of the collapse, Us Weekly reported that "exhaustion" was the culprit. Simpson previously blamed acid reflux for her infamous Saturday Night Live meltdown.
Bice, meanwhile, has battled his own share of health woes in recent months.
Over the summer, he was temporarily sidelined from the American Idols Live! road show when he broke his foot on stage. Ever the trouper, Bice donned an air cast and vowed to soldier on for the rest of the tour dates, which, unfortunately, weren't many.
The long-haired, Alabama-born rocker was forced to pull out of the tour altogether in August after undergoing emergency surgery--in Las Vegas, no less--to remove a blockage from his intestines.
After a brief hospital stay, the chart-topping singer spent six weeks recovering in an "undisclosed location," presumably with his new wife Caroline and their infant son, Aidan.
The Radio Music Awards air tonight on NBC.





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