Katharine McPhee Calls in Sick
Forget over the rainbow--Katharine McPhee is under the weather.
The season five Idol runner-up was forced to skip the opening nights of the American Idols Live! tour due to "severe bronchitis and laryngitis," promoters announced just hours before the start of Wednesday's sold-out show in Manchester, New Hampshire.
"I am disappointed and I am sorry to disappoint my fans who will be attending the start of the American Idols Live tour," McPhee said in a written statement. However, she said, "I need to follow my doctor's orders to recuperate and reunite with the rest of the Idols."
The singer's doctor, Sean Nassari, prescribed "total voice rest."
"That's the most difficult part, not talking!" McPhee wrote.
The silenced songbird was also expected to miss Thursday's show. There was no word on whether she would be able to rejoin the other top 10 Idol contestants by Friday's show in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Though she may not be singing onstage, fans can catch McPhee on the radio.
Her first single, "Somewhere over the Rainbow," debuted at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart this week, making her a runner-up in more ways than one to reigning Idol Taylor Hicks, whose first single, "Do I Make You Proud," debuted at number one.
Not that second place is all bad.
Assuming she gets her voice back, McPhee is slated to fill in as a guest host on The View on July 19, taking the seat left vacant by Star Jones Reynolds' abrupt departure.
She also recently auditioned for a role on HBO's Entourage as a love interest for Adrian Grenier's character, Vince Chase.
"It brought me back to the struggling-actress thing. [But] I wasn't quite as nervous," she told Teen People about the try-out.
In a candid interview last month, McPhee opened up about her lengthy battle with bulimia, revealing that she had been bingeing and purging for five years and only took control of her eating disorder after landing a spot on the talent search.
"That's why I say American Idol saved my life, because if I hadn't auditioned, I don't think I would have gotten a handle on food," she told People magazine.
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