Scott Brown: Give Ayla Another Shot on Idol

Senator-elect appeals to Simon Cowell on daughter's behalf
By Marie Morris,  Newser Staff
Posted Jan 31, 2010 3:27 PM CST

Senator-elect Scott Brown is using his new found fame to call on Foxs premiere reality TV show to give his daughter one more chance. Ayla Brown was eliminated as a semi-finalist in American Idols 2005 season. Judge Simon Cowell called Browns performance robotic and empty. I would love for him to hear her again, said her father told abcs Barbara Walters Sunday. Youre asking him to please give her another chance? asked Walters. I would love it, he said. There is life after Idol. She respects him greatly, about his critiquing. If you listen to what he says, he was right.
(DrudgeReportUSA)

Scott Brown thought Simon Cowell's 2006 critique of daughter Ayla's performance on American Idol was "kind of harsh," but he'd still like the Fox impresario to give his offspring another chance. "Ayla actually respects Simon greatly about his critiquing," the senator-elect from Massachusetts told Barbara Walters in an interview that aired today on ABC's This Week. "If you actually listen to what he says" about the then-17-year-old, whom Cowell called "robotic," says her dad, "it was right"
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