American Idol: Hoboken’s Joanne Borgella
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2/20/2008:
How do you think Joanne Borgella performed on American Idol tonight?
Let’s have our own exclusive Hoboken voting poll (alphabetical by first name):
See previous updates after the jump.
2/13/2008 Update:
Hoboken’s Joanna Borgella made it to the final 24 contestants on American Idol tonight.
Until that clip goes up on YouTube, here’s a video you of her winning the Monique’ F.A.T. Chance contest in 2005 to tide you over:
2/12/2008:
I never purposely watch American Idol at all, but I’ve received almost 30 emails regarding Hoboken resident JoAnne Borgella, and her appearance on last week’s show that I had to put it up.
Personally, I find that tool Ryan Seacrest so painfully annoying I’d like to punch his mouth off, but the show has staying power, and people love watching the horrific performers.
Anyway, you can catch JoAnne (who was former plus-size model, and actually won the 2005 reality show MoNique’s Fat Chance!) tonight at 8pm on FOX.
Here’s last weeks performance.
Hoboken, Joanne Borgella, American Idol, Plus Size Models
21. revpnice44 | February 20th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
btw - thats one hell of an air-brush job on that photo
22. homeworld | February 21st, 2008 at 12:10 am
hooter-boken wrote:
Why are we supposed to care about her? She’s from Hoboken but pretends she’s not, or she’s not really from Hoboken?
23. beamrider9 | February 21st, 2008 at 1:58 am
Sheesh. Are you guys really that insecure? People from Tumbleweed, Missouri don’t know what Hoboken is - but everyone knows what New York is. So she says she’s from New York. Get over it.
24. kal-el | February 21st, 2008 at 6:50 am
can anyone get me her number ? ! “I THINK SHE’S PRETTY CUTE”
I’LL MAKE HER HIT THE HIGH NOTE….
25. blahblahblah | February 21st, 2008 at 7:56 am
SHE IS NOT A HOBOKENNITE…HOPE SHE DOES WELL, BUT PLEASE PEOPLE SHE ISNT FROM HOBOKEN….IN ANY EVENT I VOTED FOR HER CAUSE ITS CLOSE TO HOME
26. Furey | February 21st, 2008 at 8:24 am
revpnice44 wrote:
I was going to write the same thing.
27. rag246 | February 21st, 2008 at 8:57 am
My favorite part of her bio vid is when she says: “It’s incredible being a plus sized model! It feels so great to represent the average sized woman…”
Um, no. “Plus sized” = fat. “Average sized” would be a few sizes smaller than that. Not coke whore thin, but not plus sized fat. That would be average.
28. ilovecalculators | February 21st, 2008 at 9:52 am
yada, yada, yada…wrap it up B!
29. beamrider9 | February 21st, 2008 at 10:18 am
rag246 wrote:
Don’t look now, but the average American female is 5′4″, 163 pounds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_weight
So she’s probably a lot closer to average than you’d think.
30. MidnightRacer | February 21st, 2008 at 11:02 am
163 lbs = 73.935 kg
64 in (5′4″) = 1.625 m
BMI = kg/m2(squared) = 27.999
According to the World Health Organization (website = who dot int), a BMI between 25.00-29.99 is overweight. So your average woman at 5′4″ and 163 lbs is overweight by international standards.
Don’t kill the messenger.
31. plaintruthiness | February 21st, 2008 at 11:42 am
blahblahblah wrote:
For those of you torn between watching the lunar eclispe or Joanne Borgella last night, in front of 25 million people she said she is from “Hoboken, NJ”, and that is also what was displayed on the screen below her name. So be cool to her, even though she going to need to sing & move much better than she did last night in order to survive.
32. Journey | February 21st, 2008 at 11:53 am
What everyone is missing as what the fashion industry thinks is plus vs. what the fashion industry thinks is average vs the reality that they don’t have models to represent the morbidly obese.
The average woman technically wears plus sizes.
33. TheGreatCO | February 21st, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Who cares about american idol anymore? William Hung made me what to puke and sanjiya made me want to slit my wrists. American Idol’s time has come and gone, they just haven’t realized it. I guess it took survivor like 4 seasons to figure it out…
34. washingtonstreet | February 21st, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Apparantely she is originally from Long Island and probably lives in Hoboken now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanne_Borgella
35. jvig_3280 | February 21st, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Say good night JoAnne.. your 2 minutes of fame are up!
36. kal-el | February 22nd, 2008 at 7:28 am
i don’t care how big she is kal-el want’s to jump on top of her !!! i don’t care were she lives or where she came from she’s HOT and you know what guy’s you should be greatful she’s using HOBOKEN AS HER HOME TOWN !!!! It’s making this town a little more reconized…