Contestant #79220
Lloyd "Big SuccSexy" Thomas is a big personality. We first see him doing the robot and repeating his nickname, a hybrid of "success" and "sexy". As he pulled out photographs of his daughters from his wallet, one of them fell on the floor as the camera zoomed in. Lloyd asked if they would cut that part out.
Lloyd is a dock worker at an airport and says that "the worst part about my job that I have is . . . probably the job that I have."
In the audition room, Lloyd sang Stevie Wonder's Overjoyed and did a great job — even Simon called it the best audition of the day. Neil Patrick Harris suggested that Lloyd work some of that personality into his performance.
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Contestant #81788
Julie auditioned way back in Season 1 and got on the air for her horrible rendition of Labelle's Lady Marmalade. Julie returned again for season 9 with a sign reading "THIS IS MY YEAR 2009 Julie Kevelighan"
This time, Julie sang Alannah Myles' Black Velvet. To be honest, she sounded horrible but she sounded better than her previous audition.
When asked what he thought, Neil Patrick Harris said, "My first problem was the bottom line of your sign. The letters just get real small at the end. It seemed like you might have wanted to start over." When Simon gave his bad review and tried to start the voting, Julie broke into Somewhere over the Rainbow. They cut her off and voted No, so Julie started singing Let's Give Them Something to Talk About. At that point, security picked up her sign and showed her the way out.
Outside the audition room, Julie blamed her breathing and breath control on her poor audition. She even tried to fit a fourth song in during Ryan's interview. Maybe we'll see Julie again in 8 more years.
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