Chris Golightly Disqualified From ‘American Idol’ Top 24 Season 9

Chris Golightly disqualified from the Top 24 of “American Idol” due to an old contract.

Ryan Seacrest made it official with his tweet on Wednesday, February 17 after the revelation of Top 24 went on air. He wrote, “been determined that Chris Golightly is ineligible to continue on IDOL, contestant Tim Urban has replaced Golightly as part of the Top 24″. He however, remained shady on the reason of the disqualification, writing “must have broken a rule or maybe had previous deal”.

Fellow contestant of season 9 Samantha Musa who has also been cut, provided more insight to the situation:

Samantha Musa has been tweeting Wednesday night (February 17):

Just got off the phone with Chris GoLightly. He was disqualified yesterday, after already being told he was in the top 24, over some bogus..Old contract. The contract expired, but they disqualified him for not telling them. He is talking to lawyers, but doubt thet can do anything

You’re allowed to have old contracts, they just need to know about them. I think he put that he had it, but the guy he was.. …in it with called idol and said he still had contractual rights over him. Finally found the contract, expired in June.

He is upset cause he says it was a misunderstanding, yet they let Michael Lynch stay in the top 24 even though he broke contract…..when his family spilled the news about idol to the papers. So really, its pretty messed up that they pick and choose which……”Breach” to ignore and which to use as grounds for disqualification!

UPDATE: FOX issued a press release that said it has been determined that Chris Golightly is ineligible to continue in the competition. “American Idol” contestant contestant Tim Urban has replaced Golightly as part of the Top 24.

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