Fun Idol Fact: Aspiring singer Janell Wheeler — reportedly the former girlfriend of University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow — has reportedly been selected as a one of the semi-finalists on the current ninth season American Idol, Real GM Sports has learned.
“Janell Wheeler, girlfriend of Tim Tebow, is on the list of “Idol” semifinalists whose names were leaked earlier this week on several Web sites,” the site claimed this week.
Janell performed “The House of the Rising Sun” to impress judges at her Idol audition in Orlando last summer and was given one of the coveted Golden Tickets to attend Hollywood Week — where she again wowed the panel with an acoustic version of Estelle and Kanye’s hit “American Boy.”
Wheeler previously won Florida’s Orlando’s Got Talent competition.