America got the two-fer it never knew it wanted on Sunday’s “American Idol.”
Claudia Conway returned for Hollywood Week after a shaky audition, and her mother, former Trump White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, agreed to an improvised chorus of ‘Girl On Fire’.
The younger Conway, 16, reappeared with new dark locks and a decision to follow Judge Katy Perry’s advice to “calm the storm” around her. Conway gained popularity on TikTok amid a controversial relationship with her mother, who left her White House last summer to focus on the family. Her father, lawyer George Conway of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, also quit his job. (He accompanied Claudia to the audition that aired in February.)
This time, the teenager sang a useful version of Bishop Briggs’ “River” and awaited her fate in a line of other hopefuls. Perry let them know they had all moved on, and Kellyanne Conway shouted “Claudia, hi!”
Backstage Conway hugged her daughter and sang “This girl is on fire, this girl is on fire.”
Somewhere Alicia Keys’ ears are bleeding.
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