SNUBBED: “Idol” judges (
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Sorry, New York — no “American Idol” audition episode for you.
Turns out the “Idol” judges never taped a “You’re going to Hollywood” session with the contestants who made it through the first round of auditions that were held last September at New Jersey’s Izod Center.
The auditions here were added to the roster of cities at the last minute.
Because of that, the show did not get the judges — Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler — together in New York for a day to listen to the singers who made it past the first cut.
Instead, “the contestants auditioned at other cities,” says a source close to the production.
That explains why such New York hopefuls as “starving artist” Creighton Fraker, 28, of Queens and Flushing’s Heejun Han, 22, an organizer for nonprofit groups, showed up in the Pittsburgh auditions.
Some of the New York singers who were called back also ended up at the Portland, Ore. auditions that aired last week.
A spokesman for the show yesterday could not say if the New York contestants paid their own way to distant cities to sing for the judges or if the show picked up the tab.
Meanwhile, the audition segment of “Idol” is over and “Hollywood Week” auditions begin tomorrow night.