"contestant" is correct and usable in written English and is generally used to refer to someone who is competing in a contest or game show.
For example, "The contestants on the show stage their best performance in the hopes of winning the grand prize."
In 2016, the winning contestant isn't given a recording contract as such.
On the evening of 15 March – after a relatively unmemorable performance – Kills piled in on the dress sense of contestant Joe Irvine, accusing him of copying her husband's look and calling him "creepy" and "disgusting" in the process.
Our panel of esteemed judges – including architects, urbanists and a classroom of MA students – will grill each contestant with some tough questions and feedback.
During his career, Cowell has suggested that people might throw rocks at a substandard singer, that a man's singing voice probably contributed to the break-up of his marriage, and that one contestant looked "like the Incredible Hulk's wife".
Such news was unexpected, given Shannon's recent split from common law husband Mike Sugar Bear Thompsonon, father of the series' star, Alanna "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson, a former child beauty pageant contestant from Georgia who first found fame on the previous TLC reality show Toddlers & Tiaras.
Australian Big Brother contestant Priya Malik has spoken out for the first time about the racist abuse she received after appearing on Channel Nine's reality TV show but says that if she was invited back, she would do it all again.
With AshLee on one end of the spectrum of stability, we have perennial Bachelor franchise contestant Michelle Money on the other.
Related: X Factor New Zealand judges sacked for 'bullying' contestant over suit However, the art of the talent show critique has moved on, and Kills and Moon haven't noticed.
Of course, not every Idol contestant has reached Clarkson's heights of success, but artists like Ruben Studdard, Jordin Sparks, Fantasia Barrino, Chris Daughtry, David Cook, Adam Lambert, Kris Allen, Jennifer Hudson, Phillip Phillips and David Archuleta have found legitimate pop success with platinum singles and/or albums, even if their mainstream fame was sometimes short-lived.
The former I'm a Celebrity contestant, who grew up in Liverpool, says she was abused by Anglican vicar and family friend Rev William Cameron when she was nine.
If a contestant doesn't actually love (or want to make out with) the person offering you a rose, they can turn it down.
