December 31, 2012

American Idol 2013 Top 40 Spoilers: Fil-Ams Bryant Tadeo, Adriana Latonio and Jett Hermano In!

American Idol Season 12 (2013) will premiere this January 16, 2013 on Fox and many websites have already released spoilers on the Top 40 contestants who made it to the Las Vegas round. The American Idol 2013 Top 40 is comprised of 20 boys and 20 girls and according to reports, three Filipino-Americans made it to the list—Bryant Tadeo, Adriana Latonio and Jett Hermano.

American Idol 2013 (Season 12) Spoilers: Filipino-Americans Bryant Tadeo and Adriana Latonio rumored to be included in Top 40

Bryant Tadeo is from Hawaii and a second-timer in American Idol. He auditioned last year (AI Season 11) and made it to the Hollywood rounds. Meanwhile, this will be the first time for young diva Adriana Latonio, who at this early has been compared to Jessica Sanchez, another half-Filipino who emerged as the American Idol 2012 runner-up. Bridget "Jett" Hermano, on the other hand is born and raised in Seattle, Washington and reportedly the 1st "Asian American Idol" in the Fil-Am community of Seattle.

Will these three capture the hearts of the judges and eventually make it to American Idol 2013 Top 24? Let's find out if all these rumors and speculations are true this January on American Idol Season 12.

Here are the American Idol 12 Top 40 spoilers:

Top 20 Boys
Top 20 Girls
1. Bryant Tadeo [AI11 HW]
2. Burnell Taylor
3. Charlie Askew
4. Chris Watson [AI7 HW]
5. Cortez Shaw [AI11 SFYL/GM]
6. Curtis Finch, Jr. [AI11 LVR]
7. David Willis
8. Devin Velez
9. Elijah Liu [AI11 HW]
10. Gurpreet Singh Sarin
11. Jimmy Smith
12. Johnny Keyser [AI11 LVR]
13. Joshua “Josh” Holiday
14. Joshua “Josh” Jada Davila
15. Kevin Harris
16. Lazaro Arbos
17. Mathenee Treco [AI11 LVR]
18. Nick Boddington [AI11 LVR]
19. Paul Jolley
20. Vincent Powell [AI11 HW]
1. Adriana Latonio
2. Amber Holcomb [AI11 LVR]
3. Angela Miller
4. Aubrey Cleland [AI10 HW & AI11 SFYL/GM]
5. Brandy Hotard
6. Breanna Steer
7. Candice Glover [AI9 HW & AI11 LVR]
8. Cristabel Clack
9. Isabel Pasqualone
10. Janelle Arthur [AI10 HW & AI11 LVR]
11. Jenny Beth Willis
12. Jett Hermano
13. Juliana Chahayed
14. Kamaria Ousley
15. Kree Harrison
16. Melinda Ademi [AI10 LVR]
17. Rachel Hale
18. Shubha Vedula
19. Tenna Torres [AI11 LVR]
20. Zoanette Johnson

You can see in the notations after each name if they participated in a previous season and how far they made it in the process. “HW” stands for Hollywood Week and “LVR” stands for Las Vegas Round. Spoilers from Americanidolnet.com.

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