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American Idol: Katy Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie eliminate more than HALF of the field in the new Idol Arena for Hollywood week... in the biggest cut in the show's history


Katy Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie made the tough call to cut down the remaining contestants to less than half on Sunday's tense two-hour episode of American Idol's Hollywood Week in ABC.

Katy Perry , Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie made the tough call to cut down the remaining contestants to less than half on Sunday's tense two-hour episode of American Idol 's Hollywood Week on ABC. Ajii, 27, from Brooklyn who works as a nursing home security guard, performed Lynyrd Skynyrd's Simple Man and dedicated it to his mother. He was followed by Mackenzie Sol, 23, a content creator from Las Vegas and then Blake Proehl, 24, a former pro football player from Charlotte, North Carolina; and Justice Murphy, 21, a college student from Forrest City, Arkansas.

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