They literally dumped him at Hong Kong airport. Who could foresee that a reality show musical hook-up would end so badly.
''The winner of the 2005 reality show Rock Star:INXS has been fired by the band, leaving him broke and living out of his pickup truck. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Fortune let the cameras see how desperate his life has become ever since INXS told him he would no longer be the band’s singer at a Hong Kong airport.
“I found myself really alone because I had travelled with these guys for 23 months,” Fortune said. “Some of the audiences we played for were upwards of 80,000 people.” His addiction to cocaine was the possible reason he was let go from INXS, but Fortune claims that he used drugs to cope with the inevitable split, saying that his cocaine use “got as bad as it needed to be for me to numb out the fact that [he] knew this was going to come to a screeching halt.”
Even Fortune’s family was not aware that he was penniless and living in his car until the ET interview aired, but now that he is clean and sober, Fortune is willing to let the public see what’s become of his life so that he can promote his self-released forthcoming album, The Death of a Motivational Speaker.''
Yeah, that's possible, I guess.
ha - his name is fortune.
haha.
So INXS have finally called it a day?
or are they looking for another snore singer?
Shove it brother, just keep walking.
he parody that is INXS continues.
Next!
they might as well keep on going at this point, everything they've done in the post-hutchence era has been good for a laugh.
This is why rock bands shouldn't use saxophones
Ahaha, I didn't realise the reality show was actually real! I thought they just won like $10K and a meat tray or something! I mean, what did he expect?
I thought INXS had ended the minute Hutchence died..
So are there any other bands that have kept going because of a tv series??
I mean, pussycat dolls don't even use the girl they made the winner of the series..
Those were all rhetorical questions, I don't really care.
J.D Fortune, looks like Rick from the Twerps
J.D
Rick
Sorry, I'm gonna cop it for that.....
kisenafregga...mon grilll
Is Rick a dad?
Peaches Ahaha, I didn't realise the reality show was actually real! I thought they just won like $10K and a meat tray or something! I mean, what did he expect?
POST OF THE YEAR.
maybe JD Fortune could start a barbershop quartet INXS covers band with Terrence Trent D'Arby, Jon Stevens and one other person (have they had another post-Hutchence singer apart from those three?)
Nah, Ricks not a dad.
...that his boyfriend?
I don't know who it is, thats beside the point, the point is, Rick has a cocaine habbit and has kidnaped a child and won't give it back till his nose is powdered.
GENIUS!!!
I'm with steveholt - you can always blame the saxaphone
circular argument anyone?
Can't be too hard up.
inx-sploitated
So I guess this means that we will definitely have to have another series of Rockstar. Right? Right???
that's some seriously self-rationalising shit re: the reasons for his cocaine addiction.
''It's not my fault, I got addicted to cocaine due to the stress of getting fired from the band because of being addicted to cocaine!''
bummer.... i thought those assholes deserved each other.
Wow, you guys are fucking heartless. Finding such joy in someone else's woes. You're all seriously fucked up.
AND AS FOR YOU EMAIL, YOU'RE THE WORST AT THIS.
You'll all get yours.
I feel sorry for him.
Not the guys from INXS though.
What a pack of mercenary, artless cunts.
Yeah, but at least it won't be in NW.
i would think that's a safe bet. the deal was the winner would have a two year contract as their singer....23 months later...adios! right on time! ladies and gentlemen, j.d misfortune has left the building!
i think before the show he was living in a car....there's no place like home.
JD Misfortune has officially re-entered the building. Kirk did a radio interview the other day confirming that he's back in the fold. INXS have also leased out New Sensation to Kraft in the US to sell Salad Dressing. Since Michael died they've let the NRMA, Macca's, Toyota and Sea World use their tunes in ads. Fuckers! Hutch's legacy has been damaged beyond repair.
I won't believe this news until I've watch a 12-part reality TV series documenting the reunion.
Are they talking about a person or the personification of luck, Fortuna?
They're back with the bastard. They did a gig in California a couple of days ago with the douche after a couple of gigs in Australia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h3Li7KEjq8
Meanwhile the Ben Harper version of Never Tear Us Apart didn't chart at all and it has been mysteriously removed from itunes.
Dear INXS, you've had a more than fair run, now wrap it up now eh.
Their playing the AFL Grand Final with JD.
He's been booted again.
http://www.triplem.com.au/sydney/music/news/blog/jd-fortune-inxs-to-record-new-album-without-me/20110818-e9cf.html
http://www.inxs.com/