David may seem like an innocent sweet songstress from Heaven, but our inside source says he has a calculating, overbearing, stage dad from HELL! We still endorse him wholeheartedly but, we wanted to share a story from our inside Star Search source, when he won round 1 at the age of 12. According to our reliable source his father was BANNED from the set:
David’s father Jeff Archuleta, was really creepy and overbearing. He pushed all his kids to the side and would only focus on David and his career. When it was down to the final contestants for Star Search was when he really started losing it. Jeff couldn’t bear to see David lose, so he started HARASSING the other contestants.
He cornered David’s biggest competition, Tiffany Evans, in the green room and intimidated her, telling her she’d lose to David. No one knew about it because Tiffany didn’t tell anyone at that time. It wasn’t until later that night, when Jeff Archuleta started calling all night and harassing her in her room that Tiffany and her parents told producers. It became so intense that the producers of Star Search had a meeting and BANNED him from the lot. The only performance that he was allowed to attend was the finale. (He was sat near security)…. David lost in the end to Tiffany Evans and she got the title!
Here’s Tiffany Evans the little girl who survived the attacks of Jeff Archuleta, and went on to win the Grand Champion title.
Luckily, David Archuleta is the next American Idol so we probably won’t see a repeat, and Jeff learned his lesson.
David went on to sing “Imagine” (yes, the same arrangement he sang on Idol) on a local morning program, but was never signed with a record deal.
Oh, how times change.
