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Just days after joining the American Idols Live tour following her recovery from bronchitis and laryngitis, Katharine McPhee, the second-place finisher is back on the disabled list after tripping backstage and fracturing her foot before a concert in North Carolina. The “American Idol” runner-up tripped backstage before a performance Tuesday night in Charlotte, N.C., said Roger Widynowski, a representative for McPhee’s record label, RCA.

Katharine McPhee went on with the show, singing two songs while wearing slippers. X-rays taken at a hospital afterward revealed a hairline fracture in her left foot, the Post says. “She’s in discomfort, but she’s fine,” said Roger Widynowski, a spokesman for RCA, “She will continue on the tour and is not defaulting.” Read more!

The season five Idol runner-up was forced to skip the opening nights of the American Idols Live! tour due to “severe bronchitis and laryngitis,” promoters announced just hours before the start of Wednesday’s sold-out show in Manchester, New Hampshire.
“I am disappointed and I am sorry to disappoint my fans who will be attending the start of the American Idols Live tour,” McPhee said in a written statement. However, she said, “I need to follow my doctor’s orders to recuperate and reunite with the rest of the Idols.”

She’s resting now but Extra ran a special on Thursday night that showed the curvaceous songstress decked out in a 1960’s style baby doll swim suit for an OK! Magazine photo shoot that she completed in Malibu right before her illness struck. Read more!