“I’m not going to deny that the word ‘homewrecker’ is floating around,” a friend of the singer reveals in Star’s Nov. 30 issue.

According to Star: Fantasia, 25, first met 30-year-old Antwaun Cook, a hunky former college football player from Charlotte, N.C., while he was working at his T-Mobile store in August — and the attraction was instant. By mid-September, the insider says, Antwaun, who also works as a real estate agent, dumped his teacher wife and their sons, ages 4 and 1, and moved into Fantasia’s $1.3 million mansion in Charlotte’s ritzy suburb of Piper Glen.

But pals say Fantasia’s tawdry affair with Antwaun is based on more than just sex; the former teen mom has set her sights on becoming the new Mrs. Cook and even tattooed her man’s last name on her left shoulder to match one he has.

“She got it to honor her man!”

American Idol Season 3 winner Fantasia Barrino is set to return to reality television in a new unscripted series on VH1.

The project will chronicle the nine-time Grammy-nominated singer’s life as a recording artist and young single mother.

“Fantasia’s life has been an open book, but at 24 years old, her story has just begun,” says executive producer Randy Barbato. “We look forward to smashing expectations and revealing the fresh, funny and unexpected side of this one-of-a-kind country girl and superstar.”

“Fantasia has one of the most fascinating stories in show business, from her tough upbringing to her meteoric rise on the national scene thanks to American Idol,’” Jeff Olde, Executive VP Original Programming at VH1, tells The Hollywood Reporter.

“Her challenges from fame and her unwillingness to fail have combined to create a larger-than-life talent who appeals to music lovers around the world. So many people wanted to work with her on this, but Fantasia is now part of the VH1 family, and we’re so happy to have her.”

The 24-year-old North Carolina native will reprise her role as “Celie” in The Color Purple: The Musical playing at the Kennedy Center in Washington this summer.

Fantasia’s VH1 reality show debuts early next year.

Fantasia will re-enroll in high school to earn her diploma, which has been a goal for the R&B star since she dropped out of ninth grade ten years ago.

“I’ve been talking about it for so long,” say the 24-year-old singer. “I have a lot of young people who look up to me, like my 15-year-old brother and 7-year-old daughter. It’s something that I really need to do and that I want to do.”

Fantasia Barrino has Simon Cowell to thank for paying off her debt and saving her Charlotte, North Carolina home from foreclosure last month.

The Mecklenburg County home was due to be auctioned off by the local Sheriff’s Office on January 12 , but the sale was called off at the last minute after Fanny reached a deal with financiers.

“Very quietly, Simon promised to help Fantasia take care of some of the back payments she owed so the house wouldn’t go on the block,” an informant has revealed to The National Enquirer.

“His offer of monetary support helped her stave off the creditors, at least for the time being. Simon didn’t want to take any credit for it, he just wanted to help her out of a jam. He was hoping to keep his good deed a secret. He didn’t want to cause Fantasia any further public embarrassment.”

Grammy-nominated singer is set to reprise her role as “Celie” in the Washington, DC musical production of The Color Purple, kicking off at The Kennedy Center this summer.

The former American Idol champ starred in the Broadway adaptation of Alice Walker’s famous novel in April 2007 to January 2008. During that time, Fanny missed more than 50 performance due to a tumor on her vocal chords, which has since been removed.

The Color Purple closed on Broadway in February 2008.

According to Black Voices columnist Jawn Murray: “Though news of Fantasia’s return is apparently being kept under wraps – well, until now – I’m told the producers of the show are eager to see the High Point, North Carolina native return to the production.”

“My source told me that the negative attention Fantasia received by the ‘New York Post’ in December of 2007 for missing 50 shows was unwarranted because the 24-year-old star single-handedly ‘made a truck load of money for that show.’”

Former American Idol Fantasia Barrino is in quite the financial pickle.

Fanny could lose her $1.3 million Charlotte, N.C., house in a debtor’s auction next Monday.

The Grammy-nominated singer reportedly owes a Florida credit company for a $65,000 she used to pay off back taxes in 2006. She made a payment on the loan in August 2007 in the amount of $10,000, but hasn’t made any others since. The company won the right to auction her North Carolina home, worth $1.3 million, for the remainder of the payment.

Mecklenburg County sheriff’s deputies, where the hosue is located, have reportedly attempted to contact Fantasia numerous times, with no response.

“We try very hard and give the defendant every opportunity to pay,” Sgt. J.W. England, a supervisor of civil judgments said Wednesday.

The national housing crisis has hit an American Idol. Fantasia Barrino is about to be evicted from one of her two Charlotte, North Carolina, homes, according to a new report.

The 6-bedroom mansion has been foreclosed on and will auctioned January 12 unless Fanny can make necessary payments on the $1.3 million home.

The eight-time Grammy-nominated singer’s recent duet with Jennifer Hudson, “I’m His Only Woman,” was just nominated for a Grammy.

Jamie: You are a helluva performer. That energy on that stage is just unbelievable. So we miss you with that. Now, getting back to the Color Purple. They were saying you had absences. It wasn’t that you didn’t want to work, but because your vocal cords kept shutting down or something? Tell me about that.
Fantasia: The tumor that was on my throat would make me very tired. And you know me, I’m a hard worker. I came out of the box working hard. I kept telling them that I’m getting very tired. It was like I couldn’t get enough sleep. And sometimes onstage, I could taste blood. I had braces on, so [I thought] maybe I’m biting my lip or I’m biting something in my gums or something. But I would taste blood every now and then. And what would happen was they would send me to the hospitals and they would say, “Well, she’s dehydrated; that’s what’s making her tired.” They would put IVs in me. But it just wasn’t enough. I kept saying, “I’m drinking water; it can’t be that, something else must be wrong.” And so after the Color Purple, after doing Clive Davis’s party, I had to do “I’m Here” that night and I remember waking up and I told my manager, I said, “Something is wrong. I’m so tired.” And I’m an Energizer bunny, so I know something ain’t right. I went to one of the best doctors in LA. He checked me out, he says, “Well, first of all, you have the flu and you have a sinus infection.” And he said, “But if you don’t mind, can I put a camera down your throat?” And so I let him look down my throat and I had a cyst, he said at first. He let me see it and I remember busting out crying and crying ’cause my vocal is my everything. I’ve been singing ever since I was a little baby and I’ve never experienced anything like that before. And in The Color Purple I play so many different ages from 14 to 30-something, so I was busting blood vessels. And so my mother came out and we all were just like, okay, we’re going to pray our way through this. I went into surgery and he came out and told my mother it was a tumor. It was a tumor.

More Of Fantasia’s Interview With Sister 2 Sister

Here is a video of American Idol Season 3 champ Fantasia Barrino performing “Bore Me” on the Idol 7 Semi-Finals Results Show.

Fantasia Barrino is “not pregnant,” a rep for the Broadway production The Color Purple said in a statement on Wednesday. The twenty-three year old former American Idol has issued the denial statement in response to reports that she is prego by rapper Young Dro.

“Fantasia is not pregnant and the Internet rumors are entirely untrue,” the rep claims.

The New York Post also stated that “an upcoming visit from the stork might explain the star’s numerous absences from the Broadway smash The Color Purple.”

The New York Daily News reported that Fantasia has missed over fifty performance of the Oprah Winfrey-produced stageplay since taking over the role of Celie earlier this year.

“It is true that she has missed some performances because she has gotten sick from time to time over the nine months, but doing eight shows a week is a lot so she missed a few.”