Guitarist Tim Farriss knew his band INXS was taking a risk by choosing its new lead singer with the help of a TV reality series. "Oh, yes, it was fraught with danger," Farriss said during a phone ...

For a few weeks in 2005, Nova Scotia native J.D. Fortune was living in his car in Toronto with his pug, Presley. Listening to the radio, Fortune, then 31, heard an ad talking about auditions for an ...