David Archuleta Going On Mormon Mission For Two Years

There will not be any David Archuleta music for the next two years. The former American Idol contestant announced last night at a show in his hometown of Salt Lake City that he is taking two years off from his career to go on a mission for his Mormon church.

"I would like to make a special announcement: that I've chosen to serve a full-time mission. It's not because somebody told me that I was supposed to do it, not because that I no longer want to do music anymore, but it's because it's the feeling that I felt that I need to do next in my life. It's just the same feeling that I've always followed, tried to follow in my life. It's the feeling that has allowed me to have the opportunities that I've had, the challenges that I've overcome and the blessings, too. And I've learned to trust that feeling, and I've learned that I need to answer when it calls. And that is the reason why I know I need to do this in my life."

You know what? Good for him. If this is something he feels he needs to do then I am glad he is putting personal ahead of career and there will be his whole life for music.

Excluding The Whole Buying Sex Thing Did Jeff Archuleta Do The Right Thing?

Apparently when you are in Salt Lake City news moves a little slower in the celebrity world. Not that a father of an American Idol runner-up is necessarily a celebrity except that he wants to be. Anyway, if Jeff Archuleta lived in LA I think his arrest for soliciting prostitution would have become known in less than the six months it took in this case.

Back in January, David Archuleta's dad was getting umm massaged when the police was raided. He was the only customer which must have sucked for him and he is probably still thinking he is cursed. I think it is because he was such an a-hole on Idol and deserved it. So, the cops raid the place and find Jeff without any clothes on, but NOT actually being serviced sexually. So, the cops ask him if he had been serviced sexually and he admitted he had. Now, excluding the fact that he is a general prick and he was getting serviced at a massage parlor, one part of me says that he didn't lie to the cops and just took his punishment. The other part of me wants to call him an idiot because they had no proof. It isn't like they were going to bring in a CSI team and black light the place or something. And you know the woman in question wasn't going to admit anything and so he would have got away with it. He wouldn't have been arrested and wouldn't have had gossip sites writing about it all day.

Jeff's lawyer was spinning all the way to the end here. Even after Archuleta pleaded no contest, Jeff's lawyer said it was just because Jeff didn't have time to waste with a trial and that Jeff was getting legitimate massage therapy for his back. Oh, and his front.