''Ídolos'' is a

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reality television Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unfamiliar people rather than professional actors. Reality television emerged as a distinct genre in the early 19 ...

show based on the popular British show

Pop Idol ''Pop Idol'' is a British music competition television series created by Simon Fuller which ran on ITV from 2001 to 2003. The aim of the show was to decide the best new young pop singer (or "pop idol") in the UK based on viewer voting and par ...

. The show is a contest to determine the best young singer in Portugal. The first two seasons were hosted by Sílvia Alberto and Pedro Granger. The show, then went to a sort of hiatus, and, after only a lukewarm reaction by the viewers for season two, the show has officially been replaced by another casting show on its broadcast station, ''Família Superstar'', which ended in 2008. After an absence for four years the show returned for a third season to SIC in fall 2009 now with

João Manzarra João Maria Manzarra is a Portuguese television host mainly on the Portuguese SIC Radical network and best known as co-host for the reality television show '' Ídolos'', the Portuguese version of the ''Idol series'' for three years and is now ...

and Cláudia Vieira hosting. Season 3 finished in February 2010, and Season 4 started in September. Ídolos had three audition cities to find the best talent in all of Portugal, including:

Porto Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropol ...

, Beja and

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. However, in the third and fourth seasons, auditions were made in

, Aveiro,

Portimão Portimão () is a city and a municipality in the district of Faro, in the Algarve region of southern Portugal. The population in 2011 was 55,614, in an area of 182.06 km2. It was formerly known as Vila Nova de Portimão (). In 1924, it was ...

and

Estoril Estoril () is a town in the Municipality of Cascais, Portugal, on the Portuguese Riviera. It is a tourist destination, with luxury hotels, beaches, and the Casino Estoril. It has been home to numerous royal families and celebrities, and has host ...

. The show did not return in fall 2011 but instead returned in 2012. The show is currently on hiatus since late 2012, since then their timeslot for 2013 has been taken over by ''Factor X'', the Portuguese version of ''

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''.

Hosts

In the first and second season: *

Pedro Granger Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for ''Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter. The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning " ...

Sílvia Alberto Sílvia Alberto (born 18 May 1981) is a Portuguese television presenter and actress, currently employed by Rádio e Televisão de Portugal. She began her career in 2000, presenting ''Clube Disney'' on RTP1. She was one of the hosts of the 2018 ...

In the third, fourth and fifth season: *

Cláudia Vieira Cláudia Patrícia Figueira Vieira (born 20 June 1978) is a Portuguese actress, model and television presenter. As a model, she has appeared on the Portuguese magazine covers of ''FHM'' and '' GQ''. Vieira has also appeared regularly in the Po ...

Jury

In the first and second season: * Sofia Morais * Manuel Moura dos Santos *

Luis Jardim Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...

* Ramón Galarza In the third and fourth season: * Manuel Moura dos Santos * Laurent Filipe *

Roberta Medina ''Roberta'' is a musical from 1933 with music by Jerome Kern, and lyrics and book by Otto Harbach. The musical is based on the novel ''Gowns by Roberta'' by Alice Duer Miller. It features the songs " Yesterdays", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", " Le ...

* Pedro Boucherie Mendes In the fifth season: * Manuel Moura dos Santos * Bárbara Guimarães *

Tony Carreira António Manuel Mateus Antunes (born 30 December, 1963), known professionally as Tony Carreira, is a Portuguese singer and musician. Born in the small rural locality of Armadouro, Pampilhosa da Serra, he moved to Paris at age 10 with his emigrant ...

* Pedro Abrunhosa

Season 1

Semifinal qualifiers

Top 30 Format: three out of ten making the final each week and one Wildcard Notes: # Because Mariline Hortigueira withdrew Nádia Pimentel, who placed 4th in group 3, replaced her in the top 10.

Finals elimination chart

Top 10 * Nuno Norte was crowned the first Portugal Idol on 2 January 2004. Ricardo Oliveira came in second place. * In third place, we have had a woman. Luísa Sobral may have come in 3rd place, but nowadays, she is a popular and known artist and has also done an album. Luísa Sobral is Salvador Sobral's sister (7th place in

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Elimination chart

Season 2

Elimination chart

* After the show,

Luciana Abreu Luciana Abreu Sodré Costa Real (born 25 May 1985) is a Portuguese singer, actress and television host. Luciana Abreu is known for her participation in ''Idolos'', for representing Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 as part of the pop- ...

and

Raquel Guerra Raquel Guerra (born 11 November 1985) is a Portuguese singer and actress. She was born in Elvas. One of the finalists of the Portuguese Idols, along with Luciana Abreu and they both worked in the soap-opera Floribella ''Floribella'' is a s ...

participated in "Floribella". Later, Raquel has participated in "Família Superstar". And even later, Luciana won the second season of "A Tua Cara Não me é Estranha".

Hosts

Jury

Season 1

Semifinal qualifiers

Finals elimination chart

Elimination chart

Season 2

Elimination chart

Season 3

Season 4

Season 5

Season 6

Season 7

References

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