Singer Jackie Evancho, who was a fifth-grader in the Pine-Richland School District when she placed runner-up on “America’s Got Talent” in 2010, returns to NBC next week to compete on “America’s Got Talent: The Champions” (8 p.m. Monday, WPXI-TV).
Ms. Evancho will compete for the title of “Champion” alongside 50 other contestants — from the U.S. and 194 other countries — in this new spinoff series.
Since her first go-around on “AGT,” Ms. Evancho has appeared at the inauguration of President Donald Trump, took to social media to express her dismay with the Trump administration’s revocation of federal protections for transgender students, released a new album in 2017 and appeared on a TLC special, “Growing Up Evancho,” that same year.
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First Published: February 2, 2019, 1:08 a.m.
