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New York Daily News'American Idol' stars vote to help charitiesNew York Daily News, NY - <nobr>44 minutes ago</nobr>By RICHARD HUFF The folks behind "American Idol" will again take a break in the competition to get people to open their wallets. Last year's "Idol Gives ...The sounds of Scarlett <nobr>Louisville Courier-Journal</nobr><nobr>all 2 news articles</nobr>
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Since both of this week's American Idol performance episodes were pre-taped, spoilers as to what the 10 remaining young ladies in the competition will be singing on tonight's installment have leaked. Click the photo of the remaining hopefuls if you want to know. (Warning: there's a song from Grease in there!) [MJ's Big Blog]
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While American Idol positions itself as the greatest singing competition in the history of the world--and, let's face it...It is! It really is!--it ... performs a crucial secondary service for which it too often goes uncredited: Introducing America to the Small Town Gay . more
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Now that his journey on American Idol is over, he isn't going to just head back home and sulk. In AOL's interview with Colton Berry, the young singer admitted that being on the number-one rated singing competition was but one of his dreams.
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In the days following his booting from American Idol, Josiah Leming made $15,000 off his MySpace page's Snocap store. And he was on Ellen today, too. Something tells me that Colton Berry and Garrett "No, Real My First Name Isn't 'Leif'" Haley are going to be sorta jealous of those numbers once the first few weeks of competition wrap up! [MTV]
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As influential reality shows go, AMERICAN IDOL is right up there with The Real World and Survivor. Originally inspired by the British series Pop Idol, the reality competition juggernaut has gone on to inspire multitudes of other similarly structured series, from Nashville Star to America's Got Talent.
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