Clay Aiken Shows Up At SNL Rehearsals?

Clay may have attended a dress rehearsal yesterday's Saturday Night Live in New York City. The is SPECULATION that Clay also met up with RCA Records executives (in NYC) to talk about the sophomore album.

From the ClayAiken.com message board:

Hey all,

I've never posted here before, but I just wanted to share that I was in the audience for the SNL dress rehearsal earlier this evening, and thanks to a very nice camera man (who took a shot of the audience about halfway through the show, and then lingered on one particular red head), I learned that I had been sitting about 30 feet away from Mr.McDreamyAiken for the past hour. EEEEK!

So I spent the rest of the show straining my neck (and looking like a fool to the people around me) to try to see as much of Clay as I could. Sooo ... for those of you wanting to get you stalker on (like me), here's what I got:
He was with a very cute blonde spikey haired boy.
He was wearing a baggy green sweater with a blue button down shirt underneath and dark jeans
His hair is more red than I thought it was
He didn't seem to laugh too much (at least not as much as the nbc news lady did who was also sitting close to us)
Amy Poehler and Rachel Dratch kept waving up to him at the end, and it took him forever to notice ... when he finally did notice he just gave a shy smile and thumbs up

and, here's the kicker

When it was time to go, he just walked out of the studio with all of us little people! No SNL staff person ushering him quickly away ... he and his friend just walked out with the crowd. A few people came up to him to say hello and shake his hand. He was very gracious to everyone, of course. I was too nervous to approach him, even though for a good thirty seconds I was walking behind him and was close enough to "grab his tush", according to my friend.

As we left the studio, Clay and Pal went into some SNL or Special People Only area ... so my mild stalking ended there.

That's my story ... I just felt the need to share how Clay made my SNL experience even better than expected (now if Jake Gyllenhaal had shown up to support his friend, host - the awesome Peter Sarsgaard, it would have been totally perfect.)

Another poster on a non-Clay website posted this, validating the first post from the ClayAiken.com message boards.

Attending Saturday Night Live was a load of fun and little did I know, my girlyfriend Heidi had never before attended a television show taping. (Her going to a Dr. Ruth Westheimer show nearly 15 yrs ago doesn't count.) I was stunned as this woman is always out doing / seeing something, so I am doubly glad I asked her to go. If you stayed up late enough, you may have caught the sketch that almost was a complete disaster. Peter Sarsgaard was in a hotel room and couldn't find his remote to turn off the annoying hotel service channel that kept repeating for hours on end. At one point he hits the tv out of frustration which made the tv shut off. It was NOT supposed to shut off! They had to cut to Rachel Dratch while someone fixed the problem. The rehearsal version was really hilarious but knowing live television was going horribly wrong was even better. Clay Aiken was in the audience. Odd. And Drew Barrymore did a surprise little pop in during Weekend Update. Heidi was over the moon.

...and this surfaced at the CH, defending the validity of the second report, above.

the second poster from Feedster has a regular blog and has posted since 2002. According to her bio, she is a PR & promotions person & had written the day before about attending SNL the next night. It appears to me that she is legit. She just added a note to Clay fans, after getting a lot of blog hits that she was surprised to see him in the rafters.

Clarification: For all the Clay Aiken fans (holy cow, he's popular) coming to check out my account of last night. Clay was at rehearsal not at the actual on air show. I found it odd that he was in the rafter seating and didn't manage to get a better seat.