Tidbits 11/25

Here the cover of the new People Magazine special we told you about earlier this week. Young Clay is so cute! Thanks to There Was A Man for the scan.

• Lake County News Sun - winner of Waukegan, IL Christmas concert tickets announced! "this is mom's night out, and Clay Aiken is her star."
• AOL TMZ - this is hilarious... looks like the entire Kelly Ripa/Clay thing is falling flat on Kelly's face. TMZ labels Ripa this week's 2nd biggest "loser":

  Kelly Ripa: With her clay-footed handling of an American Idol's playful banter, Ripa inadvertently plunged into the treacherously shrill waters of "What's up with that?" Compounding matters, beyond Rosie's dark "View" of the matter, is the utterly unbelievable nature of Ripa's apology. She was worried about catching cold and flu season germs? To paraphrase a lyric from "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word," -- track five of Aiken's latest album -- "It's a sad, sad situation, and it's getting more and more absurd." Memo to Gelman: Wash, rinse, repeat.

• The Spoof - making satire out of Clay's "Kellygate" -

  Clay Aiken, MISTAKENLY thinking that he could shush Oprah Winfrey the way he did Kelly Rippa of Regis And Kelly found out the hard way which star in the heavens shines the brightest when he woke up in a New York City ICU unit asking for mama and a warm heating pad for the left side of what was left of the left side of his jaw.

• Wall Street Journal - Christmas CD ensures long lasting success -

  How does a pop artist ensure that his or her new album will live on for years? Give it a holiday theme. Years-old Christmas albums from artists such as 2003's "American Idol" star Clay Aiken and pop-opera group Il Divo have made a comeback on Billboard's "Top Holiday Albums" chart this year, alongside classics from Burl Ives and Elvis Presley.

• Clay is quoted in the latest issue of Soap Opera Digest about his upcoming appearance on Days of our Lives:

  "I didn't memorize my lines at all; I kind of made them up as I went along", he confesses. "I'm not very good at memorizing and so I thought I would just say what came naturally and fortunately they were willing to let me do that. Stephen and Mary Beth were just really phenomenal to work with. I can remember the words to my own songs much less words they write in the script for me".
  

Clay is on the homepage of AOL Music today. They have a nice photo of Clay lighting up the UNICEF Snowflake in NYC from last week. There's also a nice UNICEF Snowflake photo over @ Entertainment Tonight's website.

• ClaySpots- more hypocrisy from Kelly Ripa - more photos uncovered! (hey... there's one of Simon Cowell doing the 'hand' to Kelly... wonder why she didn't complain then!

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