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Clay is featured alongside other idols over at Yahoo Music.

• Long Island Press - Clay's Meghan Mullally Show appearance is repeating on January 24. The show has since been canceled.
• Rocktown Weekly discovers why celebs don't like Evian water -

  Folks as diverse as Ashlee Simpson, Clay Aiken, Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Kerry and K-Fed all ban the stuff.
  What’s up?
  Eonline.com says it’s because probably because of a rumor involving the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
  They tracked down a celebrity caterer who says, yes, stars really are stupid enough to fall for the rumor that a radiation cloud from the Ukrainian power plant meltdown contaminated Evian’s water source in France.
  

• More AI mentions:
  
• Indiana Daily Student News - 'Idol' Fast Forward
  By Colin Dugdale has this to say about Clay:

  After powerhouse Tamyra Grey, from the first season, was voted off prematurely, I became skeptical about the legitimacy of the voting process. My suspicions were validated the next season, when two-ton Ruben Studdard was crowned the victor and Clay Aiken was given the silver medal. But where are they now? Clay Aiken recently released his third CD to national fanfare, and Ruben is working at the IU Bookstore.

• Reality TV World - 'American Idol 5' Rejects Making Music and Staying Out Of Trouble by Christopher Rocchio looks at what some of the past people who tried out for American Idol are now doing. Clay is mentioned in a paragraph about Michael Sandeki:

  Who could forget Michael Sandecki, the "Clay Aiken Doppelganger" who was joined on-stage by the Idol 2 runner-up during the show's May 24, 2006 fifth season finale? While he was visibly surprised at the chance to meet Aiken, Sandecki said he did some post-Idol soul searching.

• Santa Monica Mirror -

  Fox’s American Idol is now a reliable and non-stigmatized way to pick a super-star. Kelly Clarkson, Clay Aiken, Carrie Underwood, Taylor Hicks and this year’s sensation, Jennifer Hudson – plucked from obscurity and thrust headlong into the awards race. She may win an Oscar this year.

• Cincinnati Ledger-Enquirer -

  Tuesday's two-hour show earned a spot as Fox's second-biggest entertainment show ever, behind the Ruben Studdard-Clay Aiken "Idol" finale in 2003, according to McClatchy newspapers. It also marks the biggest ratings night for any entertainment show on television since the "Friends" finale in May 2004.

• New York Post repeats yesterday's Hollywood Reporter AI article mentioning Clay:

  Runner-up, positive pop prince, Clay Aiken has undoubtedly surpassed the velvet-voiced teddy bear who beat him, Ruben Studdard, in terms of headlines, recent album sales and strength of fan base.

• Bodog BEAT -

  The Fox reality TV show, which has been the nation’s most watched series for the past three years, saw its first episode of 2007 top the 2003 finale, when Clay Aiken beat Ruben Studdard. With so many people tuning in, Tuesday’s episode became the most watched installment in the show’s history.

• Earth Times - another similar mention.
• The Common Voice - what if American Idol judged weight loss instead of singing? "That's why livin' la vida low-carb has such potential to help millions of people. It's the Carrie Underwood, Clay Aiken, and Taylor Hicks of the dieting world for a whole lotta people. The best of the best, shining examples of what embodies the very essence of success."
  
• Kelly Ripa/Clay/O'Donnell mentions (yes... 2 months later!!!)
• Parthenon Times - "Also, you may remember it wasn't that long ago when Rosie also made a rude comment concerning Kelly Ripa and her recent guest Clay Aiken."

• Taking A Moment - while we're going through this drought, it's ok for a Claymate to dream and fantasize, right?

  And as the gentle, handsome and charismatic Lord Aiken began to woo her, all the ladies in the street had to take a moment and reflect on the line of his jaw, or the cut of his cheekbones, or the plumpness of his lips, or the way his expertly-tailored breeches showcased his gracefully refined buttockal area, and they began to swoon in unison, like drunken swallows over a meadow on a hot summery night.
  

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