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• Faye Parker, Clay's mom, is walking for Cystic Fibrosis. Go to Faye's "Great Strides" home page if you would like to donate toward her fundraising goal of $1500. Good luck Faye!
• Tiffers66 at The Clayboard tells us of a Clay mention in the movie "Scary Movie 4": "It's in Scary Movie 4 in one of the deleted scenes. One of the main characters is trying to get to Chingy (a rap star) but there's too many fans in the way so the girl says "Look it's Clay Aiken!" and all the fans go running to find Clay."
• The Republican - Short Clay mention in this Idol-related article ... "Past participants who have become successful recording artists include Kelly Clarkson, Clay Aiken and Carrie Underwood."
• Topix.com - quotes Clay from Us Weekly ...

  'I'm so jealous, because I was considered the most successful 'Idol' loser, and now I'm not. Jennifer Hudson has won a Golden Globe. ... Now I'm second place again.'
  
  - Clay Aiken in Us Weekly

• This is one of the saddest things 19E has done yet... "Idol boot camp" for kids between the ages of 12 and 15... uhh....
• E! News - "Idol Camp will cost aspiring Kelly Clarksons and Clay Aikens $2,900 for a 10-day session, four of which will take place this summer at a private school in Massachusetts."
• XMF (blog) - "For just $2090, 700 "lucky" children can be pushed by their showbiz parents into a "non-competitive" (yeah, right) boot camp for aspiring Clay Aiken and Will Youngs."
• Newsday - American Idol's biggest showstoppers - "Season 2: Clay Aiken, "Solitaire" - He aced this Neil Sedaka song."
• Microsoft XBox.com - random Clay mention in this gaming article ... "So if you want to fight to Clay Aiken, you can plug in your Zune or other MP3 device and give someone an Icon style beatdown while jamming to an Idol."

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