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News Source: Sacramento Bee
| 6 months ago
Two days after the "American Idol" finale, there's no looking back for winner Kris Allen and runner-up Adam Lambert (pictured). They've been on every L.A.-based TV/radio show possible, and now it's time to head to New York and all the folks who want...
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News Source: China News
| 6 months ago
Kris Allen's upset victory over glam rocker Adam Lambert drew the smallest "American Idol" finale audience since 2004, slowing the television ratings juggernaut and posing questions about the future of some of its key players. Preliminary figures...
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News Source: Los Angeles Times
| 6 months ago
Throughout this season of "American Idol," Adam Lambert was widely proclaimed to be the front-runner, even by the notoriously fickle Simon Cowell , who called him a brilliant artist, showman and "worldwide star." Victory by Kris Allen is such a...
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News Source: The New York Observer
| 6 months ago
At a certain point, mid-way through the incredibly-long-seeming two plus-hour finale last night, I began to get a feeling this was the way it was going to go down, and then it went...Ever since that terrible Gokey mess got voted off, I told myself it...
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News Source: ITN
| 6 months ago
A host of A-list celebrities attended the eighth season finale of American Idol, which saw Adam Lambert and Kris Allen go head to head. It was 23-year-old Arkansas student Allen who dealt an unexpected defeat to runaway favourite Lambert, a 27-year-...
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News Source: BDNews24
| 6 months ago
Arkansas student Kris Allen won the eighth season of "American Idol" on Wednesday, dealing an unexpected defeat to singing rival Adam Lambert on the most popular U.S. television show. Allen, 23, who won over audiences with his all-American good looks...
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News Source: Salon
| 6 months ago
See, even Kris Allen knew it was not supposed to go down like this. The title was supposed to go to Adam Lambert, whose daring performances all season turned the predictable show into must-see TV. We haven't had a contestant with his kind of...
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News Source: Arkansas Democrat Gazette
| 6 months ago
Minutes before Kris Allen became the newest "American Idol," a producer for the Fox television show instructed a crowd in downtown Conway to cheer for their neighbor, fellow churchgoer and friend...When Ryan Seacrest, host of the long-running...
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News Source: BBC
| 6 months ago
Student Kris Allen has been named the surprise winner of the eighth season of American Idol. The 23-year-old from Arkansas beat favourite Adam Lambert, 27, to the title in Wednesday's finale. "I'm sorry, I don't even know what to feel right now...
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News Source: CNN
| 6 months ago
But Lambert, a 27-year-old former understudy in the touring production of "Wicked," was heavily favored as the frontrunner throughout Season Eight. Allen , a 23-year-old missionary from Conway, Arkansas, had built up a loyal following that seemed to...