The american idol final 3, Elliott Yamin, Taylor Hicks, and Katharine McPhee all visited their hometowns this week with Fox’s AMerican Idol Camera’s in tow. There was a lot of Idol news and gossip this week ending 5-13-06. Let’s recap:Â
Voting mix-up? Re-Count for Chris Daughtry?
American Idol sent rocker Chris Daughtry home Wednesday night, but Daughtry’s fans aren’t quite ready to let him go. At least one online petition, with more than 16,000 names attached, is calling for a recount of the American Idol votes.
MSNBC.com has received numerous e-mails and bulletin board posts claiming that voters who dialed the first of Daughtry’s two phone numbers were greeted by a recorded message from Idol singer Katharine McPhee, thanking the caller for voting for her. According to Wednesday night’s show, McPhee received the second-lowest number of votes, after Daughtry.
Tracey Adams, a family friend of Daughtry’s, said fans from his North Carolina hometown were among those who heard another contestant’s voice when calling for Daughtry.
One fan wrote: ‘They had another voting mess-up. When I called to vote for Chris, Katharine says `Thanks for voting for me.’ I thought I dialed the wrong number, so I tried again, to hear Katharine, again. People were trying to vote for Chris — not Katharine! That’s why Chris went home. GRRRR. REDO please!”
Other voters claimed that they were able to get through on both of Daughtry’s numbers and heard his voice, not McPhee’s. Still others said that despite calling solidly for two hours, they were never able to get through and place a vote for Daughtry.
FOX was not able to immediately respond to a request for comment Friday morning.
The news wasn’t all bad for Daughtry this week. Thursday night on Extra he was offered a job with the band Fuel, from bass player Jeff Abercrombie and guitarist Carl Bell.
”Chris, if you are watching, we’ve talked about this before, and if you want to entertain it again, we’ll take it and go,” Abercrombie said.
Daughtry performed the band’s song Hemorrhage on a recent Idol show.
In other Idol news, with the field filtered down to the final three, Paula Abdul has cast her lot in the competition.
”I am going to be honest with you — I want Elliott [Yamin] to win,” she tells Teen People, crediting herself in part for “making America wake up and see the talent that Elliott possesses.”
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