Clay Aiken recently had an interview with Newsweek about making his Broadway debut in Spamalaot that quickly turned sour. The interview started normally, but when the interviewer started asking about his public feuds, Aiken started to get upset!
From the interview:
How did you get into a fight with that lady on a plane?
I’m not going to talk about it.
I was just curious because you’ve never talked about it.
I did talk about it.
What about the Kelly Ripa thing?
I’m not going to discuss it.
Did you think it was homophobic?
I’m not going to discuss it.
What do you want to talk about?
I think we’re done.
Can we talk about something fun?
No, we’re done. I thought NEWSWEEK would be more reputable. I’m surprised.
But I think people are curious about it.
It was a year ago. This is NEWSWEEK. It’s not the National Enquirer. I’d hate to have a job where I had to be rude to people.
We’re just having a conversation.
Change the subject! I’d never take a job where I had to do something that I didn’t want to do.
What about all those Ford commercials on “American Idol”?
That wasn’t a job.
It was part of your job.
It wasn’t a Ford commercial. It was a music video. It was a completely different thing.
I’ll change the subject. What do you do for fun?
I watch the news. I read news magazines, but I’m reconsidering that now.
Are you going to watch “Idol”?
I haven’t watched since season four. I compare it to high-school football–if it weren’t for high school, we wouldn’t be successful, but I don’t need to keep going to the football games.
Ooh, you do not want to make Clay mad!
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1 Clay Aiken Gets Irked by Newsweek « JEBBICA // Jan 14, 2008 at 1:30 am
[...] but when the interviewer started asking about his public feuds, Aiken started to get upset! Read interview here [...]
2 American Idol Fan Site | Who got voted off American Idol » Clay Aiken Wants Us to 'Leave Britney Alone!!' // Jan 16, 2008 at 3:35 pm
[...] Jared is reporting that Clay is still sore over his Newsweek interview. Clay Aiken spoke to ET on the NYC set of his Broadway show Spamalot about his refusal to answer [...]
3 ginger carol // Jan 18, 2008 at 10:44 am
I’d think it would be clear to any reporter by now that once Clay Aiken agrees to discuss the same topic a couple of times, he is not going to be willing to continue the same discussion in subsequent interviews. Reporters already know this, so why do they continue to ask the very questions they know he will not be willing to discuss again?
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