Clay Aiken Slams "Frightening" Adam Lambert: He Makes My "Ears Bleed"

Us Magazine - May 22, 2009 5:03 PM PDT
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Clay Aiken is no fan of fellow Idol runner-up Adam Lambert.

"Now that it's all over, and for the record... I couldn't be happier about the way AI ended this year," the Season 2 second-place finisher wrote on his official fan site.

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"I only turn the show on once a season, and only to see what the set looks like each year. This year, I happened to turn it during the minute that Adam Lambert was singing 'Ring of Fire' and, at that moment, thought my ears would bleed. Contrived, awful, and slightly frightening!

"I wasn't really a fan and found myself surprised whenever folks told me that they liked him," Aiken went on. "Granted, I never saw another performance (and many folks who I trust said that he was great) but I can't imagine I would have enjoyed it. Just not my cup of tea at all."

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Aiken -- who admits he never saw Kris Allen sing on the show -- calls this year's winner "likable."

He goes on to say that viewers voted against Lambert because of the "obvious bias" by judges.

"Not even having watched the show, I can tell you that I was WELL aware of the bias from the judges as to who should win," he says. "In my opinion, that is awfully unattractive. I don't think I am alone."

Aiken also slams Lambert -- who acted in the L.A. company of Wicked -- as having too much experience to be named the next Idol.

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"There may have been some folks who voted for myself or Ruben [Studdard] because they didn't like the other of us. I was the nerdy little girly boy who some didn't want to see win, so they may have voted for Ruben. I don't know...." adds Aiken, who never references his sexuality directly in the blog post. (Blogs speculated that Lambert, who has never officially confirmed if he's gay or straight, lost Idol because of his sexual preferences.)

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"But again, I feel that Ruben and I were fairly matched. We both had our detractors and negatives, but I feel we were both very worthy of being on that stage in that moment, and either of us would have been worthy of winning," Aiken says. "The show was different then, and folks made it in seasons 1-3 because they were 'real' people who happened to sing/entertain well. But, somewhere along the way, AI stopped being about real people."



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  • Amber
    Clay is one of the most hideous looking people I have ever seen! A total DOG!! who does he think he is?
    report abuseposted May 29, 2009 4:05 PM PDT
  • Amber
    Clay is one of the most hideous looking people I have ever seen! A total DOG!! who does he think he is?
    report abuseposted May 29, 2009 4:05 PM PDT
  • Kevin
    What's the music world coming to - Clay Aiken, an authority on music and entertainment? It's always the least talented who has the most to say!
    report abuseposted May 27, 2009 3:12 PM PDT
  • ji
    I THINK LOLAPEACH IS RIGHT ON, ALL CLAY NEEDS IS A BIG HUGE, YAH MAYBE SAUN PENN COULD GO OVER TO CLAY'S PLACE AND GIVE HIM A BIG JUICEY KISS ON THE LIPS THEN SAUN COULD MAYBE GIVE HIM A MASSAGE, YAH, LIKE START AT THE TOES THEN UP TO THE KNEES,IN THE BACK AREA, THEN SAUN COULD WISPER SWEET LITTLE 'I LUV U' AS HE REACHES FOR THE HOT OIL!!!!
    report abuseposted May 23, 2009 7:11 PM PDT
  • wat's up
    WAT'S UP WITH YOU PEOPLE, GIVE THE 'QUEER'Z A BREAK, HAVE SOME LOVE FOR CLAY AND ADAM,THE TWO OF THEM ARE LOVING MEN THAT ARE JUST MIXED UP ABOUT BEING HOMO'Z, PRAY FOR THEIR SOUL, AND THAT CLAY AND ADAM WILL CUMM TO THE REALIZATION THAT WOMEN ARE THE ONE'Z TO LOVE, THE 'QUEER'Z' CAN CHANGE, ALL IT WILL TAKE IS YOUR PRAYER'Z
    report abuseposted May 23, 2009 6:01 PM PDT
  • wat's up
    wat's up with all this 'queer' talk, cant you people see that clay and adam are just misunderstood young men try'in to find themselves!give them some love, those two men will cumm around and see that being a homo is wrong and that loving women is the right way to live their life,we MUST PRAY FOR THEIR SOULS, TO SAVE THEM FROM HELL!
    report abuseposted May 23, 2009 5:52 PM PDT
  • Andre
    I am sick of all these gay people thinking that somebody want to see them all the time imposing their will on people, and they are feuding amongst themsleves???lol who cares, i just want all the gays to move to an island of their own, with their sick asses, so that they will stop making me want to throw up.
    report abuseposted May 23, 2009 3:45 PM PDT
  • Very Soft
    Clay, sit your Gay ASS down somewhere.
    report abuseposted May 23, 2009 1:20 PM PDT
  • Peach
    How jealous is he? geeze who cares what he thinks about adam lambert adam is very talented but not everyone has the same taste but for him to insult someone like a 17 year old is really immature Im not a big AI fan but this is just really sad how he obviously has let whatever fame AI has brought to him go to his head so messed up
    report abuseposted May 23, 2009 5:55 AM PDT
  • KD
    They're Both TRASH and need to be SHOT!!!
    report abuseposted May 23, 2009 5:03 AM PDT
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