Clay Aiken Trashes Adam Lambert

Clay Aiken—American Idol’s most famous runner-up—has painted a target on the show’s latest runner-up. On the members-only board on his website, Aiken said that listening to Idol’s surprise loser, Adam Lambert, made him think “my ears would bleed. Contrived, awful, and slightly frightening!” He went on to critique the show: “However, this year, there was an obvious bias. 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. In my opinion, that is awfully unattractive.” And he complained that, “somewhere along the way, AI stopped being about real people.”