The Chicago Sun-Times reports Clay Aiken is reaching out to ‘American Idol’ finalist Adam Lambert to be a part of his upcoming duets album. When the ‘Idol’ season two runner-up showed up in Hollywood, the FOX show wasn’t putting up the welcome sign. “Everyone knows – and certainly Clay knows – he’s persona non grata around here,” a source told Bill Zwecker.
The chilly reception Aiken received is due to his exit from 19 Entertainment, making him the first ‘Idol’ to dump the management company. The staff insider added that Aiken was able to convince Kelly Clarkson to exit 19 as well.
The full story at suntimes.com has since been removed.
Oh good grief. The Chicago paper is merely quoting a completely made-up story from the Enquirer – a tabloid, get it? Aiken took his baby son to the studio a couple of Mondays ago. The contestants are NEVER at the studio on Mondays, Aiken knows that. He has plenty of friends there who wanted to see his child. That’s all that happened. The rest is total bullsh**.