Clay Aiken Assures Fans After Artificially Inseminating Woman

Posted on June 5, 2008 by popdirt

Conan O’Brien joked during his Late Night monologue on Wednesday night, “ is in the news. Yep. announced that he’s gonna be a father by artificially inseminating a woman. Yeah. No, Aiken assured his fans, ‘Don’t worry, we won’t be doing it the icky way’.”

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TMZ: Clay Aiken Artificially Inseminated Jaymes Foster

Posted on May 30, 2008 by popdirt
TMZ.com has learned that 's record producer Jaymes Foster, who the 'American Idol' season two runner-up lives with while he is in Los Angeles, is pregnant with the 30-year-old's baby after being artificially inseminated using Clay's sperm. Foster, who is 50 years old (!), is due in August and TMZ hears Clay will have an active role in raising the child. Watch a report from 'Access Hollywood' on the story below.


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Clay Aiken Visits ‘Good Morning America’

Posted on May 11, 2008 by popdirt
'American Idol' season two runner-up visited ABC's 'Good Morning America' on Wednesday (May 7), where the 29-year-old talked about not having the time to watch the hit FOX show which launched his career, still being sore from his role in the Broadway production 'Spamalot', and the challenge to disconnect from the audience while stage acting, in contrast to singing before an audience. Watch the interview (a performance of 'Ashes' has since been removed) below.
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Clay Aiken Talks With ‘Backstage With Barry Nolan’

Posted on May 10, 2008 by popdirt
Sara Edwards of 'Backstage with Barry Nolan' had caught up with 'American Idol' season two runner-up . The 29-year-old talked about recently losing 20 pounds, learning more from bad things than from good things, and becoming more comfortable in his job as an artist. Video at YouTube has since been removed.
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Clay Aiken Visits ‘Today’

Posted on May 10, 2008 by popdirt
visited with the 'Today' show fourth hour hosts Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford to discuss his newly released fourth album 'On My Way Here' and his plum role in Broadway's 'Spamalot'. The 'American Idol' season two runner-up said he hadn't watched the FOX reality show that spawned his career in three years. "I sound horrible saying this. Do you go to your high school football games? You know after a while, I'm here because of 'American Idol', and I'll negate that." Clay also discussed his first job at Winn-Dixie, never getting tired of singing, and how 'As Long As We're Here' is his favorite song on the album. Watch the interview below the fold. Continue reading →
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Clay Aiken Fans Equated With Late ’60s ‘Lawrence Welk Show’ Viewers

Posted on May 7, 2008 by popdirt
Clay Aiken 'On My Way Here' album cover
Jim Farber of The New York Daily News reviewed 's new album 'On My Way Here', and was less than impressed with the 'American Idol' season two runner-up's latest effort, giving it only 1 out of 5 stars, and catching immediate heat from the legions of loyal Claymates in comments posted at the newspaper's web site. "Most of the songs Aiken chose present him as a lonely and longing figure, a role meant to make him even more sympathetic to a certain sect," Farber writes. "Essentially, they're the latter-day equivalents to those who clung to 'The Lawrence Welk Show' long after it lost its cultural resonance in the late '60s. To those folks - the last ostriches of the sexual revolution - Aiken remains an island of sanity, a final bastion of proud, neutered uncool." Read more, including the angry reaction, here.
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No Rumors For Clay Aiken To Clear Up, Except Why He Went Blonde

Posted on May 7, 2008 by popdirt
tells OK! magazine he has no rumors he wants to clear up, including that long speculated and much discussed one about his sexual preference. "At this point everyone knows everything," the 'American Idol' season two runner-up explained. "I had a fan a few years ago say 'I know everything about you except for what your favorite color is.' In that case, I'm never telling anyone my favorite color. I've stuck to it for five years - no one knows. For the most part, people know quite a bit. After five years, people have figured out as much as there is to know."

As Aiken nears his 30th birthday, he did hint at why he decided to go blonde. "I don't really know why we did this," he laughed. "With the dark hair, I felt I was looking old. I'll be completely honest with you. I'm sure I'm going to go back to the dark at some point just because the blond, I don't know, whatever. When I get my hair out from under the ['Spamalot'] wig, I'll be going back to the brown." Read more.
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Clay Aiken: I’m Not Trying To Be Justin Timberlake

Posted on May 6, 2008 by popdirt
spoke with The Associated Press about how when people think about hip pop singers, the 'American Idol' season two runner-up's name doesn't come first to mind. "I'm not cool, you know what I mean? I'm not gonna lie," the 29-year-old conceded. "I'm not trying to be . Thank God we have him, but I'm not him. ... I'm not gonna bring anybody's sexy back." Aiken's new album 'On My Way Here' is out today. Read more.
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Clay Aiken Won’t Tour This Summer

Posted on May 5, 2008 by popdirt
Fans of won't be happy to hear the 'American Idol' season two runner-up doesn't plan on hitting the road soon in support of his new album 'On My Way Here', out Tuesday. Instead, the 29-year-old will be enjoying the summer back home in North Carolina. "We're not touring actually," Aiken tells SheKnows.com. "I have not had two days off in a row since I don't know when. I know since September, between the Christmas tour, and then I did a UNICEF trip to Mexico, I came straight from there to New York to do rehearsals for 'Spamalot'. I'm in 'Spamalot' until May 4 and then I'll take the fifth off and then from then on we'll be promoting the new album for a few weeks straight. But after that, I'm going to sit down for a little bit." Aiken continued, "I'm going to just sit. To be honest, I haven't had any time off in the summer in five years. There was the 'Idol' tour, and then I toured on my own the next two years straight. The three years after that I have been steadily on the road during the summer. I'm interested in seeing what North Carolina's like during the summer. I've forgotten." The article at sheknows.com has since been removed.
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‘On My Way Here’ Becomes A Theme For Clay Aiken

Posted on May 5, 2008 by popdirt
spoke with Ricardo Baca of the Denver Post about his new single and title track off his new album, 'On My Way Here', a track written by OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder. Aiken said when he and producer Jaymes came across the track, it made such an impact with the 'American Idol' season two runner-up that they scrapped most of the previous songs they'd demoed. "When we heard that one a year ago, we changed the whole direction of the record," Aiken said. "We had no theme before. We were just going to make an album. But with this song, everything rang so true. Right there we started looking for songs that talked about something that I had experienced in the last five years or something that explored a feeling I'd had." Read more.
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