Though ‘American Idol’ season five champ Taylor Hicks admits that he sometimes spent Tuesday night after the show at Burger King voting for himself, he also cast a few for his competitors. “I’d vote on the performance as opposed to who I liked as an artist,” he tells Rolling Stone. “I voted for Elliot [Yamin], for Chris [Daughtry] a couple of times, for Katharine [McPhee]. It was funny because we’d be in the apartment or somewhere and I’m like, ‘I’m voting for you, you know.’ And they’re like, ‘What?’”
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