clay aiken
Flotsam & Jetsam
Gossip Roundup: Aiken’s Beef Squashing, Beyonce Says “Stay Fat”
1:00AM Foster Kamer | Good Sunday morning! Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen spawning, Keifer Sutherland, Clay Aiken, and Giada De Laurentiis squashing separate (but equal!) beefs, Robert Pattinson gets some Can(nes), and Beyonce sez: “avoid the gym.” More »
Small Screen
Clay Aiken Trashes American Idol, Adam Lambert
12:15PM the cajun boy | Last night millions of American Idol fans tuned in to watch the show’s season finale. But you know who didn’t? Clay Aiken, who basically trashed everything about the show today on the subscription-only message board of his website, going so far as to say Adam Lambert made his ears bleed! More »
Kathy Griffin/Clay Aiken Encounter Leaves One Wounded
9:03AM Kyle Buchanan | When Hollywood’s best and brightest finally look for signs leading up to today’s stripper-consuming, Dark Lord-producing Pop Cultural Doomsday, we have a feeling they’ll find a trail of dark psychic energy leading all the way back to the day before Thanksgiving, when NBC aired a televised ritual of evil incantations known as Rosie Live! It was here that the stage was no doubt set for our destruction, and accordingly, comedienne Kathy Griffin adopted a “what the hell” attitude and attempted to mend fences with longtime foil Clay Aiken backstage. Sadly, even the impending end of the world couldn’t produce warm feelings from Aiken: More »
Clay Aiken and Fans Begin Long, Bombastic Journey Toward Mutual Acceptance
2:00AM Kyle Buchanan | Do you recall the Great Keening of September 24, as if a million Claymates cried out at once, and then were silenced? That was the dark day that American Idol alum Clay Aiken broke the devastating news that he was, in fact, a “gay,” sending his dumbstruck fans into a tailspin (as NClayolina memorably put it, “I will never be able to listen to him sing, ‘O Holy Night,’ knowing he desires unholy nights”). Now, as the tears on so many Garfield pillowcases begin to dry, Aiken has finally blogged to his fans about the revelation, and instead of self-flagellating, he has one polite message for the Claymates: “Deal with it.” More »
8:15AM Kyle Buchanan | Get Used To It: Just when we thought we were done with today’s People-led insurrection of the Claymates, this post from “NClayolina” pulls us back in: “I will never be able to listen to [Clay Aiken] sing, ‘O Holy Night,’ knowing he desires unholy nights.” [The Clayboard] More »
‘Claymates’ React With Shock to Startling New Revelation That Clay Aiken Is Gay
5:05AM Kyle Buchanan | While not everyone is surprised by Clay Aiken’s decision to come out of the closet (speaking to Extra, Simon Cowell said dryly, “It’s like being told Santa Claus isn’t real”), there is one sort of person who’s had to take the workday off to burn Anthropologie candles and listen to “Bridge Over Troubled Water” on repeat, and she is the “Claymate.” Aiken’s most ardent fans are predictably in a lather about the revelation, with reactions running the gamut of the Kübler-Ross cycle of grief (albeit with more emoticons). More »
Inside Clay Aiken’s Unforeseen Revelation That He Is, In Fact, ‘A Gay’
2:30AM Kyle Buchanan | Now that America has had time to process yesterday’s shocking bombshell that Clay Aiken is gay (and now that Debbie from accounting has gotten her breathing under control), People magazine has released excerpts from their exclusive cover interview. In it, Aiken discusses coming out to his mother four years ago, a rocky experience that may have prepared him for the real hurdle: weathering reaction from millions of hysterical Claymates. More »
Clay Aiken: ‘Yes, I’m Gay.’ World: ‘Yes, We Knew’
7:37AM Kyle Buchanan | Joining Lindsay Lohan in declaring today a holiday for finally confirming open, same-sex secrets, Clay Aiken has come out of the closet. In an edition of People magazine to be published tomorrow, Aiken poses with his newborn son Parker and confirms the rumours that have dogged the singer since he belted out his first glory note on American Idol. More »
Immaculate Male Pop Star Conception Month Continues With Twins For Ricky Martin!
6:55AM Defamer Hollywood | When word came over the wires that Us Weekly was breaking the news, “Singer Ricky Martin Welcomes Twin Boys”… well, let’s just say that headline promises a different article than the one we got. Still: congratulations are in order for the pop singer, who’s followed in the footsteps of Clay Aiken and become a new father. Says Us: More »
