Jordin Sparks Is The New American Idol
Filed Under TV News by Skoopz
Jordin Sparks captured wide audience votes to beat beat-boxing opponent Blake Lewis and become the youngest American Idol winner ever.
“Mom, Dad, I love you,” Sparks, 17 and the daughter of retired NFL player Phillippi Sparks, said tearfully after a bearhug from Lewis.
The Finals Night pulled out the stops and the stars, with Gwen Stefani, Tony Bennett, Bette Midler, Green Day and more singing.
The two-hour show opened with Lewis and Sparks dueting on the Beatles “I Saw Her Standing There,” followed quickly by a touring Stefani singing “4 in the Morning” via satellite from Massachusetts.
Midler took the stage as the show came toward its close, singing “The Wind Beneath My Wings.”
Hundreds of “American Idol” fans lined Hollywood Boulevard leading up to the theater before the show.
Despite the big night, Simon Cowell, couldn’t help takling about Melinda Doolittle and what wasn’t to be. “I’m pleased for the two of them,” Cowell said of Sparks and Lewis. “They’re nice kids. But I would have liked to have seen one of them up against the big singer.”
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