American Idol producers put Howard Stern in his place once and for all. For weeks, Stern has been claiming that somehow his 1,000,000 listeners were keeping American Idol bottom-feeder Sanjaya Malakar in the competition.
That bravado is now dead.
The morning after Sanjaya Malakar turned in another memorable, winning performance on American Idol and inspired an audience member’s sign that read “Sanjaya is my Papaya,” one of the show’s executive producers says that we at Tabloid Baby were correct when we reported that Howard Stern listeners have nothing to do with his success in the competition.
Ken Warwick says that even if all of Howard’s listeners voted– or if any other radio campaign was started– they wouldn’t make up the difference that Sanjaya has over the contestants below him–or above him– in the weekly phone-in votes.
Oh well. So much for that bullshit. But then again, this is Howard we’re talking about, so the truth is just an inconvenience in the end after all… I just love seeing people put him in his place.
via TVGasm
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