the awesome/terrifying freedom

maryindiana writes in with a brilliant and much-neededd clay aiken update!

Just to update on "Clay News" a little old,but not too old.  I am lucky enough to be able to come home for lunch,so I see this horrible program called "Good Day Live". Two of the faux anchors are okay,one is a total skank.  The day that the Emmy nominations were announced,they called various celebrities to congratulate them. After pretty much the entire cast of "Everybody Loves Raymond" Reuben and Clay got calls. Clay first. He was thrilled and overwhelmed with the American Idol as best reality series nomination. They asked about his love life and if he had settled down with one girlfriend or was he playing the field. Hilarious. He said "Oh..it's just a lot of different girls right now,you know.."  and then when they tried to pin him down,name names or where he had been seen with these hos, he backed down "Oh..my love life is dry right now. I'm too busy for the ladies!"  All this in his sweet lilting voice. He is a cutie. Just come on out already!  THEN this was the killer. Rueben was called and asked about the nomination. "I dunno. I don't got nuthin' ta do wit that. I was just on it,you know?"  "Fair enough,Reuben,but aren't you happy for the producers of the show?"  "Yeah...I guess."  "So who are you taking to the Emmys? Do you have a girlfriend or will Clay be your date."  Reuben scoffed and said "Will Clay be my DATE? Awww hell NO! He ain't gonna be my date!"  I about fell off the couch laughing. He was pretty outraged even though I am sure the hosts meant it in that broad definition sense. Like Nicole Kidman's "date" to the Oscars was her Mom,etc.    

Jimmy Kimmel brought out a "Clay Aiken Action Figure" that is supposedly going to be on sale with Clay's album. It was a Barbie doll dressed like Clay and with her hair cut and spiked up like Clay's. The next night Jimmy showed a clip from some ABC/Disney dance contest where a guy gestured broadly and was too too fabulous dancing to Barry Manilow's 'Copacabana'. Jimmy apologized and took away Clay's 'title' of Queerest Man in America". Then he showed "Harrlem" the winner of "Fame" and apologized to the kid from ABC...
 
The women on Good Day Live seem to be obsessed with Clay Aiken. They talk about him ALL OF THE TIME.

oh dear. 'harlemm' really is the gayest 'man' in america. i wasn't able to watch 'fame' aside from the first couple episodes, but am glad to know that one of the nellyiest crybabies in the history of television can still win a poplularity contest.