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  New 'American Idol' champ Jordin Sparks a big Sanjaya Malakar fan

  June 4, 2007
  Jordin Sparks may be American Idol's sixth-season winner, but she's also apparently a "fanjaya."
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  'American Idol 6' Top 3 to perform on NBC's Fourth of July special

  June 1, 2007
  NBC is planning an Idolicious Fourth of July.
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  Jordin Sparks talks about being crowned 'American Idol's new champ

  May 25, 2007
  Last summer 17-year-old Jordin Sparks said she was focused on getting her drivers' license, which happened just before she ventured from her native Glendale, AZ to Seattle, WA to audition for American Idol's sixth season.
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  Jordin Sparks beats Blake Lewis to win Fox's 'American Idol'

  May 24, 2007
  "The Great Singer" beat "The Great Entertainer" as Jordin Sparks defeated Blake Lewis and won American Idol's sixth season title during Wednesday night's live two-hour season finale of the smash-hit Fox reality talent competition.
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  Simon Cowell: I can't call 'American Idol' finale, Melinda cut was 'unfair'

  May 21, 2007
  Despite having watched every one of Jordin Sparks and Blake Lewis' performances prior to the two becoming American Idol's sixth season Top 2 finalists, judge Simon Cowell said the competition is just too close to call.
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  Ousted 'Idol' finalist Melinda Doolittle served as "the momma"

  May 18, 2007
  Melinda Doolittle described American Idol's 12 sixth-season finalists as "one big, happy family," and she had the honor of serving as its matriarch.
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  'Idol' finalist Melinda Doolittle "had an idea" she'd be going home

  May 17, 2007
  If home viewers, the studio audience and even the judges were shocked at the outcome of last night's American Idol live results show that revealed the sixth season's Top 2 finalists, imagine how Melinda Doolittle must have felt.  But apparently she wasn't as surprised as one might think when she discovered she'd be leaving the competition.
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  'American Idol' cuts Melinda Doolittle, sets up Jordin vs. Blake finale

  May 17, 2007
  Hopefully American Idol judge Simon Cowell isn't a betting man.  In a somewhat surprising result -- and one Cowell wasn't expecting -- Idol eliminated Melinda Doolittle during Wednesday night's live broadcast of the Fox reality show's penultimate results show, clearing the way for Jordin Sparks and Blake Lewis to compete in next week's sixth season Idol finale.
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  'American Idol's sixth season Top 3 take the stage and perform

  May 16, 2007
  Threes were wild last night when American Idol's sixth season Top 3 took the stage, as each performed three songs and had three phone numbers for viewers to call and vote for which two would compete in next week's finale.
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  Ousted 'Idol' finalist Lakisha Jones dishes on Cowell kiss, Sanjaya

  May 11, 2007
  Every contestant in American Idol's history -- be it an untalented hopeful or eventual winner -- has felt the sharp-tongue of Simon Cowell.  But recently ousted American Idol sixth season finalist Lakisha Jones is the only one who also knows what his lips feel like.

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