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IS IT POSSIBLE FOR AN AMERICAN IDOL American Idol is an annual American televised singing competition, which began its first season on June 11, 2002. Part of the Idol franchise, it originated from the British reality program Pop Idol.  to be gay? When it comes to Fox's red-hot talent search series American Idol, it seems that issue is open to debate. One day after The Buzz became aware that 19-year-old contestant Jim Verraros James Conrad Verraros (b. February 8, 1983) is an American singer/entertainer and native of Crystal Lake, Illinois who is most notable for being one of the top 10 finalists in the first season of American Idol.  was keeping an accessible Internet journal that included open discussion of his homosexuality--prompting us to ask Fox for an interview with Verraros--the Web diary was quickly deleted.

Portions of the journal leading up to his debut on American Idol reveal a good-natured young man with an affinity for teen-popsters like 'N Sync and O-Town, "good gay flicks" like The Broken Hearts Broken Hearts is a blank verse play by W. S. Gilbert in three acts styled "An entirely original fairy play". It opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London on December 9 1875.  Club, and writing songs for his close friends. In one particularly charming entry, he declares, "I found out that a guy likes me!!! Ummn, totally random and I never even saw it coming, but hey, it's cool. He's adorable a·dor·a·ble  
adj.
1. Delightful, lovable, and charming: an adorable set of twins.

2. Worthy of adoration.
 in, like, every way."

The Chicago-based singer was cut from the viewer-polled program on July 17, and repeated calls to Fox were not returned. Ironically, the winner of Pop Idol This article is about the British television series. For general popular culture icons, see pop icon.
Pop Idol is a British television series which debuted on ITV on October 5 2001; the show was a talent contest to decide the best new young pop singer,
, the smash British program that spawned American Idol was Will Young, who came out shortly after his first single topped the U.K. charts.
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Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Date:Sep 3, 2002
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