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Fans of ousted “American Idol” contestant Chris Daughtry and some U.S. radio stations are demanding Fox TV bring back the rocker for a new vote. The Web site, TheDaughtryGang.com, is circulating petitions that charge problems with the talent competition’s voting phone banks after Tuesday night’s show warrants a recount of the votes, The Los Angeles Times reported.

So far, more than 33,000 signatures have been gathered on a petition posted at ThePetitionSite.com, The Times said. Read more!

Chris Daughtry plans to parlay “American Idol’s” boot off the show into a launch pad for the music career he’s dreamed about his entire life. “There’s gonna be a flooding of opportunities, I can’t really talk about them,” the 26-year-old told reporters Thursday, one day after viewers shocked just about everyone and voted him off the TV talent show. “I’m going to use this to launch my career.”

Daughtry, who dreamed of becoming a rock star while working in the service department at a Greensboro car dealership, said he’s considering whether to pursue fronting an established rock band or launching a solo career.
“I’m a songwriter myself,” he said. “To be able to launch my own career would be a dream” come true. Read more!

Fans are down with Chris Daughtry these days after Kelly Clarkson, the most popular American Idol to date.
Announcing Monday that Clarkson has received “superstar status” as the all-time PC screen queen, reported that alt-rocker wannabe Daughtry is the hands-down favorite screensaver download of the current troop of pop-star hopefuls. And that, the site claims in a press release, gives the follicly challenged singer the edge.

Daughtry’s mug has been taking up space on fans’ desktops at twice the rate of his fellow season-five contestants. Read more!

This is the top three prediction of “American Idol” from judge Simon Cowell: Chris Daughtry, Taylor Hicks and Kellie Pickler.

This prediction was made by Cowell for the Fox TV talent competition during a Thursday telephone conversation broadcast on Howard Stern’s Sirius satellite radio show, the New York Post reported Friday.

“Let me tell you who’s gonna be in the finals, The bald-headed kid (Daughtry) and the guy with gray hair (Hicks),” Cowell said. Read more!