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You've got to want to talk about Kelly badly in your magazine when you can't come up with something other than that

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Very badly.

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This is pure cuteness. When she looks in the camera and smiles that big smile of hers, it's adorable.

This is backstage at the Youth Rally - right before she performed:

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Love that smile

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Happy Birthday, Kelly Clarkson! - American Idol News

April 24, 2008 - Posted by Marnie If any longstanding "Idol" fan was asked to name the most memorable moment in history, undoubtedly many would recall that emotional moment when Kelly Clarkson sang "A Moment Like This" after she won way back in season one. Little did she know that that moment would be just the beginning of a very successful career. She was originally marketed to the public as a pop singer with her debut album Thankful back in 2003. In fact, "A Moment Like This" was released on this album, and it set a record at the time on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart when it rose from #52 to #1! The music video was filmed at Pantages Theater in Hollywood, and even included some short scenes of Kelly from when she was on AI. Kelly let a great deal more of her rock side show with her multi-platinum sophomore effort, Breakaway, in 2004. This second album yielded five U.S. top ten singles and two Grammy awards. It surprisingly had a less impressive opening than Thankful, but the single releases proved extremely successful, and it became only the fourth CD in history to stay in the Billboard 200 Top 20 for a year consecutively, in addition to being certified six times platinum in the U.S. Having had such success with her first two albums, Kelly decided to go out on a limb and make the kind of album that she wanted to make with her third CD, My December. As she stated on her fan club website, "The biggest difference is how intimate it is." Kelly either wrote or co-wrote every single song on the album. The original Idol thrilled fans by returning to the AI stage during the season six finale last May, performing "Never Again" and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" with Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry during a Beatles medley. In recent years, Kelly has also proved she has the talent to be a successful crossover artist with her venture into country music. Kelly performed "What Hurts the Most" with Rascal Flatts at the ACM Awards in '06, and returned once again to sing a duet with Reba McEntire in '07. Using this momentum, Kelly and Reba recorded an hour-long CMT Crossroads special, which has aired on numerous networks. At the Academy of Country Music Awards in May of last year, Kelly and Reba teamed up once again to sing a duet of Kelly's own '05 single, "Because of You," which also became a lead single from Reba's album of all-star duets. This collaboration earned Kelly a CMA award nomination for "Musical Event of the Year" in '07, and a Grammy nomination for "Best Country Collaboration With Vocal" in '08. Kelly has sold over 19 million albums worldwide. Her fans have got to be thrilled to know that she is working on a new album which is due out later this year, and is collaborating on the new material with OneRepublic frontman and producer Ryan Tedder. Wikipedia reports via Digital Spy that fans can expect "big choruses" and "heavy drum programming" on the album, which is said to be heavily influenced by nineties electro-rockers Garbage, with one song even featuring an experimental bridge that was inspired by Mozart. Happy Birthday, Kelly! We caught up with Kelly after her appearance on "Australian Idol" this year--watch the video now!

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The new album will be fantastic!

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From Yahoo's main page:

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Kelly on PEOPLE magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People list!

ohnotheydidnt: People Mag's 100 Most Beautiful - List

Among others on the list:

Angelina Jolie Christina Aguilera Rihanna Victoria Beckham Nicole Richie Pink Kelly Osbourne Alyssa Milano Janet Jackson Kelly Clarkson Meena Suvari Eva Longoria

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Top 5 Idols from this year discuss their favorite past contestants:

Video Top 5 and Their Idols AI Extra - top, and, their, idols, extra - Dailymotion Share Your Videos

Kelly is mentioned by several of them in the middle.

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Originally Posted by DanceWithLife (View Post) Kelly on PEOPLE magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People list! ohnotheydidnt: People Mag's 100 Most Beautiful - List Among others on the list:

Ahh thats AWESOME! I love it. (:

And of course Kelly is their favorite. How could she not be?

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Originally Posted by DanceWithLife (View Post) Kelly on PEOPLE magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People list! ohnotheydidnt: People Mag's 100 Most Beautiful - List

Awesome

Thanks for the link, because I also found this

WAKING UP TO REALITY: We asked the stars of MTV's The Hills to take pictures of themselves straight out of bed, fist thing in the morning: Lauren Conrad Audrina Partridge Whitney Port Heidi Montag

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Also...this is kind of crazy...

Man Uses Kelly Clarkson's Name To Steal Truck - Houston News Story - KPRC Houston

Man Uses Kelly Clarkson's Name To Steal Truck By Elizabeth Scarborough HOUSTON -- A man used a Texas-native pop star's name to con a Ford dealership out of a pickup truck, officials told KPRC Local 2 Thursday. "He had made his appointment and kept it," said Officer Jim Woods with the Houston Police Department's Auto Theft Unit. "He said he was an associate of Kelly Clarkson." That's right -- Kelly Clarkson, the first winner of "American Idol." She is originally from Burleson, Texas, near Fort Worth."He said she was in town looking to buy her sister a brand new Ford F-150," said Woods. "They showed it to him and he said that was exactly what she was looking for."Police said the man convinced the sales manager to drive the truck to the Westin Galleria hotel, so he could show the pop star her potential purchase in person.The man and the sales manager valet-parked the truck and went inside, detectives said."They sat there a few minutes, talked about the truck, then he got up and said he would go get Clarkson to have her take a look," said Woods.But he never came back. Police said the man took off with the truck, worth about $50,000."The guy was very smooth," said Woods.Smooth enough to also fool a woman who was staying in the Westin."He actually told her his name was Justin Gambino and that he was from New York," said Woods.She took this photo on her phone while they were spending some time together."When she got back to New York, she realized her credit card was missing. She immediately called it in as stolen and noticed there were several purchases made in Houston," said Woods.She said she hopes the photo will help get him caught before he finds his next victim.Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.

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That is strange, yet very entertaining

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Kelly was voted the #3 Ultimate Popstar of all time by viewers of MTV UK

MTV HITS VIEWERS' ULTIMATE 50 POPSTARS | MTV UK

No.4 = Justin Timberlake No.3 = Kelly Clarkson No.2 = McFly No.1 = Britney Spears

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Thats great, you should also post that on the Britney News Thread