Kelly Clarkson is wanting again on her “American Idol” days.
A yr after successful the primary season of the singing competitors present in 2002, Clarkson handed the torch to Ruben Studdard. Clay Aiken was the runner-up throughout that second season, however the speak present host didn’t bear in mind it that manner.
“We spent a lot of time,” Clarkson, 42, recalled on Monday’s episode of “The Kelly Clarkson Show” whereas speaking to Aiken. “We toured after you won. The Independent Tour I think what it was called.”
Aiken, 46, opened his eyes in shock earlier than he quipped, “After I came in second.”
“You what?” Clarkson requested earlier than her visitor reiterated, “After I came in second!”
“So sorry, Ruben. I totally remember that,” Clarkson stated to the digicam. “Look, I’m 42, bro. I forgot, yes.”
However Aiken, who’s again on the music scene along with his new vacation album “Christmas Bells Are Ringing” after a 10-year hiatus, understood the mixup.
“It’s been 20 years,” he reminisced. “We are both getting older.”
“For some reason in my brain, ya’ll are on different shows,” Clarkson defined, “because I know that, speaking of Christmas, ya’ll did ‘The Christmas Show.’”
That wasn’t the one undertaking Aiken and Studdard, 46, did collectively.
“We did a show on Broadway together, too,” the singer continued. “We went on tour last year for the 20th anniversary and I’m sure we’ll do stuff again. I mean we’re sort of inseparable.”
“I think we’re better together than apart,” he added.
The duo has stayed shut through the years, with Clarkson including, “It’s such an odd couple of seeing you two but it so works.”
Together with making music, Aiken additionally dipped his foot into politics, working for Congress in North Carolina as a Democrat in 2022.
The artist didn’t win and beforehand misplaced a run for the 2nd congressional district in North Carolina, in what was thought of to be a secure Republican seat, in 2014.
Aiken, who’s a dad to Parker, 16, whom he co-parents with Jaymes Foster, revealed why he wished to strive one thing new.
“My son got to the age where I didn’t want to be away,” he stated. “I wanted to be home more often, so I wanted to do what would allow me to be in one place all the time. And I thought I could make a difference with that. Nobody makes a difference in politics.”
As a substitute, Aiken is able to return to the music trade.
“I did that for 10 years and sort of decided I hate all of them and at the same time I realized that, Parker is now 16 and he wants me to leave as much as possible now,” he elaborated. “So the whole idea of coming back to music was because wants me out of the house some now.”
All kidding apart, Aiken added, “Music can make people happier.”
“And I thought the politics thing could improve people’s lives but it doesn’t and music does,” he concluded. “It makes people escape from their problems, so I realized I could probably do better with music.”
