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Sanjaya to attend Correspondents' dinner
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(AP)
Guess who's coming to dinner: It's Sanjaya, shown here performing on American Idol, who has been invited by People magazine to attend the White House Correspondents' Association dinner this weekend. Move over Petra. Step aside Jane Fonda. Make room, Morgan Fairchild. Although all of the major news organizations have spent weeks bragging about their big name celebrity guests, People magazine has pulled a great coup by grabbing someone who's sure to turn more heads than anyone else this weekend: Sanjaya Malakar, the "American Idol" contestant whose hilarious run on the reality show finally came to an end this week. People magazine has secured the hair-challenged 17-year-old to be their guest during the White House Correspondents' Association dinner (but he won't be at the magazine's party tonight at IndeBleu). Sanjaya earned his 15 minutes of fame by managing to go far on the tough "Idol" show despite an obvious lack of talent (he was bolstered by campaigns led by radio shock jock Howard Stern and such Web sites as www.votefortheworst.com. In recent years, People magazine has managed to secure the most recently voted off American Idol contestant for the big WHCA weekend. Last year, that was Ace Young and in 2005, People hosted Constantine Maroulis. And say what you want about WHCA dinner headliner Rich Little: We'd give anything to see him do an impersonation of Sanjaya... Read more about this, and other local gossip, on Yeas and Nays. Sanjaya on the Celebrity Photo Blog Share your views on Sanjaya on ExamiNation! |
