America has voted, and the people disagreed with Simon Cowell. Despite the judge's assertion on Tuesday's American Idol that David Archuleta delivered a "knockout" to David Cook, viewers didn't see it that way. A record 97.5 million votes flooded in, handing David Cook the title by a hearty 12 million calls and texts. It was he who delivered the knockout punch!
After being compared to former 'Idol' contestant Chris Daughtry all season, David Cook did one better and bested teen prodigy David Archuleta in a somewhat surprising landslide Wednesday night.
Cook took a moment to shout "I'm going to Disney World!" during the celebration following his win, a common phrase usually uttered by sports figures upon winning a championship. He beat David Archuleta by 12 million votes, out of the record 97.5 million cast by viewers, despite the criticism, much of it unnecessary, given by judge Simon Cowell a night before. The votes broke down to 56 percent for David Cook and and 44 percent for Archuleta, who had been favoured to win the contest all year.
But before the announcement, Simon Cowell took some time to make a rare apology to Cook for his words on Tuesday night: "When I went back home and watched it, it wasn't quite so clear-cut as we called it. David, I will take this opportunity to apologize, because I think I was verging on disrespectful to you... You're tryers, and you've bother given me your best. For the first time ever, I don't really care who wins."
Is it possible Cowell was given wind of the results and told it wasn't quite the 'knockout' for Archuleta he called the night previous, and thought it better to apologize rather than appear to have been totally out to lunch in his criticism? Certainly sounded like it.
It's estimated last night's 'American Idol' finale was seen by approximately 27 million fans according to early estimates, slightly down from the 30 million that saw the season six finale.
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