, Life After ‘Idol’ ‘Idol’ season 5 contestant Elliott Yamin , stuck in Chile following an 8.8 magnitude earthquake south of the country’s capital last week, will be returning home to the United States today. Yamin finished third on ‘Idol,’ losing out to Katharine McPhee and winner Taylor Hicks

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Elliott Yamin Finally Returning Home from Chile

Filed under: Hot Topics Now that it’s getting down to the wire on ‘American Idol,’ and considering the recent last-minute schedule shakeup this week, it’s time to vent about the obvious divide that is causing a hiccup in the competition’s otherwise smooth staging of vocal talent. Categorizing finalists based on ethnicity or sexuality would be preposterous — but not so different from what ‘Idol’ does, which is to separate them by gender. The unfair format of dividing the top 24 finalists into two gender-based groups of 12 came to a head Tuesday, when the remaining 10 men had to step up their game a day earlier than expected, switching previously scheduled days with the girls due to Crystal Bowersox’s medical issues

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Is It Time for the ‘American Idol’ Battle of the Sexes to End?

, Blogosphere The Top 10 Girls have performed, and we have a recap from our very own ‘Idol’ columnist, MJ Santilli , up here . She calls contestant Crystal Bowersox’s will-she-or-won’t-she-perform medical issues the show’s first “watercooler moment” of the season

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‘Idol’ Recaps From Around the Web: Top 10 Girls