Thursday, May 22, 2008
THE RESULTS ARE OUT!9:56 p.m(USA). - Ok folks, this is it. The moment we’ve all been waiting for! The Davids take the stage (and for some reason, they're dressed alike) and Ryan prepares to announce the results. The judges quickly throw in their two cents. Then Ryan gets to the big announcement:
And the winner of this season of American Idol is: David Cook
YAY-NESSSSSS.
omg.
With a record 97.5 million audience votes cast by phone and text, the split between the two contestants was 56 percent for one David and 44 percent for the other, host Ryan Seacrest announced at the start of the show.
The difference between the two, out of nearly 24 million votes counted, was about 130,000, Fox later said.
Cook was overcome by emotion, bending toward the stage after his name was announced.
"This is amazing," he said. "This is all your fault," he added, addressing the brother who Cook had accompanied to the "Idol" audition that started it all.
Cook immediately took the microphone and began to sing "Time of my Life," which won the annual "Idol songwriting competition."