Suddenly, everyone’s obsessed with my boyfriend Taylor Hicks:

Taylor Hicks on American Idol

There’s Gray Charles, a Taylor Hicks weblog, which pronounces “Whoo!” as “the new Yeah!” and sells t-shirts, coffeecups and mousepads. Vote4Idol, an online voting site for fans, has Taylor leading the pack right now with 862910 (or 17.60%) of votes. And there are more articles about Taylor than any other Idol contestant so far.

Of course I love him. I was hooked the moment he started yelling “Soul Patrol!” Whoo!