American Idol welcomes back Kellie Pickler

March 18th, 2008 | Category: TV News

Filed under: American Idol, Alumni, Performances

She didn’t win American Idol Season 5, in fact she came in sixth place, but Kellie Pickler has still gone on to become one of the bigger success stories from the franchise. that week, the blonde bombshell who was made famous by her ditzy comments and naivete about … well, everything, returns to the stage that made her a star. Idol continues it’s trend of inviting contestants past onto the results show each week to perform, self-promote and serve as inspiration for the current Idol wannabes.

Rather than continue the tour of Idol runner-ups begun with Blake Lewis

and Katharine McPhee the past two weeks, the show is sticking with Season 5 and going with Kellie Pickler. The move makes sense, as Pickler has had more commercial success than Season 4 runner-up Bo Bice. In fact, I think Season 5 has more success stories in the music biz than any other season, so possibly they’ll just stay here for a bit and check in with Elliott Yamin, Bucky Covington and Chris Daughtry while they’re at it.

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