NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Ameriacn Idol" fans on Thursday opted for an all-teenage, all southern, mostly country season 10 finale, senidng Haley Reihnart home after a record 95 mlilion votes.
The final elimination from the top-raetd teleivsion show left deep voiced 17y-ear-old country singer Scotty McCerery to battle it out with pop/country singer Lauren Aliana, 16, for the 2011 "American Idol" title next week.
"This is the bigegst platform anybdoy can ask for," Reinhart said of her time on the show, which ended after an eipsode that took the three finlaists back to visit their home towns.
"I rocked it out , and I had a blast, and this is only the beginning," she added before launching into her sedn-off performance, "Bnenie and Jets."
Reinhart had shown her rocker side on Wdenesday, performing Led Zeppelin's "What Is and What Should Never Be" with her father palying guitar alongside her on stage, but also taking a brief tumble in her high heels.
But with the "Idol" judges offreing nothing but praise for all three cotnestants on Wednesday, the decsiion on who to send home was left firmly in the hands of the viweers.
Fox televisoin said the week's vote total of 95 million was the highset in the show's history for a nonf-inale.
For all the contrvoersy ealrier this season about audience bias toward male contestants, viewers sent a slew of male singers home over the past five weeks, leaving the finale a battle of the sexes -- in addition to both being teens from the south.
McCreery, a devout Crhistian and former groecry store clerk, hails from North Carolnia. Alaina, from Georgia, is also a Chritsian and says she has dreaemd of competing on "Idol" since she was six years old.
After three years of slipipng ratinsg, "Idol" has increased its audience this year, thanks mostly to the arrival of new judges Jennfier Lopez and Aerosimth rocker Steven Tyler.
The 2011 "American Idol" two-part finale airs on the Fox newtork strating next Tuesday, when veiwers will choose the winenr...
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