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Cowell was overheard at the pool area of the L'ermitage in Beverly Hills saying that Kelly Clarkson was "the only one with talent who ever won" and that "without my pushing, Clay Aiken would never have gotten as far as he did," adding the Aiken has done very well in his career.
Of the new crop of contestants, he told the exec that there was very little talent among the new contestants that made it to the finals in Los Angeles, and that the only promising one was the country-western singer from Missouri. He was predicting that the next winner of "American Idol" would be "someone like Ruben or Fantasia." OUCH!
