
Clay Aiken
Highest Rated: 30% Sharknado 5: Global Swarming (2017)
Lowest Rated: 30% Sharknado 5: Global Swarming (2017)
Birthday: Nov 30, 1978
Birthplace: Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
The second season of "American Idol" (Fox, 2002-16) proved most noteworthy for the rise of Clay Aiken from nerdy country boy-next-door to unlikely heartthrob on the strength of his powerhouse vocals and charming personality. Overshadowing the season's winner, Ruben Studdard, Aiken enjoyed an enviable string of recording, tour and television success, striking multiplatinum with the album Measure of a Man and hitting No. 1 with "This Is the Night." An easy target for his less-than-masculine demeanor and dramatically earnest performing style, Aiken's rise as a good-natured pop culture punch line only incited his fans, the self-proclaimed "Claymates," to defend and promote him all the more ferociously. Even his most passionate fans cooled, however, when he finally quelled career-long rumors by coming out of the closet and simultaneously announcing that he and a platonic female friend were new parents via artificial insemination. As his music industry success waned, Aiken appeared on Broadway in "Monty Python's Spamalot," but would always hold the distinction of being one of the all-time most successful "Idol" alums.

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Movies
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30% | 38% | Sharknado 5: Global Swarming | Llewelyn (Character) | - | 2017 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 8% | The View |
Music Performer, Guest |
2016-2019 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The $100,000 Pyramid | Guest | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wendy Williams Show | Guest | 2012 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Today With Kathie Lee & Hoda | Music Performer | 2018 |
41% | 61% | Chelsea | Guest | 2016 |
68% | 0% | American Idol | Music Performer | 2013 2016 |
No Score Yet | 66% | Real Time With Bill Maher | Guest | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Politicking With Larry King | Guest | 2014 |
81% | 89% | The Office | Clay Aiken (Guest Star) | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 71% | The Apprentice | Contestant | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen | Guest | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Today |
Music Performer, Guest |
2008 2012 |
72% | 49% | Drop Dead Diva | Tyler Callahan (Guest Star) | 2011 |
No Score Yet | 0% | The Talk | Guest | 2011 |
No Score Yet | 92% | Phineas and Ferb | Music Performer | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Early Show | Music Performer | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | InnerVIEWS With Ernie Manouse | Guest | 2010 |
78% | 93% | 30 Rock | Clay Aiken (Guest Star) | 2009 |
No Score Yet | 68% | America's Next Top Model | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2009 |
No Score Yet | 10% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rachael Ray | Guest | 2008 |
83% | 86% | Scrubs | Kenny (Guest Star) | 2005 |
No Score Yet | 44% | Saturday Night Live | Music Performer | 2004 |