American Idol Jordin Sparks Looks up to Sanjaya Malakar

Jordin Sparks Calls Sanjaya ‘Just an Amazing Kid’

American Idol winner Jordin Sparks “looks up to” Sanjaya Malakar. She said in an interview,

He had so much guts. He had so much strength. He got a lot of criticism, but for him to go out on that stage and hold his head high … I really look up to him for that. He’s just an amazing kid.”

“The point of the show … is to keep who you like, who you want to see the next week. Sanjaya gave that to the people.”

I’m guessing that this is just a PC reply to the interviewer’s question, “What do you think of Sanjaya?”. And someone should tell her what was going on during the Sanjaya movement. Sanjaya wasn’t necessarily on for so long because people were exercising their right to keep who they like on the show. Instead there were forces like votefortheworst.com and Howard Stern interested in making a joke out of the whole thing.