"Post-American Idol I've been invited to a lot of parties, " he says.

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"I want to keep my baby, " the half-Australian teenage idol says.

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So without further hedging I am going to go out on a limb and predict Phillips will win, not because he is better, but because in recent years the Idol voting has skewed pro-male, which I think will give him the slightest edge in what would otherwise be a dead heat.

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"With sadness in my heart, I've decided not to return to Idol, " she said to her 800, 000-plus followers on Twitter.

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They were obviously written as an ode to her success on the Pop Idol show: "Some people wait a lifetime for a moment like this - I can't believe it's happening to me".

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