It's the Kara effect taking hold.

Now Paula Abdul has given up on the role of "judge willing to have sex with the male contestants" - (Ellen has a specific exclusion clause in her contract on that score) - there is only Kara there to relieve the sexual frustration of the straight, male, Idol finalists when they're holed up in the AI fortress until the finals.

Given that Kara is a total fugly moose herself, the producers are probably picking fugly guys so that they will be willing to use her obviously available services for the duration of the season. After all, hookers cost money you know and Idol don't want to stretch the budget too much. In addition, where the contest is Kara DiGuano, pitted against Randy in a blonde wig, we all know who is going to show more femininity. The winner sure ain't going to be Kara 'look at my armpits in this sleeveless dress' DiGuano.

Besides which, Randy probably has bigger tits.

But you don't HAVE to choose. And that makes you a very lucky girl.

If i had to choose between one of these guys I'd choose Ben Honeycutt. He's probably the closest to good looking in this group.

But makeovers do wonders! I mean at some point David Cook got hot but now he's ugly again since he's off Idol. I remember he had no beard and long hair and he looked fat and ugly. Now he still kind of looks like that but less atrocious.

Here it is, from the mouth of babes... namely, a fat chocolate babe named Randy Jackson. He outright says that the male winners have sucked, and that they want another big hit like Kelly Clarkson or Carrie Underwood:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiCJpSuXvOE&;feature=player_embedded

When it comes down to it, except for Kelly, most of the material Idol winners get is boring. None of the men have had dynamic enough voices to elevate the material at all. Fantasia can sing a song to the rafters, but what is Kris going to do?

Truth is, not only do they want a female winner, they need one. They obviously do better commercially (Kelly and Carrie). Even the ones that don't win (Boomie and Pickler). And it is true that if AI doesn't have another Grammy-winning, multi-platinum phenomenon like Kelly or Carrie, the periphery demographics will lose interest, and they'll only be left with the frauen. Which means continuing repeat of the last three years, until The X-Factor swallows it whole and takes over the world!!!

I think the Lee guy looks pretty hot. I googled him and found a better picture.

http://www.poptower.com/pic-15542/lee-dewyze-american-idol.jpg

Ben Honeycutt, Aaron Kelly(I've seen other pics) would probably look decent after the make overs. Alex Lambert is a maybe, you can't see with that disquise. All the other guys are ugly.

The judges will be going hard on the guys the fans find attractive this year but won't hesitate to give the ugly ones good comments because they know they won't be winning anyways and so a girl will win instead. They're going to be all over that cop.

This show should be about the best singer winning wheather they're a guy or girl or if they can make money off them but it's clear they don't go by that. If they were fair, they would've let Tatiana through to the top 13 instead of Jasmine, Megan, and Anoop. She had the best voice last year and should've made it at least to the top 3.

"It's not like there hasn't been unattractive contestants in the past; To wit: Danny Gokey."

Dude, you have HORRIFIC taste in men. Seriously. You probably find ape-faced Chris attractive, don't you? Anyways...I have to agree with this post. Every man featured here resembles the ass of a llama. Oh wait, that would be insulting llamas. It's going to be a very disappointing year :/

See this is why it's so easy for me to get men. Because people call guys like Amadeo or Big Mike 'fugly' and I go, no, they are totally hot, come here guys and bingo, they're mine. Thanks everyone!

By the way, why is Chris Gopher-hair-lightly on this list? It's supposed to be about guys, right? No wait, you're telling me that's a dude...?

Simon's gonna go nuts for the one in the bottom left in the top pic!