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• n  a material effigy that is worshipped
• n  someone who is adored blindly and excessively
• n  an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept

• Wherever south Korea's hottest boy band goes, its members are assailed by heaving, hormonal throngs of teenage girls, all of them aching to rip out a lock of pop idol hair.

• graven image
• god
• matinee idol
• paragon
• perfection
• beau ideal

News & Articles

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• News: 12 American Idol Alums Who Would Make Good Judges
  News: 12 American Idol Alums Who Would Make Good Judges Seattle Post-Intelligencer Copyright 2013 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 2:17 pm, Tuesday, June 11, 2013 Aiken's name has already been bandied about as a potential judge, perhaps prompted by his guest appearance in the Office series ...
  June 14, 2013 - seattlepi.com
• Ex-'Idol' boss: Get Simon back
  Former "American Idol" boss Nigel Lythgoe has called for Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson to be reinstated as judges in a bid to save the flailing talent show.
  June 12, 2013 - NBC NEWS
• Ex-'Idol' boss: Get Simon back
  Former "American Idol" boss Nigel Lythgoe has called for Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson to be reinstated as judges in a bid to save the flailing talent show.
  June 12, 2013 - NBC NEWS

Quotes

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• Paula Abdul in AFP
  With sadness in my heart, I've decided not to return to #IDOL,Abdul wrote. "I'll miss nurturing all the new talent, but most of all...... being a part of a show that I helped from day 1 become an international phenomenon."
• Ryan Seacrest in Forbes
  I come to you today with great sadness, acknowledging the loss of the greatest entertainer in the history of mankind. For me he was more than that, he was my idol, he was a role model, he was someone to cry to when my childhood was unbearable, he... Corey Feldman http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corey_Feldman&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGXVARIAR3xr6gZddrM-5V7CPR1Wg Pattaya Daily News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.pattayadailynews.com/shownews.php%3FIDNEWS%3D0000009570&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHEWal76Bc3bHHGjg3X_wLI38aoKQ Jun 25, 2009 49382 67122 idol A true idol, Tony Bennett, ladies and gentlemen," Seacrest gushed, with good reason.