Teens Scotty McCreery & Lauren Alaina To Face Off For American Idol Crown
May 24 2011, Published 11:00 a.m. ET
Breaking Celebrity News Staff Writer
Bible Belt babies Scotty McCreery, 17, and Lauren Alaina, 16 will face off on Tuesday night's grand finale of American Idol, with the tenth season winner to be announced on Wednesday's season finale.
McCreery, a Garner, North Carolina native, enters the finals as the favorite, as he has not appeared in the bottom of vote-getters at all this season.
“Taking a break from rehearsal and watching a little baseball,” McCreery, who counts baseball prodigy Stephen Strasburg as one of his 168,000-plus followers, tweeted Monday. “Yall ready for tomorrow night?”
Alaina, who calls Rossville, Georgia her hometown, had garnered comparisons to past Idol winner/current country superstar Carrie Underwood. If she wins, she'll be the show's youngest victor ever, as Jordin Sparks won 2007's competition at 17.
She tweeted to one of her 130,000-plus followers on Monday that making it to the finals “has always been a dream of mine and now it is a reality.”
If Alaina does win, she would be the youngest winner ever on American Idol. Jordin Sparks current