Ryan Seacrest has been saying, “After the nationwide vote, the winner of American Idol is” for 20 seasons. And have you ever wondered when he learns who that winner is?
Well, Kelly Ripa wanted to know, so she asked him yesterday on Live with Kelly and Mark. “I find out in the last commercial break,” he told his former co-host. “Because it is a live vote. It is in real-time. The last commercial break is about four minutes long, and with 35, 45 seconds, the card comes in after a final check, and I do take a glance to make sure I can read the writing of the producer who wrote it in.”
That makes sense because he doesn’t want to do a Steve Harvey or a Tyra Banks and announce the wrong winner. Of course, I want him to, but he doesn’t.
And as he has gotten older, it is getting closer to happening because the producer writes the results in pencil. And his eyes are not what they used to be. So it is harder for him to read the card. So who knows what will happen on Monday when he announces the winner of season 21?
BTW Am I the only one who thought he found out who the winner is at the beginning of the season finale?
