[Adrienne]

Posted Mon May 5 2:30pm PDT by Lyndsey Parker in Reality Rocks
So the new Clay Aiken publicity photo landed in my inbox today...
Yikes.
Now, keep in mind that I expected Clay to look, well...different.
After all, lately Clay has undergone enough makeovers to rival his fellow quickchange diva Madonna.
For instance, there was that brunette K.D. Lang shag he rocked at the season 5 American Idol finale, when he shocked his "lookalike" idolizer Michael Sandecki as well as the entire Fox viewing audience.
Then he packed on about 30 pounds of body fat (inspiring nasty nicknames like "Clay Bacon" and "Clay Tummy-Achin'"), and probably twice that weight in spackled-on makeup, for his role in Broadway's Spamalot.
And still, when I unwittingly checked my email this morning like I do on any uneventful Monday, I was in no way prepared for Clay's latest look.
Take a deep breath and scroll down:
Oh, my Aiken eyes!
Sorry, I don't mean to be cruel. I love me some Clay. Really, I do. But this photo frightens me.
So what do you think of Clay 3.0? Post your thoughts below--and try not to spamalot, OK?

[StereoXGirl]

I think it might be a wig?

[horsienut]

Quite dreadful.
His face looks startling to me, I know he's a young guy but isn't he looking a little "plastic"? As if he's has some extreme plastic surgery or something?

[Sheikah]

Maybe I'm crazy but it doesn't look bad to me.

[empericalbeauty]

Ew. will this kid ever look good?

[Carolyn]

I saw him on the View today. I don't mind the blond but he would look good with a faux hawk.
Still has a great voice!

[La_Mari]

looks fake

[McRubel]

Originally Posted by horsienut

Quite dreadful.
His face looks startling to me, I know he's a young guy but isn't he looking a little "plastic"? As if he's has some extreme plastic surgery or something?

He does look fake. And his hair doesn't look right. I liked the first photo of him (from what I could see). Poor guy.

[bella1342]

He freaks the s**t out of me!

[monniej]

it makes me feel bad that he felt he had to do that. i thought he looked just fine, but who am i? i guess if it makes you happy...

[chocobon]

Quite honestly he's always freaked me and this is no good!!

[kellianne76]

He look's scary!

[KatJ]

Originally Posted by Sheikah

Maybe I'm crazy but it doesn't look bad to me.

I thought I was the only one.

[**ErinBear**]

I really don't think he will ever look good. I am so mean!

[daer0n]

I don't see anything wrong with the last picture, i think he looks good, he used to look way scarier before, IMO.
I also think he probably got plastic surgery, but who doesn't in hollywood, i've seen other celebrities looking worse/really bad after the supposed makeovers, he looks quite masculine i think in that last picture if you compare to the before ones, he might not be very masculine in real life lol but he looks it in the bottom picture.

[ticki]

i don't think he looks bad either. then again, i don't follow how he looks on a day to day basis. i just think they need to tone down on the amount of makeup they're putting on him.