“Wait, how am I just finding out Alan Ritchson was on American Idol ... when he tried out for the singing competition — and he had Paula Abdul smiling even before he started singing ...

Judge Paula Abdul took a special liking to Ritchson during the audition process. "There was this one guy in Atlanta, his name was Alan Ritchson, and he’s totally hot,” Abdul says in the clip.

He also spoke about Alan Ritchson's audition on American Idol season 3 in 2004 before Alan became an actor. The audition is popular for Paula Abdul's reaction to Alan's performance. The audition ...

Cowell and Jackson even left the judges’ table so that Ritchson could give Abdul a one-on-one serenade, and the future TV star sang Stevie Wonder’s “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” while ...

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