American Idol has now passed the fun 'laugh at the bad idiots' stage, which means that it's just a slow, power-ballad heavy chug to the final now.

Or it might not be, and it's all thanks to David Hernandez – an American Idol finalist who might very well have been a male stripper for three years.

A Phoenix strip club manager is telling everyone that David Hernandez used to get his nutsack out all the time for three years while working for him. It's a claim that could potentially damage American Idol's reputation, because the last time a male stripper got onto a Simon Cowell show it was Chico from X Factor. And if David Hernandez turns out to be anything like him, well God help us all.

American Idol is ostensibly a talent show to find America's best undiscovered singer, but somethings we think it's basically just a magnet for the constantly-aroused. Look at American Idol's history – there's been a sex scandal between a judge and a contestant, another contestant who made her own sex tape and the constant, if distant, threat that Randy Jackson is going to grab a passer-by and furiously dry-hump them yelping the word 'dog' again and again like some sort of horrible mating call.

And now the sexy curse of American Idol has struck again. David Hernandez, who eagle-eyed American Idol viewers might recognise as one of the effortlessly interchangeable identikit male American Idol singing clones who you'll never be able to ever tell apart, might have a dark past. And it's dark because his bumhole is in it.

Basically, someone's saying that David Hernandez is a stripper. The New York Daily News reports:

According to a report by the Associated Press, David Hernandez appeared fully nude and performed lap dances for the club's "mostly male" clientele, club manager Gordy Bryan told the news wire service. “He had the look and the type that people like, so he made pretty good money here,” Bryan said. Bryan claims Hernandez — who hails from Glendale, Arizona — worked at the strip club, Dick's Cabaret, for three years until the end of September 2007.

Mostly male clientele? You mean… gay people might have seen David Hernandez's penis? That's despicable – David Hernandez should be eliminated from American Idol this instant. If a schoolgirl can get removed from X Factor for violently attacking another girl, then Hernandez should be removed from American Idol for showing his bell-end to homosexuals. If he stays, there's no telling how much he'll do to the Ryan Seacrest and Simon Cowell-starring talent show that constantly features nothing but Whitney Houston powerballads. Gayness must not be allowed to permeate its borders!

We should have seen this coming, though. Who can forget David Hernandez's first American Idol audition where, dressed as a PVC sailor, he belted out a spine-tingling rendition of The Way We Were that was only interrupted when he hit a high note in the chorus and all the velcro holding his trousers together fell to pieces.

Oh, alright, we'll just admit it. We're annoyed that Renaldo Lapuz didn't make the finals.

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Was 'American Idol' singer a male stripper? - NY Daily News