Just Sam earned the American Idol crown last night (May 17) after winning the singing competition series' first at-home finale.
But was she your first choice pick?Sam heard host Ryan Seacrest read her name aloud from her L.A. apartment, which is 3,000 miles away from her New York crib that she shares with her grandmother. "Every other time in the competition, making it from the top 20 to top 10, top 7, top 5...
up until then... I felt really good yesterday because my grandmother was on the iPad," she told Billboard exclusively in an interview today (May 18).But even as monumental as the first socially distanced Idol coronation was, many West Coast viewers felt robbed by the voting experience as they couldn't pick California natives.