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Hype doesn't mean an 'Idol' victory

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Published: April 4, 2007 at 6:58 PM

LOS ANGELES, April 4 (UPI) -- The buzz around "American Idol" contestant Sanjaya Malakar doesn't mean he'll win the Hollywood competition, the show's executive producer says.

Ken Warwick said hype on the Internet and the radio won't affect "the vast numbers of votes we get," which aren't revealed, the New York Daily News reported Wednesday.

Shock jock Howard Stern and the Web site votefortheworst.com have pushed "to get a bad contestant as far as possible," the votefortheworst Web site said. But Warwick said the "anti" vote wouldn't make up the difference between Malakar and the people ahead of or behind him in the weekly call rankings.

"Say what you want about Sanjaya, he hasn't a bad voice," Warwick said. "Personally, I don't expect him to be there in the end. But it's not up to me, it's up to the public."

Topics: Howard Stern, Ken Warwick
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