Idol champ Cook ignores dating rules
American Idol winner David Cook appears onstage during a taping of MTV's Total Request Live at the MTV Times Square Studios Tuesday.
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NEW YORK — David Cook isn’t a rules guy. The newly crowned “American Idol” winner says he doesn’t abide by the conventional three-day wait period after a date.
“I don’t really believe in any sort of theories,” the 25-year-old singer told The Associated Press on Thursday morning before performing on NBC’s “Today” show. “I just kind of call when I call.”
Which begs the question: Has he called — or texted — “Idol” alum Kimberly Caldwell? Cook said Tuesday on “Live With Regis and Kelly” that he recently had a dinner date with Caldwell, 26, who appeared on the second season of the top-rated Fox show. The verdict: he had a good time, and they’ll “probably hang out again.”
Two days later, surrounded by screaming fans outside Rockefeller Center, Cook responded diplomatically to a Caldwell question by the AP: “Great girl, we hung out and we’ll see what happens.”
Cook, from Blue Springs, Mo., defeated 17-year-old David Archuleta last week in a landslide victory. The rocker/ex-bartender transformed into this season’s heartthrob around the time he got rid of his unpopular (and unflattering) comb-forward haircut and grew facial scruff.
When asked if his in-season makeover contributed to his success, Cook said: “I don’t really know. I think, you know, for me it was time to get a haircut. I forgot to shave one week. It’s really all it is. ... I hope that at the end of the day, I did well on my own musical merit.”
