‘American Idol’ down to two singers

LOS ANGELES: American Idol finalist Angie Miller won’t be tickling the ivories on this season’s final showdown.

The piano-playing 19-year-old singer from Beverly, Massachusetts was revealed on Thursday to have received the fewest viewer votes on the Fox talent contest, leaving 23-year-old R&B vocalist Candice Glover of St. Helena Island, South Carolina and 22-year-old country crooner Kree Harrison of Woodville, Texas to compete on next week’s finale.

“I love you guys,” Miller said to Glover and Harrison before her dismissal.

Miller mostly impressed the judges on Wednesday with her performances of Elton John’s Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word, Pink’s Try and Emeli Sande’s Maybe.

However, the budding singer-songwriter apparently didn’t win over enough voters despite never appearing as one of the show’s low vote-getters and having thousands more followers than Glover and Harrison on Twitter.

An emotional Miller could barely make it through her swansong, a rendition of former Idol contestant Colton Dixon’s Never Gone.

Glover and Harrison will face off for the show’s record deal grand prize on Wednesday, with the 12th season Idol champion crowned on Thursday. Both women have found themselves at the bottom of the voting spectrum once before during the contest.

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*The final of ‘American Idol’ airs on OSN First HD in the UAE at 9pm on Friday