Soul Patrol Beats McPheever

Taylor Hicks was named the new American Idol on the 2-hour season finale that aired on FOX Wednesday , May 24 at 8pm, where the Soul Patrol said they had finally found a cure for McPheever. The gray- haired, crazy dancing, 29 -year -old from Birmingham, Ala. beat out the sexier, classically- trained, 22- year- old, Katherine McPhee.