Crying Girl Identity Revealed!

Who was that inconsolable girl sobbing her way into America's hearts last night? Why, it was 13-year-old Ashley Ferl from Riverside. It seems she had gotten tickets to attend a taping of Are You Smarter Then a 5th Grader and as an added bonus, got to catch the dress rehearsal of Idol. Upon arrival, young Ashley immediately began losing her shit, and if there's one thing FOX knows how to do well, it's exploit both people and opportunities, thus Ashley was invited to stay. Quoth the L.A. Times:

Asked whom she was supporting in the competition she named "Sanjaya, Melinda, Gina and Jordin" as her picks, refusing to narrow her vote down to a single choice. All my journalistic powers of persuasion, cajoling, bullying and insistence that on her vote might turn the entire competition, that "Listen to reason, young Ferl, there can't be four American Idols," would not convince her to name a single favorite. To my every argument, she would only repeat her mantra, "All Four: Sanjaya, Melinda, Gina and Jordin." And so the race begins in earnest, with tears at every step of the way.

And that, my friends, is how one becomes a reality television star.