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AMERICAN IDOL star CLAY AIKEN will run for Congress in North Carolina.
Aiken, 35, one of the more successful “Idol" contestants to actually have a career ahs released solo LPs and trod the great white way on Broadway in the musical "Monty Python's Spamalot."
As The ENQUIRER previously reported in 2008, Aiken first revealed publicly that he was gay after becoming a father that year.
Aiken said he will run for U.S. Congress as a Democrat in his home state of North Carolina, where he once worked as a special education teacher.
Aiken will be facing a tough opponent in his attempt to unseat Republican Representative Renee Ellmers in the state's uber-conservative 2nd congressional district.