uppereast,

Sad isn't it? Celebrityblondebabe, reader, and those at the mis-named Caroline Lyders Fan Club site represent the worst and the underbelly of what used to be a very large and invested group of Taylor Hicks fans. All these fanatics know how to do is to attack like mad dogs and tear down anyone who disagrees with them, as Sunny can attest to. They are an absolute embarassment to the remaining fans, most of whom are intelligent enough to recognize that the evidence presented by Radar and Lois Gibson is hard to deny. The truth is evident, and none of the parties involved who have every reason to deny the claims are denying it to a national mainstream media publication. There really isn't much more to say on top of that. Case closed.

So this is maybe as definitive as it gets. Lois Gibson provides far more details about why she reached the professional conclusion she did about the two women in the photos, and she turns out to have a bias - as a Taylor Hicks fan!

I guess this is the denouement of the stranger-than-fiction episode of Taylor Hicks and his fake girlfriend. It was like a human shellgame. Fans saw one tall woman in the beach photos, and then fans were introduced to another very similar-looking (but petite) lady who Taylor paraded as his girlfriend for 7 months! (He wasn't very convincing about it though which raised suspicion among fans, his body language gave him away many times). Too many people knew the real truth though, and it leaked out. The more the truth leaked out, the more they tried to cover it up to a ridiculous level, but the tide finally went against the conspirators and overwhelmed them. Call it karma, or judgment. They haven't confessed but it's rather obvious to intelligent observers what went on. The good news is it's over. It was a really stupid scam for 'image saving' purposes and it's done for ever. The final curtain comes down on this weird 7-month sideshow. I.hope so anyway.

No response when Taylor is accused of being involved in one of the most stupid publicity image scams ever because he's too busy working on his cd? Too busy to stop his reputation being smeared across the internet and in the national mainstream media? That makes no sense at all unless he doesn't care about his national reputation, which we know he does. As I said before, he moved quickly to negate the publicity over Timberlake's remarks about him and over his 'AI fizzling out' comment. Reputation is everything in the entertainment biz and he knows it.

Yesterday Taylor put out an audioblog confirming that his DVD is coming out, moving fast to squash the new fan rumors out there that the DVD had been canned. He said nothing about this article, nothing about the sham. He's going to take the hit on his reputation and pretend nothing happened. See that's how fast he can move to squash false rumors - if he wants to.

Taysupporter,

I think Wakeup is correct and you are wrong. Just google 'Caroline Lyders'. If she had got a major job on a tv station anywhere in the country, there would be a tv station announcement that google would find, especially a front-line news anchor position. So where is it? Is this Boston station hiding her? Is there some news tidbit in 'newsblues' you can refer to? Of course not.

I really don't really care about Caroline Lyders and what she does now. I can see that the sham helped her lose 2 prized anchor positions when it was supposed to help her get a better job, and instead bought her a lot of bad publicity nationally. She brought this all on herself.

As for the 'respected newscaster', it looks like she lost two meaty newscaster positions in big tv stations in Boston and DC because of the resulting bad publicity about this sham. What she has now is a temporary news position, not even as a newscaster. We heard that she pushed hard for the scam to continue so she could get a better job than what she had and the whole thing backfired on her in a bad way. Her career has been definitely been badly affected by all of this.

Michael,

That was a very good analysis. Taylor Hicks actually likes to sue. He sued a Nashville music producer (and settled) and he is suing his former manager from Alabama. That he is NOT threatening to sue about these allegations speaks volumes. Taylor Hicks also responds back fast to allegations and bad press. He responded to what Justin Timberlake said about him in 2006 and also when the media picked up his comment about AI "fizzling out". So when Taylor is being accused of a weird sham that is stranger than fiction, why isn't he responding quickly like he usually does? This nationally-read article makes him look bad, and he still doesn't respond. As you said, it's because this was a publicity image scam and it's all true.

katty,

Thanks for the compliment. There are some here who present logical arguments, and there are others who represent the worst of the kool-aid-drinking Taylor fans in denial. You can see that some of them posted above me. Their postings reflect badly on Taylor and his fans, but I don't think it's fair to say they represent all of his fans. I have known many good and decent fans of his, who are not blindly close-minded, and who are realistic that he isn't some sort of god-like being incapable of making a mistake. They know he made a huge error in judgment about the pretend girlfriend sham and he is still paying for the mistake. But he never expected to be caught either.

Radar's nationally renowed expert, Lois Gibson did NOT make a mistake. The woman in the photos and Caroline Lyders are two separate but similar-looking women - one very tall, the other very short. Caroline's co-workers, her friends and family, and of course her boyfriend Aaron Ruffcorn know it. (Aaron supported her, hoping that she pretending to be an American Idol's pretend girlfriend would bring them both of them publicity advantages). Taylor's friends and family know about the sham. Those who know them know it. There are only a few fanatics left like 'celebrityblondebabe/Jeanni' and 'reader', who refuse to see the truth even when hit in the face with it. There are none so blind as those who will not see. They will continue in their deliberate blindness. Taylor obviously knows the truth but is unwilling to come clean publicly. His silence speaks volumes though.

babyphat,

Still in theme are you? LOL. It is amusing. Carry on.

Lois Gibson and Radar had access to the original Splash photos from the Splash photos private directory which is available to media sources. Ms Gibson apparently said it was an easy comparison based on all the photos given to her that the woman on the beach wasn't Caroline Lyders. She did it only by the harder facial comparison because the women are similar looking facially when the clincher is actually the major height differences and bone structure differences between the two women. You can confirm with Ms Gibson. She has been responding back to those who email her.

fletch,

The betting is Taylor won't comment about this. He doesn't want to lie any more. He doesn't want to tell the truth either now he's been caught out. So he stays silent. For him it's like pleading the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination without saying the actual words.

babyphat,

Your post is a hoot. It reminds me of that great line in the movie "Airplane!": "Oh stewardess! I speak jive." ROTFLMAO.

So what I think you're saying is this mysterious Dana somehow forced Taylor Hicks to make out on a Maui beach with a shady tall blonde, be caught by the paparazzi, and arrange to substitute the similar-looking but respectable newscaster Caroline Lyders to play his girlfriend to hide that he was caught with a skank? It's got to be all Dana's fault then that Radar has now proven that the girl on the beach was never Caroline Lyders. This Dana is certainly all-powerful. LOL. It's hilarious the lengths some fans try NOT to place the responsibility where it belongs - all on Taylor Hicks himself!

Reader/Hicksfan7,

Attacking me doesn't change the truth one iota. You would attack the credibility and experience of one of the foremost forensic experts in the country?? You attack the reputation of this magazine in the mainstream media? Go right ahead. It just shows up your deep ignorance.

THANK-YOU RADAR!!

Finally a renowned forensic expert opinion confirming what many fans have suspected all last summer and until now!! Actually the two women do look a lot alike from a distance but in detailed closeups, the differences are definitely there. They are not related so there had to be differences. The height is the real clincher. No-one who has seen Caroline Lyders in person can truthfully say she's the girl in the photo because she's SHORT, and petite and finer-boned. The beach girl is TALL (about 5'9"), bigger boned, with long toned legs.

Yes, Caroline Lyders solved Taylor's short-term problem about covering up who the girl in the beach photos was. But she created a long-term problem in wanting publicity with him so she could get a better newscaster job. The "Sham Relationship" prolonged through the summer and fall while she went after that elusive job, which caused one particular website (MFOYA=makingfunofyourass.wordpress.com) to pop up and examine the photos in detail and make the claim that the girl in the photos was not Caroline. Which all led to this article and the truth coming out! So if it had been a temporary fake-girlfriend switcheroo only back in May/June, none of this would have come out and fans would not have known anything. I guess this was meant to come out in the end.

Sorry Taylor, but this was really an incredibly dumb thing to do. We suspect your management pushed it and arranged a lot of it but the responsibility for the whole thing rests with you. Just admit it and move on! Enough is enough!!

reader,

More than any poster here, you make Taylor look bad. He's probably reading this, you know.

reader,

You can't even recognize the sarcastic tone that 'RadarMagazine' is writing in? That's also a poor imitation post of the 'RadarOnline' posting anyway. LOL.

Mystified,

This is a reputed magazine, the opposite to what the very ignorant 'Reader' says. And they did their homework. And they responded above your comment to the comments on this blog.

"This story might be far fetched, but is not impossible based on the photographic evidence and the tips received from various sources." - Radaronline

Hollywood Nights and uppereast,

I agree with you. Taylor Hicks has never denied the sham accusations since September, because he can't, they are true, and he doesn't want to come out and outright lie and deny them. When the mainstream media comes asking for a response, it would have been so easy to laugh the whole thing off, and say how ridiculous, this was started by some loony ex-fans or something. He stays silent in the face of the accusations and looks guilty because he is. He did it all for 'image' purposes and it was a big mistake.

For the record, I think he is a very talented live performer and that he isn't gay. He just got very off-track with this fake-girlfriend-sham but now he's supposedly kicked the fake girlfriend to the curb, he should be able to go back to putting his energies into performing the good soul/blues music that he loves.

uppereast,

Sorry. These are the worst of the Taylor Hicks fanatics invading here. They have no logic or reasoning, but just attack because they feel they have to. There was an element of Claymates who did the same thing for Clay Aiken and gave all Clay fans a bad name.

Here's some reasoning for you - accept it or not. The accusations about the beach girl not being the 'respectable newscaster' popped up immediately after the beach photos were published, back at the end of May. The site (makingfunofyourasses linked in the article) accusing Hicks of pretending that the similar-looking but much shorter & petite newscaster was the beach girl popped up in September. These accusations have destroyed the newscaster's tv career because newscasters are 'supposed' to be honest. Your reputed Radar magazine, which is tracked by mainstream media, puts out two articles about this. And all through this, Hicks denied nothing. It's easy to say he rose above 'crazy' accusations, but when the same accusations are in the mainstream media and affects his reputation, his career, her reputation and her career, and he says nothing, that actually says a lot. He could have stopped the accusations in their tracks back in September if the accusations had been so crazy and ridiculous but he never did - even after his 'supposed' girlfriend's reputation has been so trashed. It's always been 'neither confirm or deny' from him. Ask yourself why that is.

reader,

You are just another Taylor fanatic who gives a bad name to all Taylor fans.

'reader'

This site isn't about me but Taylor and his sham, although you seem to want to make it about me. I am not MFOYA and I don't care.

You are so ignorant about Radar. It does feed ALL the mainstream media sources and some came looking for more information about the sham.. MFOYA wrote this on the blog yesterday.

"Over 600 clicks on the link from Radar into MFOYA since they published the article this morning. According to my stats random 13 media publications have logged on including the New York Times and TMZ! Also, Sony Studios? "

Rattle,

Absolutely right. Ted Cognata pushed the theory that Caroline was at the Pala Casino show in San Diego but this proved impossible because she was live on-air early morning in Milwaukee that day and the next. The tall lady of the Maui beach photos was seen there by fans and they blogged about the sighting back in September. This lady was also seen by fans at the Kansas City casino shows in late April, again when Caroline had been proved to be live on-air early that day and next. Ted has been pushing the fake girlfriend sham since Day 1, but often bungling it. Was he really trying to be helpful to Taylor??

'Reader',

You should brush up on your english grammer. And you just proved 'diehard' 's comment right!

You forget this isn't splash or the Inquirer. This is a reputed magazine site that is the source of many mainstream media articles. Of course they checked out the photos and other evidence for themselves before publishing these stories. Truth is stranger than fiction. More of the truth will definitely come out with further media investigations and you will see how many lies were told to keep up this elaborate sham.

The elaborate bait-and-switch-fake-girlfriend sham, which ran from very early June to just before Christmas, is now supposedly over. The 'respectable newscaster' apparently wanted to get a better newcaster job by basking in the PR sunshine as Taylor Hicks' "girlfriend". The pathetic attempts by her to ride HIS coattails and HIS reputation to another job seem to have failed. Taylor himself got fed up with the charade in December, and has supposedly chucked it. He seems to be turning over a new leaf and putting his energies back into his flagging music career instead of continuing the sham - and good for him. The chances of seeing Taylor and the newscaster together in another PR-related sighting are said to be poor, and her regular (and supportive) boyfriend through this, Aaron Ruffcorn also seems fed up with the sham. He thought he would get some free publicity out of the sham for 'music career' but that just didn't happen for him.

Sometimes truth works out to be stranger than fiction...

Funny thing is I've never been a conspiracy theorist in my entire life. Not grassy knolls, or 911 conspiracies, UFO stories or anything. I had actually bought the original sham back in May/June because after Ted's misleading email came out, what else was there to say? But the rumors of Ms Lyders NOT being the girl on the beach popped up almost immediately and puzzled me. I started to look at all the photos of Caroline I could find back in July and compare them to the beach girl and yes, she did look kind of similar but also quite different. When Caroline started to make public appearances at the July NYC book signing for example, and photos showed how SHORT she was in comparison to Taylor and how different she looked from the TALL and sexy beach girl, that's when I had the revelation that there were two different women involved and my idol Taylor Hicks (for whatever his reasons) had pulled this elaborate bait-and-switch on his fans, family, and friends. That Taylor did this sham isn't a question - he did it and those closest to him know that he did it - and here comes the fallout/karma/judgment.