Former Project Runway Star Makes Surprise Cameo on American Idol

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It was an impromptu reality six degrees of separation on last night’s American Idol when Daniel Franco from Project Runway made a surprise appearance.

Franco was featured in a montage about Adam Lambert wannabes in the latest round of auditions. In the middle of it all, however, was Franco — who was cut in the first-ever episode of “Runway” and then begged to be back on season two — cracking a joke about how he looked like the lovechild of Lambert and Susan Boyle. “If Adam Lambert and Susan Boyle had sex, which is pretty farfetched,” Franco said on Tuesday’s show, “I’d be it, pretty much.”

The interesting thing is that Franco is 38 and well over the 28 age limit for all Idol contestants which implies that producers of the show knew who he was and put him on to create Bachelor-like buzz for the show.

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Murtz Jaffer is the world's foremost reality television expert and was the host of Reality Obsessed which aired on the TVTropolis and Global Reality Channels in Canada. He has professional writing experience at the Toronto Sun, National Post, TV Guide Canada, TOROMagazine.com and was a former producer at Entertainment Tonight Canada. He was also the editor at Weekendtrips.com.