This is the last day of 2015!
Happy New Year’s Eve to All!
The end of 2015 was exciting for Clay Aiken and his followers. Clay seemed to be having a good time.
October – November – December
October 8th
Clay visited the morning TV show, Good Day L.A. Co-anchors, Steve Edwards & Maria Samson chatted with Clay about his start on American Idol and showed some clips of Clay on the show. They also discussed Clay campaign for Congress in 2014. Clay also revealed that he was excited to be a part of Politicon. He was pleased that the event would bring both conservative and liberal people together to discuss many important topics.
Later in the day, CNN posted a video of Clay talking politics. In this excellent program, Clay talked about his support of Joe Biden to his friendship with Donald Trump, and why he he ran for office. CNN-Politics also posted an article about the interview. The following picture from Celebrity Apprentice was used to show the “friendship” between Clay and Trump.
October 9th
The first thing in the morning, Clay was on KTLA 5 Morning News. Clay had another great interview. They talked about his campaign trail and, of course, American Idol and Celebrity Apprentice. But the main focus was about Politicon, that ran for two days at The Los Angeles Convention Center.
October 9-10
Clay spent two days at Politicon. We got lots of pictures from tweets.
Frank Fox @frankthefox Fascinating to hear Clay Aiken speak about his failed congressional campaign. Much respect! @Politicon #Politicon
R2BNation @R2BNation Fascinating screening & Q&A of #TheRunnerUp with @ClayAiken and @JonathanChinn #Politicon True #R2BNation candidate.
Politicon @Politicon “Religious Freedom: From Bakeries to Courthouses” with Brad Dacus and @clayaiken! 🍰 #Politicon
Politicon @Politicon “One of the problems in the country right now is not being willing to hear the other points of view.” -@clayaiken
Jonathan Flora @JonathanFlora Great conversation with Clay Aiken and Brad Dacus at @Politicon
Lorena Gonzalez @LorenaSGonzalez First thing I see when I walk into @Politicon — yep @clayaiken #loveit
Carlos Leon @carlosleon @clayaiken Just got swamped by the Founding Father at @Politicon 😂pic.twitter.com/S2dXJ4iqdw
Fred Karger @fredkarger Interesting panel w/ @clayaiken on celebrities in politics by @Variety @tedstew @Politicon
Stephanie Miller @SMShow With my American idol @clayaiken
LindaMilazzo @LindaMilazzo At @Politicon in #LosAngeles watching debate on money in politics. @clayaiken & Dennis Kucinich rocking the #TRUTH!
Earlier today. “Hi Cenk, I am Clay Aiken and I am a big fan.” The awesomeness of Clay Aiken thinking there’s anyone who doesn’t know who he is. #politicon (at Los Angeles Convention Center)
October 18th
On the evening of October 18, 2015, Clay Aiken was a guest panelist on the Al Jazeera America show called Third Rail. The show was 30 minutes long and the moderator was Ali Velshi.
The panel discussed two topics:
- Guns in schools and training small kids to fight back.
- In-state college tuition for undocumented immigrants & “dreamers”.
November 4th
The organization, Aid for Aids held their My Hero Gala on November 4, 2015 at the elegant Cipriani 25 in New York City. Clay Aiken was there to support the cause. He was with a group of his friends.
November 14th
Clay attended The Deaf West Theaters production of the rock musical, Spring Awakening. The show was on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theater.
Thanks to the star of the show who is also a friend of Clay, we got a great picture. Thank you, Marlee Matlin for the nice tweet and picture of you and Clay!
November 15th
Sunday was the opening of the new play, Misery. The show stars Bruce Willis who is making his Broadway debut and three-time Emmy Award winner Laurie Metcalf.
Clay walked the Red Carpet and attended the play with his good friend, Keala Settle. She and Clay starred together in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in Ogunquit and Keala performed at the National Inclusion Project Gala in 2013.
November 22nd:
Clay made his second appearance on Third Rail, a 30 minute program on Al Jazeera America. The panel discussed two topics: Syrian Refugees, and HIV being too de-stigmatized. Clay was knowledgeable, articulate and polite, and did not back down from his opinions. He added a lot to the show.
November 24th
Congratulations to Clay Aiken! On 11/24, Clay received the VSA-NYC Art Advocate of the Year Award. The award was presented by VSA (Very Special Arts) founder, Jean Kennedy Smith. Clay was recognized for his leadership in working with children with and without disabilities.
November 29th
The 84th annual Hollywood Christmas Parade, titled “The Magic of Christmas,” was held on Nov. 29 starting at 6 p.m.
Clay Aiken was part of the pre-parade concert. He sang ‘The First Noel” on one of two stages that were part of the opening of the parade.
The parade was shown as a two-hour special on the CW Network on Dec. 11 at 8 p.m.
December 20th
Clay made his 3rd appearance on Third Rail. Donald Trump’s run for President and how to deal with ISIS.
That seems to be all for 2015!! I can’t believe that it took 4 days to summarize the year!! And, just think…I didn’t mention everything. I didn’t mention Nick’s wedding or the fun tweets from Clay…and I left out lots of Periscopes!! CLAY…how about some more Periscopes??? They were so much fun!!!
Although none of us are sure exactly what Clay’s next project will be, I hope he knows that he has a large group of supporters who are here and ready to help in whatever way we can.
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We can’t leave 2015 without a wonderful song by Clay Aiken. This video is rather old, but it is wonderful. The beginning is a bit loud, but the rest is amazing.
Would you survive if Clay sang this to you???
Happy New Year’s Eve!
Clay was busy this year, and your summary was great! I looked forward to next year of your wonderful website and of OMC! Love the video of Clay performing "What Are You Doing New Years Eve" The audience were swooning!
By the way, HAPPY NEW YEAR to you and yours!
What a great year. Thank you for the review. I hope next year is even better for Clay and all of us.
That video is fantastic. I’d be walking on air if Clay sang that to me. Beautiful song.
Two things I noticed in the video…there were lots of men in the audience and Clay can dance although he denies it. I remember that last Christmas tour. Clay made his way to an exit while singing this song and left the audience begging for more. We appreciate all of the work CANN put in with these last 3 posts to wrap up the year. Thank you.
Thank you for the video. I do not remember seeing this before. I loved all the work that went into the past 3 days. Happy New Year to Clay, his family, Musicfan, and everyone out there. May it be filled with Happiness, great Health and Peace to all.
Holy smoke!! I barely survived just seeing the video–have never seen it before,
It's been a great year for Clay and for us!!
Thanks for bringing it all here.
I keep being amazed at your devotion to this website. I also am wondering why we must go over to Clay's old campaign page in order to play a video that you insert?
I wish I could figure that out…Do you get the blog via the email or do you just open it up each day? If you get the e-mail blog, you must click on the video (any place on the picture that shows up as the video) It then should take you to the blog site(not Clay's page). Then you can play the video.
I will check with the computer pro and see if there is anyway to do it differently.
Many thanks for the wonderful reviews of the year. They are very special. And….loved the video today. I would turn to goo if Clay sang that to me.
Happy New Years!
I loved reading the year reviews. Thanks for doing these. It had to take a lot of time.
This was the first time I saw the video. It was a good way to end the year.
Oh I've seen this video before and I think I was AT Clearwater…..Life's a blur ya'll!! Thank you for everything Martha and Happy New Year to you and everybody who comes to this site each and every morning!!
hey many thanks for those wonderfull reviews of the year also and i did love the video of clay singing what areyou doing new years eve and i have to say also that it was a good year for clay and clays fans i wish clay and his family a verry happy newyear in 2016and to you martha also a verry happy 2016 to everyone else