After 620 million votes, 100,000 auditions, a new judge and a bikini girl, Kris Allen has snatched this years American Idol title. This shock result occurred despite Simon Cowell predicting that Adam Lambert would steal the crown.

In the final showdown each contestant had to sing three songs, their own favourite, a choice from Simon Fuller, and the winner’s single ‘No Boundaries’. On the results show the pair took part in collaborations with Keith Urban and Kiss, I’m sure you can guess who sang with who and they ended with a duet of the Queen classic, ‘We Are The Champions’.

Kris has proved the dark horse from this season. He started off in near obscurity, receiving little coverage during the audition stages of the show. The turning point seemed to occur in week nine when he set the spines-a-tingling with his rendition of ‘Ain’t No Sunshine.’ He seemed shocked to win last night but Afam took the blow like a real man and there seems to be no doubt that he has a shining career ahead.

For me the highlight of the night had to be a bikini (and shirt-dress)-clad Kara joining Katrina “Bikini Girl” Darrell on Mariah Carey’s “Vision of Love.” Hi-bloody-larious!