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Melinda Doolittle
Many Idol devotees felt beatboxer Blake Lewis took the veteran backup singer's spot in season 6's final two against Jordin Sparks. "My commiserations, Melinda, cause you are one heck of a singer," Simon Cowell told Doolittle after her 2007 cut.