Lauren Conrad is seen leaving WeHo’s Hyde nightclub late Monday night right behind American Idol alum Chris Richardson. (Romance rumors were brewing back in April when the pair were spotted partying together.)

At the MTV Movie Awards earlier this year, Lauren told Just Jared that Chris is a “very sweet kid. He’s just a friend of mine… I’m not dating anyone.”

But they could be dating now! But probably not.

Lauren’s costar in The Hills Whitney Port (pictured inside) was also spotted at club Hyde… More Here! »

Chris Richardson and Blake Lewis, aka CAKE, kick off the 56-date and 35-state American Idols Live tour at the Bank Atlantic Center in Sunrise, FL, on Friday night.

Idol champ Jordin Sparks and Sanjaya Malakar spoke out about the upcoming tour at a press conference earlier in the day.

“Just seeing everybody, being able to perform in front of the eight-to-fifteen thousand packed out arena and that we’re not being judged,” Jordin said. “And I can wake up in a new place every morning, I think that’ll be really cool.”

“Being able to see my fans’ faces and shake their hands. Live performance like that is really the only way that you can really see them all or see as many of them that can come,” Sanjaya said.

Here’s the set list for American Idols Live 2007:

* Let’s Get It Started - Entire Group
* Baby Love, Stop In The Name Of Love - Girls
* Heard It Through The Grapevine - Chris Richardson & Ladies
* Proud Mary - Sanjaya Malakar & Melinda Doolittle
* Blaze of Glory - Phil Stacey
* Thanks For The Memories - Chris Sligh & Gina Glocksen
* When God Fearing Women Get the Blues - Haley Scarnato
* Thriller, The Way You Make Me Feel - Sanjaya Malakar
* Typical - Chris Sligh
* Lady Marmalade - Haley Scarnato, Gina Glocksen, & LaKisha Jones
* What Hurts The Most - Chris Richardson & Jordin Sparks
* This Will Be - Jordin Sparks & Melinda Doolittle (fighting over Chris Richardson)
* Time Of The Season - Blake Lewis
* She Will Be Loved - Blake Lewis
* You Give Love A Bad Name - Blake Lewis

* INTERMISSION

* Crazy - Guys (with instruments)
* Who Knew - Gina Glockson
* Virtual Insanity, Ain’t No Sunshine, Geek In The Pink - CAKE
* I Will Always Love You - LaKisha Jones
* Killing Me Softly - Melinda Doolittle (Blake beat boxes and Chris sings towards the end)
* This Love - Chris Richardson
* Another One Bites the Dust - Phil Stacey & Gina Glocksen
* It’s Your Love - Chris Sligh
* Life Is A Highway - Chris Richardson, Sanjaya Malakar and Haley Scarnato
* Natural Woman - Melinda Doolittle
* Ain’t No Other Man - Haley Scarnato, Gina Glocksen, LaKisha Jones, & Melinda Doolittle
* I Who Have Nothing - Jordin Sparks
* Heartbreaker - Jordin Sparks
* You Were Meant For Me - Jordin Sparks
* Broken Wing - Jordin Sparks
* Living On A Prayer - Jordin Sparks
* This Is My Now - Jordin Sparks More Here! »

American Idol’s Chris Richardson has his CAKE and eats it too!

To celebrate Blake Lewis making the top 2, Idol 6 contestants reunited at at Les Deux nightclub in West Hollywood on Wednesday — Richardson, Chris Sligh and Haley Scarnato.

The Hills star Audrina Patridge was also spotted at Les Deux. We hope she isn’t pulling fast one on BFF Lauren Conrad — it’ll be The Hills alllllllllllll over again. More Here! »

CAKE “minus the” AKE!

American Idol 6 contestant Chris Richardson drops by TRL on Thursday with guest co-host Rihanna, accompanied by fellow AI6 reject Phil Stacey.

Chris and Phil perform a mini-duet towards the end of their interview. Check out the video below –

For Chris’s performance plus interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show from Tuesday, CLICK HERE!

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American Idol finalist Chris Richardson sends out a message to all sons and daughters on his t-shirt — RESPECT YOUR MOTHER! (He’s worn this on the show before.)

Chris, 22, was spotted hopping out of a car on Friday with somebody special hiding in the backseat.

Guess who!

His lover boy, fellow Idol contestant Blake Lewis, 25.

The backseat boys were spotted entering the Sunset Marquis Hotel in West Hollywood.

Bottom 3: Phil Stacey, Haley Scarnato, Chris Richardson

To find out who’s going home, CLICK HERE!

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To the left, American Idol contestant Chris Richardson on April 10, 2007. To the right, Justin Timberlake at the MTV Video Music Awards on August 29, 2002.

Let me spell it out for you. JT’s doppelgänger = the shoulder straps, the red t-shirt, the black buttondown, the black pants, the pants chain, the sneakers.

If you call 5 years ago Justin Timberlake “contemporary”…

For the second week in a row, the most enjoyable American Idol performance of the night from the Top 8 guys was Chris Richardson’s rendition of Keith Urban’s “Tonight I Wanna Cry.” Admittedly, it wasn’t even that good.

In the intro segment, Chris, 22, revealed that he used to be chunky but lost forty pounds. As for his performance, here’s what the judges had to say:

• Randy Jackson: “You know what I love about you? Every week you come out here and you put the boys on blast. You sang a Keith Urban song. You put your own twist on it with the runs. Dude I like this, you’re switching it up. This kid is in it to win it!”
• Paula Abdul: “You picked a great song too. There’s that intonation in your voice that lends itself to a pop-country [genre]. You just adapted well. You picked a great song.”
• Simon Cowell: “It was good. I’m not jumping out my chair. It’s not the best vocal we’ve heard. It was cutesy. Your voice was a bit nasally to be honest with you. I still don’t think we’ve heard what you’re capable of doing yet. I just thought it was a little bit timid and safe. But you sold it. Anyone else, that might be a problem.”

Watch the video below of Chris Richardson perform “Tonight I Wanna Cry!”

Pictured below in Row 1 (l-r): Chris Richardson, Jared Cotter, Chris Sligh, Blake Lewis. Row 2 (l-r): Brandon Rogers, Sanjaya Malakar, Phil Stacey, Sundance Head

If I had to give the boot to two, it would definitely be Phil and Sanjaya (lay off the straightening iron, please).