'Idol' eliminates 2 female, 2 male semifinalists (AP)

"Idol" contestants Janell Wheeler, Ashley Rodriguez, Joe Munoz and Alex Lambert were revealed Thursday to be the two female and male semifinalists with the fewest viewer votes, leaving 20 singers to compete in the popular Fox singing competition's ninth season.

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' "Happy" was "clumsy." "I am going to sing a song!" Rodriguez declared to host Ryan Seacrest after her ouster. The eliminations of male semifinalists Grady and Munoz, the 20-year-old crooner of Huntington Park, Calif., who sang Jason Mraz 's "You and I Both" to mixed reviews from the panel, shocked the fellow singers standing by their sides. The eyes of Tim Urban, a 20-year-old college student from Duncanville, Texas, widened when he heard it was Munoz instead of him.

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