World Idol
World Idol Contestants
First World Idol (2003)
Kurt Nilsen	Winner	106 points
Kelly Clarkson	2nd	97 points
Peter Evrard	3rd	83 points
Heinz Winckler	4th	80 points
Will Young	5th	72 points
Ryan Malcolm	6th	62 points
Guy Sebastian	7th	56 points
Alicja Janosz	8th	55 points
Diana Karazon	9th	45 points
Alexander Klaws	9th	45 points
Jamai Loman	11th	36 points

World Idol (Germany: SuperStar Weltweit, Middle East: SuperStar El Alaam) was the title of a one-off international version of the television show Pop Idol, featuring winners of the various national Idol shows around the world competing against each other. Image File history File links WorldIdol. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kurt Erik Nilsen (born September 29, 1978 in Bergen, Norway), won the Norwegian version of the television show Pop Idol, aired on TV 2 in May 2003. ... Kelly Brianne Clarkson (born April 24, 1982) is an American pop rock singer. ... Peter Evrard (born October 19, 1974) is the winner of the first season of Idool 2003, the Belgian version of Pop Idol. ... Heinz Carl Heinrich Winckler (born 22 March 1978) was the winner of the first series of Idols. ... William Robert Young BA (Exon) (born January 20, 1979) is a British singer and actor. ... Ryan Michael Malcolm (born October 13, 1979 in Kingston, Ontario) is a Canadian singer best known as winner of the first Canadian Idol. ... Guy Theodore Sebastian (born October 26, 1981) is an Australian singer-songwriter and winner of the first Australian Idol TV talent competition quest in 2003. ... Alicja Alex Janosz (born June 11, 1985 in Pszczyna, Poland) was the winner of Polish Idol in 2002. ... Diana Karazon (Arabic: ديانا كرزون) (Born October 30, 1983 in Kuwait and raised and lived in Amman, Jordan) is a Jordanian singer. ... Alexander Klaws (born September 3, 1983 in Ahlen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German pop singer, who came to fame as the winner of the first season of the television show Deutschland sucht den SuperStar, the German version of Pop Idol. ... Jamai in the Efteling Jamai Loman (born June 30, 1986 in Gouda, the Netherlands) was the winner of the first series of Idols the Dutch variant on Pop Idol, pop singer and Dutch musical artist. ... This article is about the British television series. ...

The competition was held in December 2003. After presenting the competitors, viewers from the 11 participating countries were allowed to vote by telephone, but not for the participant from their home country. All participants sang in English except for Diana Karazon, who sang in Arabic. Hosts of the show were British presenters Ant and Dec, although CTV edited the show in Canada to use Canadian Idol host Ben Mulroney instead (the show on Fox, which used Ant and Dec as hosts, was not simulcast with the CTV feed, to prevent Canadians from calling the American toll-free Number to vote for Ryan Malcolm). The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Diana Karazon (Arabic: ديانا كرزون) (Born October 30, 1983 in Kuwait and raised and lived in Amman, Jordan) is a Jordanian singer. ... Arabic redirects here. ... Ant (left) and Dec appearing in an ITV 1 ident. ... This article is about the Broadcast Television Network CTV, for the broadcasting television company see CTVglobemedia. ... Canadian Idol is a reality television show on the Canadian television network CTV, based on the popular British show Pop Idol and its American counterpart American Idol. ... Benedict Ben Mulroney (born March 9, 1976 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian television host. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the company itself prefers the capitalized version FOX), is a television network in the United States. ... Simultaneous substitution or simsub, is the practice by which cable, direct broadcast satellite and multichannel multipoint distribution service television distribution companies substitute a local or regional signal over a foreign or non-local signal, when two or more stations are airing the same programming at the same time. ... A toll-free telephone number (or Freephone number in the UK) is a special telephone number, in which the calling party is not charged for the call by the telephone operator. ...

Judge Simon Cowell (from the original Pop Idol) was very critical of the format. He went as far as saying he hated it, in that it made the winners from the ten other Idol competitions into losers. Cowell also thought many of the judges were trying to copy his abrasive style. Television critics also panned the program, particularly as the UK phone voting was profit-making, whereas tradition dictates that Christmas specials of such programmes donate profits to charity. It was also claimed that the show existed purely as a marketing exercise for Cowell and BMG to expose Will Young and Kelly Clarkson to wider audiences. Simon Cowell (born 7 October 1959) is an English artist and repertoire (A&R) executive for Sony BMG in the United Kingdom, but is known as a judge on television programmes such as Pop Idol, The X Factor, American Idol and Britains Got Talent. ... This article is about the British television series. ... BMG (Bertelsmann Music Group) is one of the six divisions of Bertelsmann. ...

Victoria Beckham performed her UK#3 hit Let Your Head Go during the results interval.
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Results

The points awarded (Eurovision style) were: Eurovision redirects here. ...

_{Each country's Idol automatically gained the maximum 12 points. Therefore the most points an Idol could gain from another country was 10}

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Judges

The judges of the competition were:

• Randall Abrahams (South Africa)
• Simon Cowell (representing United States, is also judge on original UK show)
• Nina De Man (Belgium)
• Ian "Dicko" Dickson (Australia)
• Shona Fraser (Germany)
• Jan Fredrik Karlsen (Norway)
• Elias Rahbani (Pan-Arabia)
• Henk-Jan Smits (Netherlands)
• Pete Waterman (United Kingdom)
• Zack Werner (Canada)
• Kuba Wojewódzki (Poland)