Final Four already picked?

Every year there's clammoring that Idol is "rigged," "predetermined," "fixed," "set-up," etc., and these complaints are usually a side effect of a fan favorite being sent packing. This season, it seems like the rumblings are coming early - try Top 11 week early - and the source? An alleged Idol staffer.

In today's New York Daily News, "Gatecrasher" columnists Laura Schreffler and Sean Evans wrote about some unnamed staffer that has been going around telling everyone that Danny, Adam, Alexis and Lil are this season's Top 4 contestants and the producers are already planning for the scenario. Schreffler and Evans wrote:

If it was just her prediction, she’d be spot-on with this week’s TV Guide, which also chose those exact four wanna-be crooners as its picks for stardom.

But the lass took it a step further, claiming that higher-ups at the hit Fox show were taking an issue with two of the top contenders.

“Adam Lambert and Lil Rounds are better singers and musicians than Gokey and Grace, but they’re too much like past winners and ‘A’ successes,” the woman said. “Adam’s too close in style and sound to Chris Daughtry, while Lil Rounds is a dead ringer for Fantasia. Even their background stories are similar!

“The producers really want it to be Danny or Alexis. They think they’re very commercially viable, have a good image and a great story.”

Whoa, Adam is just like Chris Daughtry!? I don't think so. And Lil is the spitting image of Fantasia? Maybe in the appearance department, but Lil's vocals are leagues different than Fanny's (and by "different" I mean "better").

Only time will tell if this unnamed staffer is on to something or if she is just pulling everyone's chain. But that is IDOL LIVE's original Top 4 predicition with the exception of Alexis (Anoop will be in there instead), so it wouldn't be that much of a stretch to believe it.