Last night, 24-year-old David Hernandez was the first of the top 12 to say goodbye to American Idol after receiving the lowest amount of votes this week. He received negative feedback from the judges on Tuesday night after singing “I Saw Her Standing There” from the Lennon/McCartney songbook. Hernandez was much talked about in the press in the past week when it was revealed he used to work as a stripper at a club with a “mostly male” clientele. He didn’t refer to that on the show however, saying his life outside Idol involved going to school and working at a pizza restaurant. Also in the bottom three were Kristy Lee Cook, 24, who was criticized for giving a country flavor to “Eight Days a Week” and Syesha Mercado, 21, of Florida.
