American Idol - Idol Star Menard Diagnosed With Cancer

Former AMERICAN IDOL contestant LUKE MENARD has been diagnosed with cancer.

The 29-year-old - a finalist in the seventh season of the singing contest - is battling Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system.

A spokesman for the singer says, "Luke had a lingering cough and was having trouble breathing deeply, so he went to the doctor to have it checked out.

"The suspicion was walking pneumonia. But after a chest x-ray doctors saw a mass and did more testing, which is what led to the stage II Hodgkin diagnosis.

"They've been told that it's treatable and manageable. Luke is currently in Los Angeles and plans to return home to Indiana soon."

Menard is currently a member of a capella group Chapter 6.

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KT Tunstall has announced that she is to conjoin her drummer boyfriend afterward he proposed on Xmas Day.
The singer revealed on her web site how fellow Luke Bullen surprised her by turning up at her adoptive parents' plate to pop the doubt.
The drummer, world Health Organization plays in Tunstall's mount band, called her on Christmas Evening telling her he was with his friends in Norwich.
Just he was actually in a bar in Edinburgh with her brother and appeared at her parents' home in St Roy Chapman Andrews the followers good morning.
32-year-old Tunstall wrote on her website: "So, 11 o'clock on Dec 25 morning, the bell goes and it's Saint Luke suited and booted. With whole his bags. And a little box. Wrapped with a ribbon. He proposed!"
She added: "Organism an self-seeker, I obviously said yes! It feels smashing. Save an eye out for a little scintillate as I'm acting those chords."
Tunstall said Bullen, 34, had on the Q.T. visited her parents a month earlier to ask their permission.
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