NEW YORK (AP) — Bo Bice didn't win the fourth season of American Idol, but he did win his girlfriend's hand in marriage — and the No. 1 spot on next week's Billboard hot singles sales chart.
The American Idol runner-up wed Caroline Fisher in Helena, Ala., Bice's publicist, Roger Widynowski, confirmed to The Associated Press Thursday.
The couple, who have been together for almost two years, exchanged vows at the New Hope Presbyterian Church on June 15 and their marriage certificate was granted Thursday in Shelby County, according to a report in People magazine.
Bice, 29, and Fisher, 24, met when he worked as a guitar store clerk and frequented the Ragtime Cafe in Hoover, where Fisher worked as a waitress.
His Inside Your Heaven single replaces Idol winner Carrie Underwood's version of the same song at No. 1 on next week's Billboard singles sales chart, a first in the history of the sales chart, RCA Records said Thursday.
Hiya jonny...
Twice the Bice - how nice!
Good for him (I hear the baby's due in November)
Hey Jonny, great to hear from you!
Great news!
So happy for them. Can't stop smiling.
Must buy his CD to help support the fam =^)
Thanks for the ping jonny.
I'm on vacation but had to check in with my FRiends.
Do you think this marriage will last, given that Bo's road to stardom is just beginning?
By the way, I'd like to recommend another hot CD: Shooter Jenning's "Put the "O" Back in Country". Reminds me of that hot southern rock sound I used to play back in college. On LP's, no less.
Good boy, Bo! :)
Glad to see him stepping up to the plate and doing the right thing. When I heard that the girlfriend-now-wife was pg (or supposedly so), my surmise was that he didn't want to get married during the competition, since the news might derail some of his voters. (And who could blame him, really?) Not to mention, the hectic atmosphere of the competition would hardly be good for a honeymoon! But I am guessing they planned this all along, but were just waiting for a quiet moment to accomplish it.
As for their marriage lasting ... well, who knows? But Bo seems like a very nice, sweet young man who is not easily swayed by the trappings of fame. I think they might do just fine.