David Archuleta on coming out, quitting Mormon Church and having crushes: ‘I’ve become young again’

There’s a grainy video on YouTube of a cherubic, then 16-year-old David Archuleta singing Elton John and George Michael’s “Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me” at the 2007 American Idol final.

Dressed in a slightly too big blazer, his hair gelled all fuzzy like a baby bird’s, and belting out a ‘70s ork-pop classic, he’s a boy cosplaying as a man. Cute as a button but with a matured, honeyed voice, he was the unanimous favourite to win the singing contest that year, but it wasn’t to be. In what remains arguably the show’s most contentious result, Archuleta lost the seventh season to rocker David Cook, to the sounds of teenage girls from Minnesota down to Mississippi bawling their eyes out. 

At the time, Archuleta

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