Portrayer: Zac Efron
Age: 21
Virgin |Smokes |Drinks: 
No| No| Occasionally
Relationship Status |Interested In:
Single| Tatianna Feitler
Family | Best Friend(s): Mother & brother (deceased)| Tom Ferguson, Jason Adler
Reputation: Hottie
Occupation(s): Works at a car shop


Biography: Nate was born and raised in California, son of a single mother and older brother to Sam. Nate loved his family and admired his mother for doing such a great job at raising two kids and trying to give him the best childhood as possible.

Nate had many friends at school and a lot of female attention because of his looks. He’s polite, well-mannered and has a great sense of humor. He doesn’t like hurting people’s feelings when there is no need for it but he refuses to take crap from anyone. Nate knows what and who are important in life and what/who isn’t.

Right after graduation, Nate’s little brother died in a car crash while Nate was driving. He denied his college acceptance letter and started working in a car shop
His singing voice might not be the best, but Nate does have the looks to get him through the competition.

Relationship with Vanessa Claire Anderson: After Vanessa’s failed engagement, Vanessa met Nate at a party. The two of them started hanging out a lot and Vanessa liked being around Nate, seeing he was a decent guy and he made her feel good about herself again. At first Vanessa didn’t really have feelings for Nate, but the more they started to hang out, the more she actually did end up liking him. After a few months of being in a serious relationship, Vanessa realized they were better off as friends and ended things with Nate.

Relationship with Maureen Rutherford: Ever since Nate entered the Idol house, Maureen has been chasing Nate, to his own annoyance. Nate doesn’t feel like being rude and can’t find a way to politely tell Maureen to stop seeking attention and that he simply is not interested in her in that way. Things get worse when Maureen’s behavior starts affection his friendship with Tom and  start ruining his chances with Tatianna.

Relationship with Tatianna Feitler: Nate never believed in love at first sight, that was until he met Tatianna. From the minute she walked into the room, Nate knew he was the girl he had to have. She was funny, carried herself with respect and knew what she wanted. He knew Tatianna liked him, he could tell from the look in her eyes and from when they spend time together. But something was holding her back. Nate was determent to figure out what was holding her back and was going to move heaven and earth to win her over.

Portrayer:  Ryan Rottman
Age: 20
Virgin |Smokes |Drinks:
No| No| Occasionally
Relationship Status |Interested In: 
Taken by Maureen Rutherford
Family | Best Friend(s): Parents & 3 sisters| Nate Kingsley
Reputation: Sports- obsessed
Occupation(s): studies Computer Science at UCLA

Biography: Tom was born and raised in Malibu, California alongside his three sisters. His father is a former professional football player and his mother works at Burberry. Already from a very young age, Tom has been obsessed with sports. He goes to the gym, runs, plays football, …

Even thought Tom grew up in California, he isn’t superficial, he actually is one of the good guys. One who would smile to everyone at school. To people’s surprise, he did hook-up with the biggest bitch in entire Malibu, Maureen.

Tom was forced to audition by his girlfriend and three sisters. He used to babysit his sisters  while their parents were out and his voice calmed them down. Tom is very down to earth, loyal, supportive and easy- going. Hardly anyone dislikes him.

Relationship with Maureen Rutherford: Tom loves Maureen to death,  but ever since senior year, she has been putting an awful lot of pressure on him. She wants them to be perfect, while Tom doesn’t mind imperfection. Once they enter the Idol house, a lot changes. Maureen starts flirting with Tom’s buddy, Nate. Which doesn’t pleases him at all. Tom knows Nate isn’t interested in Maureen, not even in the slightest, but it still bugs him. Will Tom continue put up with Maureen’s attention-seeking behavior or will he end things with her?

Portrayer: Joel Madden
Age: 24
Virgin |Smokes |Drinks: No| Yes| Yes
Relationship Status |Interested In: Divorced| Verity Eastham
Family | Best Friend(s): 2 brothers, 1 sister & 2 children| Jerry Robinson
Reputation: Misunderstood
Occupation(s):  works at a car shop and writes children books

Biography: Sam was born and raised in the state of Washington, alongside his 2 older brothers and younger sister. He didn’t exactly have the dream childhood most contestant had. Sam’s father abandoned the family , leaving a single mother with three teenage kids in a bit of a financial crisis. Sam and his brothers started taking numerous jobs just to help their mother to pay the bills. Sam graduated from high school and started working in a car shop. To take his mind off the financial problems at home, Sam jammed on his guitar and used his music as an outlet.

After high school graduation, Sam married his high school sweetheart, Sarah and they got two kids; Kate and James Griffin. Sam’s life wasn’t supposed to be like this, he got Sarah pregnant by accident and after Kate was born, Sam figured he might aswel just marry Sarah. Sure he loved Sarah, but being a father at such a young age, certainly hadn’t been his plan. After 4 years of marriage, Sarah and Sam decided to get a divorce, remaining friends.

Sam’s kids are his biggest inspiration, he wants to give them the childhood he never had. Hoping the singing competition will turn his life around.  Other than music and his kids, Sam loves writing children books.

Relationship with Verity Eastham: Ever since entering the Idol house, Sam’s eye fell on Verity. There was something different about her, sweet, innocent and pure. Her view on life was so simple, just being around her made him feel better.

If Sam stepped in a new relationship, it had to be with someone worthy of his love and his children’s love. It wasn’t about just him anymore, there were two little kids involved. Will Sam be able to win Verity’s heart? Is he really over Sarah and ready to jump into a new relationship?

Portrayer: Joe Jonas
Age: 19
Virgin |Smokes |Drinks:  No| No| No
Relationship Status |Interested In:  
Single| Shelley Morena
Family | Best Friend(s): 
Parents| Sam Griffin, Nate Kingsley
Reputation: Torn-up
Occupation(s): Personal Trainer

Biography: Jason is an only child, born and raised in the state of Arizona. His mother is a kindergarten teacher and his father is a minister. They support their son no matter what he does, they encourage him to be social, help people and such. His father being a minister, it gives Jason a lot of opportunities to sing in front of Church, which he loves doing.

His family is of the warm-hearted kind, they truly resemble the family image you see on commercial adds.  Jason is a charming guy who knows what girls want, he’s quiet the crowd pleaser. Jason’s parents want him to stay pure until marriage, but that isn’t something Jason wants to promise his parents. You never know what will happn in the future.

Relationship with Shelley Morena: Moving into the Idol house, Jason immediately knew Shelley was the kind of girl his parents would hook him up with. She was the perfect daughter-in-law kind of girl and he liked that. He liked how he could be himself around her and not be judged by his actions or believes. Knowing Shelley was quiet the innocent, sensitive kind of person, Jason wanted to take it slow with her. Let their love feelings slowly develop into a strong relationship.  After he slept with Roxie, Jason doesn’t know what to do. He knows what he did was wrong, having meaningless sex with a girl wasn’t right. Having meaningless sex with the best friend of the girl he liked was even worse. And the fact that that asshole of a Jerry busted them, made it even harder to keep a secret. The question was, who was going to crush Shelley’s world and take the risk of a huge fight in the Idol house?

Relationship with Roxie Williams: Jason looked at Roxie as if she was his little sister. He looked out for her and liked spending time with her. Only difference was, you didn’t actually have sex with your little sister. After Roxie had convinced Jason to go out partying with her, both  returned back home, completely drunk and ended up sleeping with each other.

Portrayer: Avan Jogia
Age: 19
Virgin |Smokes |Drinks: No| Yes| Yes
Relationship Status |Interested In: 
Single| Roxie Williams
Family | Best Friend(s): Parents| Sam Griffin
Reputation: Party boy
Occupation(s):  Actor

Biography: Jerry was born and raised in Texas, his parents are happily married and never have the intention of having any other child, other than Jerry. His parents were both hard-working people but spend more than enough time with their son, watching him grow up to be a strong personality.

Jerry always was the nice guy, the one every kind of crowd got along with, that was until Jerry joined the football team. Everyone at school wanted to hang out with him and all the attention slowly was rising to his head. He started smoking, drinking, partying and sleeping around.

If he’s not at school or partying, Jerry is doing auditions for his acting career, he’s still young and hasn’t had any mayor roles yet. But acting certainly is one of his passions.

Auditioning for American Idol first started off as a joke, people at school knew Jerry had a great voice and his teammates dared him to audition. As competitive as Jerry is, he auditioned and made it to the final ten. Being in American Idol is something Jerry is loving. He is loving all the attention he is getting, all the girls, all the parties, …

Relationship with Roxie Williams: Roxie and Jerry both are two lively, crazy people. Sure Jerry is a bit more of an extreme than Roxie is, but they understand each other and they both know how to have fun.  After spending some time with Roxie, Jerry realizes there is more to her than just a great bucket filled of fun. Strange feelings are starting to pop up, love feelings. Feelings he has never ever experience before in his life. But when he  sees Jason sneaking out of Roxie’s room early in the morning, Jerry gets jealous. Will he tell Roxie what he saw? Will he confront Jason? Will he tell Shelley?

Portrayer: Kevin Zegers
Age: 22
Virgin |Smokes |Drinks: No| Yes| Yes
Relationship Status |Interested In:
Single| Tatianna Feitler
Family | Best Friend(s):
Parents | Caleb Roughton, Jerry Robinson
Reputation: Bad influence
Occupation(s): Music producer

Biography: Chris is a successful music producer, working together with top-selling artists. He takes his job very serious and is pretty picky when it comes down to who he works with.

Chris lives for his job, without music, he wouldn’t be human. During the live shows he’s considered to be nicer than Caleb.
Other than his job, Chris loves going out partying with friends. He’s the kind of guy who would take the contestants out clubbing, just aslong as they perform excellent during the live shows. 
Chris doesn’t mind sex, drugs, alcohol and all those kind of things, on the contrary, he quiet enjoys them.

Chris enjoys flirting with the female half of the judging panel, Vanessa and Tatianna. Both girls don’t think Chris has the best influence on their contestants, especially not on Jerry and Roxie, who already are rather the crazy ones of the group. Jason who has his doubts on what his believes and values stand for and Danielle, who just is too shy.Even though Chris enjoys female company, you could always find him leaning more towards Tatianna. Knowing relationships between judges and contestants would be criticised in the media, Chris keeps making moves on Tatianna and they secretly become friends-with-benefits.

Portrayer: Ian Somerhalder
Age: 23
Virgin |Smokes |Drinks: No| Yes| Yes
Relationship Status |Interested In: 
Single| Danielle Lauritzen
Family | Best Friend(s): Parents & sister| Chris  Torrance
Reputation: Flirt

Occupation(s): Music executive

Biography: Caleb was born in New York City, being the youngest out of two children.His father is an independent building contractor and his mother is a massage therapist. Caleb always lived a normal life. His family wasn’t rich, nor pore. He didn’t have a lot of friend but he wasn’t a loner either. Back in high school Caleb did some modeling jobs for an agency but nothing too fancy. At the age of 16, Caleb discovered his talent for music and business. After discovering those talents, his future decision was easily made, he wanted to work for a record label as a music executive. The kind of guy who had to discover new talents, come up with new ideas, see if there was any future in songs/ people …

After a few relationships, Caleb decided to stay single for a while, trying to get over his broken heart. Ofcourse, like always in situations like these, it went together with lots of alcohol, lots of partying and a lot of rebound sex.
Relationship with Danielle Lauritzen: Caleb and Danielle met way before the competition on a holiday, they started a brief summer romance but somehow it didn’t end after three months of summer. Caleb actually started to love Danielle and knew she felt the same way about him. When both of them returned to their lives back home, their relationship lasted for a little bit longer until Caleb met Vanessa. Caleb broke up with Danielle, a decision he terribly regrets.

Relationship with Vanessa Claire Anderson: Caleb met Vanessa while he was doing charity work. They instantly clicked and he broke up with Danielle to be with Vanessa. As their relationship grew stronger, Caleb had convinced himself that Vanessa was the one, he got down on one knee and proposed to her.  A few weeks before the wedding, Caleb cheated on Vanessa and confessed his mistake.  Vanessa and Caleb broke up and Caleb decided to take some time for himself.

Portrayer: Ashley Tisdale
Age: 21
Virgin |Smokes |Drinks: No| No| No
Relationship Status |Interested In: 
Single| Nate Kingsley
Family | Best Friend(s): Father| Vanessa Claire Anderson, Chris Tarrance
Reputation: warm-hearted
Occupation(s): fashionista

Biography: Tatianna Feitler was born in Santa Barbara, California. Both her parents were Jewish. Her mother, a successful real-estate agent, originally from Israel and her father, a very famous television and movie producer, from Germany.

Tatianna grew up having everything a girl’s heart could desire, she had the family, the lifestyle, the looks, the friends.  But soon the first disappointment hit Tatianna’s life, her parents filled for a divorce. Her mother moved back to Israel, never reaching out to her daughter ever again. Meanwhile Tatianna and her father only grew closer, they had the most perfect father- daughter relationship and there wasn’t anything Tatianna couldn’t tell to her father.

When Tatianna graduated high school, her life changed, her boyfriend of four years, Lars died after their graduation party in a terrible car accident. Leaving Tatianna heartbroken.  She felt lost without her best friend and first love.

After getting a college degree and opening her own successful clothing store, things were going better.

Relationship with Chris Tarrance: Tatianna met Chris Tarrance at an award show and the two of them started hanging out. To Tatianna all there is between her and Chris is a friendship. Sure they are friends-with-benefits, but there is no love involved in it, at least not from her side

Relationship with Nate Kingsley: The minute Tatianna met Nate she was blown away. He was kind, respectful and good looking.  The more she started to hang out with him, the harder her feelings for him developed towards love feelings. The only thing that was holding her back, was the fact that he looked an awful lot like Lars and the fear of losing someone she loved again, was unbearable.  Will she ever get over that fear? Will Nate be able to win Tatianna’s heart?

Portrayer: Taylor Swift

Age: 18
Virgin |Smokes |Drinks: 
Yes| No| No 
Relationship Status |Interested In: 
Single| Jason Adler
Family | Best Friend(s): 
Parents & Brother| Roxie Williams
Reputation:  Innocent
Occupation(s): works at Taco Bell

Biography:Shelley was born and raised in Tennessee with her younger brother. She’s your ultimate daughter-in-law. She doesn’t go out until the breaking dawn, she doesn’t smoke, drink, do drugs. She’s polite, well mannered, doesn’t sleep around.  As a matter of fact, Shelley would like to save her virginity for her wedding night just because she thinks it’s a romantic idea.
Her previous boyfriends all broke her heart either because she was too much of a good girl, or she didn’t want to go to bed with them. 

Shelley is naïve; she would believe anything anyone says, which makes her an easy target for players, bad boys and drama queens. Luckily for her, she has got her group of friends looking out for her, pointing out the dangers for her.

Relationship with Roxie Williams: Roxie and Shelley met when they were still in elementary school at a summer music camp, ever since the girls have been inseparable. They give each other boy advice, music advices. Even though they might now feel comfortable singing each other’s music styles, they would always support each other. But once the girls move into the Idol house and meet Jason, things change. Shelley is madly in love but Roxie is acting weird. At first, Shelley doesn’t think something’s up between Roxie and Jason, but after a few fellow contestants pointed it out, Shelley starts becoming suspicious.

Relationship with Jason Adler:Ever since moving into the Idol house, Shelley felt attracted to Jason. He was well-raised, talented, knew how to have fun, Jason and Shelley get along just great and are starting to visibly get romantically involved with one another. That is until Jason suddenly started acting weird. Maybe is has something to do with Roxie –‘s guilty look each time she looks at Shelley?

Portrayer:Nina Dobrev
Age: 20
Virgin |Smokes |Drinks: 
No| Yes| Yes 
Relationship Status |Interested In: 
Single| Caleb Roughton 
Family | Best Friend(s): 
Parents & sister| Verity Eastham 
Reputation: Shy
Occupation(s): English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago

Biography: Danielle was born and raised in Illinois, her parents are happily married and she just became the sister to a little sister. She’s shy which doesn’t exactly make her be a popular girl. Hardly anyone really knows her and how sweet she really is, just because of her shyness. Danielle has a selected amount of friends, but the people who are lucky enough to be called her friends, are real friends. You would hardly ever find Danielle in any kind of fights or facing friend drama. 

She sings at home for her parents and baby sister but doesn’t think she is any good. Her parents singed her up for the competition and as a favor to them; she went and got in the final ten. Her parent’s and Verity’s support are pretty much the most important reason why she is chasing her dream, they give her confidence.

Danielle is quiet the smart girl and often referred to as the geek. She tries to run for Idol and study at the University. She loves studying so whenever she’s not rehearsing, spending time with Verity or Caleb, she’s with her head in the books, studying.

Relationship with Verity Eastham: Danielle met Verity at the audition. Being the shy girl doesn’t exactly make it easy for Danielle to make friends in the group. So having Verity by her side is a blessing.  Sure Danielle has her small group of friends at home, but they don’t understand Danielle’s dream to become a successful singer, they do support her but they don’t understand. Where else, Verity does understand. Both girls understand each other better than anyone else and try to push one another into being more open and doing new things they would never do back home or get the opportunity to do.

Relationship with Caleb Roughton: Danielle and Caleb used to have a short-term relationship in the past. Ever since their break-up, neither of them has ever seen or heard from one another. Danielle has been trying hard to forget about Caleb. Will her old feelings float back to the surface when Caleb and her meet again? Will they be reunited again?