The crying girl got quite a bit of TV time on Tuesday night’s show, to much actually with no explanation given. Was she special? There for some good reason? Nope, she’s just a regular fan with lots of tears of joy.

Ashley Ferl is a 13 year old fan that was at ‘Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader’ when she caught the American Idol rehearsal. She cried though all that too and producers pull her out and asked to come to the live show. I guess the more you cry, the more TV time you get. She even got a pair of earrings from Paula Abdul after meeting all the judges.

Don’t think you’ve seen the last of her. The word is she’s now going to hit the talk show circuit. That’s how unbelievably lame Talk Shows are getting.

It just goes to show, Idol can make anyone famous, even if just for 5 minutes.