IF YOU WERE hoping for the most contested election results since Bush-Gore 2000, we're sorry to inform you that Adam Lambert will not be taking his "American Idol" defeat to Kris Allen to the justices of the Supreme Court.

Or even to judges Randy, Kara, Paula and Simon.

The tainted texting that at first was believed to have given Kris an edge has been diminished both by AT&T and Fox.

The problem stemmed from what AT&T called a few overeager employees helping Allen fans at an Arkansas viewing party power-text multiple votes for their hometown hero.

AT&T said that in the future the company will ensure that employees understand that its sponsorship of "Idol" "celebrates the competition, not individual contestants."

In a separate statement, Fox and the show's producers said they were certain that the results were "fair, accurate and verified" and that the integrity of the voting process was protected against unfair influence.

Thank goodness. America could not handle an "Idol" scandal at this time.

* Maybe TLC should change the name of its top-rated show to "Jon & Kate Plus Hate."

E!'s Ted Casablanca spoke with Jason Hummel, brother of the alleged girlfriend of Jon Gosselin, and he said, "[Jon] is a liar, cuz he did cheat, and unfortunatley [sic] I had to hear him cheating."

"Him n Kate are just trying to save their show, which pays for their livelyhood [sic] by the way," Hummel wrote in a poorly spelled e-mail. "I would love for him to call me a liar on the show. As far as I'm concerned f--- Jon, Kate, my sister and TLC. I hope misfortune finds all of them in the near future."

Oh, that must be some nurturing environment for the children.

Life & Style, meanwhile, reports "Jon and Kate never came near each other," said an observer who witnessed a recent day's shooting. "The whole time the cameras were rolling, Jon looked really uninterested."

Jon's friend Brian Sep told Life & Style, "There have been some perks to the fame," including free trips, plastic surgery for Kate, clothes and, a custom-built motorcycle for Jon, but Jon seems to be rethinking the fame thing now that his cute little family show has morphed into a tabloid feeding frenzy.

"I think this will be the last season," Sep said. "Jon wants it to end."

(That makes two of us.)

But, "If [Jon] has a contract with TLC to do more seasons of the show, having marital problems with his wife wouldn't automatically let him out of it," entertainment lawyer Quinn Heraty told Life & Style.

Shouldn't it?

When, Tattle wonders, does TLC become culpable for its help in destroying a family? Being that it's far and away TLC's most popular show, will anyone at the network exhibit a willingness, at some point, to simply turn off the cameras and let these fame-created Frankensteins try to salvage . . . something.

Who would have figured when this intrusive show began that dealing with their eight kids would be the least of Jon and Kate's problems?

Made in the Shady

Reports of Eminem's demise seem to have been greatly exaggerated.

"Relapse," his first new album in five years, sold 608,000 copies last week, the most of any album this year.

Last week's chart topper, Green Day's "21st Century Breakdown," slid to No. 2, adding 166,000 copies sold to the 215,000 copies sold in its initial, abbreviated three-day sales week.

Tattbits

* The Hollywood Re-

porter says Al Pacino is in talks with HBO Films to star as Dr. Death, Jack Kervorkian, in "You Don't Know Jack."

Barry Levinson ("Diner") will direct.

Kevorkian allegedly assisted in more than 150 cases of suicide before finally being convicted in 1999 of second-degree murder.

Sounds less like a pick-me-up and more like a put-me-down.

* In another based-on-a-topical-

news-story movie, the Hollywood Reporter says Naomi Watts will play outed CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson in "Fair Game." Sean Penn will co-star as her husband, Ambassador Joe Wilson.

Doug Liman ("The Bourne Identity," "Mr. & Mrs. Smith") will direct.

* Hugh Jackman may be Wolver-

ine, but his 9-year-old son, Oscar, seems to be a plain old wolf.

Jackman told reporters in Mexico that Oscar spotted a group of teenage girls one day, turned to him and said, "Hey, Dad, 2 o'clock, hot chicks."

People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" for 2008, said the conversation made him squirm. But Jackman says his son marched right up to the girls and declared, "Hey, you know that my dad's Wolverine?" *

Daily News wire services contributed to this report.

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