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Pop Idol: Idols Made In Our Own Image

Sheryl Garratt, Observer, The, 3 February 2002

AND THEN THERE were two... Last night's penultimate episode of the latest 'water-cooler TV' left only two hopefuls, Gareth Gates and Will Young, remaining from the original 10,000 who set out to be crowned as Britain's Pop Idol. And the path to pop stardom is already being plotted for the winner.

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