View original video on: www.msnbc.msn.com  —  The theme was ’80s music, and the question of the week for the eight male semifinalists was to name their most embarrassing moment. Considering one headline-making story, the setup seemed too good to be true.

David Hernandez has made news this week in a way he’d probably prefer to forget, as word of his previous career as a stripper raised some Internet buzz about his future on the show. The producers decided to keep him around, but he had to be nervous that the judges would try and get him out the old-fashioned way " by trashing him to the point where America would send him home.

But Hernandez chose not to cite anything from his stripper days as embarrassing, which at this stage is probably the smart move. And if he gets sent home this week, it will be strictly up to viewers, because the judges loved his performance of “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now,” a song made popular by Meat Loaf.
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