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Daytime TV dynamo Kelly Clarkson<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s most cherished perk now that she has her own show is to laugh at the stars who snubbed her when she was just starting out, sources exclusively tell Life & Style<\/em>.<\/p>\n The 42-year-old \u201cSince U Been Gone\u201d singer recalled her rocky start in showbiz after winning the first-ever American Idol<\/em><\/a> title in 2002, when other entertainers jeered her. \u201cPeople were like really mean to us because we were from a talent show,\u201d she revealed. \u201cLike everyone was so rude to us, like on the red carpet, at the show. It was so bad. It was a horrible experience!\u201d<\/p>\n Still, Kelly proved her mettle by becoming one of pop\u2019s biggest female singers, scoring a dozen Number 1 hits and selling 45 million singles\u2014 AND hosting her own gabfest on NBC.<\/p>\n And as the Emmy-winning Kelly Clarkson Show<\/span><\/i><\/a> launched its sixth season on September 23, <\/span>an insider says Kelly is still keeping score! \u201cEven actors sneered at Kelly and other<\/span> American Idol <\/span><\/i>winners because Idol was drawing a bigger audience than their scripted TV shows, and they held it against her,\u201d says a buddy.\u201c<\/span>They saw Kelly as a pre-manufactured star<\/span><\/a> who didn\u2019t pay her dues!\u201d<\/p>\n But the friend adds Kelly is getting the last laugh because some of those stars now have agents who are begging to get their clients booked on Clarkson\u2019s talk show. \u201cKelly is above naming names, but when producers mention a star who wants to be on her show and she remembers they wouldn\u2019t give her the time of day when she was starting out, she just says, \u2018Nah!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n And the \u201cStronger\u201d songbird recently dished in an interview many of the entertainers who snubbed her \u201cended up on shows like I\u2019m from\u201d as judges or coaches. \u201cIt\u2019s funny what money does<\/a>!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n