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The Tao of Taylor Hicks

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EYES ASKEW Lyders vs. Hicks' mystery woman (Photo: Courtesy of MFOYA.com)

The differences, according to Gibson—none of which can be faked without comprehensive, extraordinarily risky facial reconstructive work:

• From front to back on the horizontal plane, beach girl's head is much narrower than Lyders'.

• Lyders' mandible—her jawbone and chin—is much larger than beach girl's.

• Lyders' nose protrudes to the front farther off the facial plane than does beach girl's.

• Lyders' ear tilts back farther on the vertical plane than does beach girl's.

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FACE OFF Head-to-head views of Lyders and Hicks' beach companion (Photo: Courtesy of MFOYA.com )
• Lyders' ear is lower on the horizontal plane in relation to the eyes and nose than beach girl's.

• Lyders' neck is much thinner and longer, in relation to head size, than beach girl's neck.

• Lyders' maxillary and mandibular bones protrude toward the front more than beach girl's.

Any of these independently is enough for our expert to declare without hesitation that beach girl and Lyders are in fact different individuals. "Taken together," Gibson says, the case is a slam dunk. "They are absolute proof that Lyders is not the same female as beach girl."

So are the Internet crazies actually right? Did Hicks really draft someone he didn't know to play his girlfriend because he was afraid his fans would freak out that he—gasp!—made out with some bimbo while on vacation in Hawaii? And did she really go along with it? Tough to say. Reached via cell phone while researching this story for our February issue, Hicks cryptically said, "I have a plane to catch," before hanging up. Recent attempts to contact him have been unsuccessful. (He is no longer with Sony, and has been performing in various malls around Southeast Asia.) Lyders has also gone MIA after parting ways with WISN in November. Whatever it was, it was for naught: Lyders and Hicks have supposedly broken up.

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