Before you jump out of your seats to call Photoshop foul on this heartwarming candid of Timberlakian Idol finalists Blake Lewis and Chris Richardson snuggling up backstage as co-contestant Sanjaya Malakar lurked just feet away, lustily soaking in every boy-on-boy caress from behind a massive pair of bug-eyed Christian Dior sunglasses, a keen-eyed Towleroad reader has already spotted the original on a wire photo site. (Just kidding! Here's the real, unaltered image.) Still, we were impressed enough with the quality of this specimen to share it with our readers, to say nothing of its implied tenderness; the slash-Photoshop-fic artist could have easily gone the hardcore route, as did the author of that other tampered Idol image currently circulating the internets, of Melinda Doolittle as a latex-clad dominatrix disciplining a naked, ball-gagged Ryan Seacrest. (At least we think it was tampered.)

• Idol's Chris Richardson and Blake Lewis Get Cozy [Towleroad via Reality Blurred]

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