Idol talk Mission Hills resident Maddie Lovern, 13, hardly expected to run into "American Idol" heartthrob David Archuleta while seeing a friend at Rady Children's Hospital last Saturday

The singer/songwriter, from Utah, was visiting a young patient with a life-threatening illness at the request of the Make-a-Wish Foundation. Maddie, with her mom, Michelle, and brother, Drew, bumped into Archuleta as he left the hospital. So Archuleta graciously posed with Maddie for an impromptu photo on her mom's cell phone.

Local Make-a-Wish head Chris Sichel said Archuleta was humble and generous and didn't hesitate to re-arrange his schedule and immediately fly in from Utah to grant the child's wish. "I didn't know much about him before, but I'm a big fan now," Sichel says...


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