Idol's Matt Rogers, Wife Have a Boy

Tuesday May 02, 2006 07:00 PM EDT

Chris Polk/FilmMagic

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American Idol season three finalist Matthew Rogers and his wife, Teri, welcomed their first child, a son.

Brayden Douglas Rogers was born on April 16. He weighed 8 lbs. and was 21 inches long.

Rogers and Teri Himes, a mortgage processor, were married in February 2005 in Huntington Beach, Calif. Among the 300 guests was 2004 Idol runner-up Diana DeGarmo, who sang Shania Twain's "From This Moment On" as the bride walked down the aisle.

Rogers, a former mortgage banker and University of Washington football player, was the second of the 12 finalists to be voted off Idol's third season. After his ouster, he worked as offensive line coach at Mission Viejo (Calif.) High School.

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The husky crooner and aspiring actor told The Seattle Times in September that he'd gotten his weight down to about 260 lbs. "It's because of Hollywood," he joked.

He now co-hosts American Idol Extra, which airs Thursday on the FOX Reality cable network.