Celebs Storm the White House Correspondents Dinner!

We gave Sanjaya, Valerie Bertinelli and Tim Gunn a camera – see who they mingled with at D.C.'s biggest party

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MEETING OF THE MINDS

And Malakar wasn't the only Idol contestant to descend on D.C.: Chris Sligh spends the evening mingling with Faith Hill, Tim McGraw and Valerie Bertinelli and her boyfriend Tom Vitale. At the dinner, Sligh told PEOPLE that post-Idol life has "been a lot of fun," adding, "It's opened up tons of doors."