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Constantine: The Sixth Backstreet Boy?

Wednesday Nov 30, 2005 6:00am EST

He may be a rocker, but Constantine Maroulis felt more like he'd joined a boy band when he arrived in the Philippines for a recent concert tour. "I got off the plane and they were waiting for me in the airport with signs," says the American Idol singer. "A whole fan group is over there. It's unreal. And the shows were a sea of thousands of people. I felt like I was a Backstreet Boy."

What was it like to be mobbed by admirers? "It can be sort of overwhelming, but I am a New Yorker – I have a pretty good sense about me," he told us at a recent DVD signing for The Best & Worst of American Idol at the Opus theater in West Nyack, N.Y. "Some girls are more enthusiastic than others, but I'm just flattered."

Now back in the States, Maroulis will have his first two U.S. solo shows on Dec. 21 at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, N.J., and on Dec. 22 at Atlantic City's House of Blues. Then it's a quiet Christmas with his "humongous" family in New Jersey, before heading to Los Angeles to shoot a pilot for his Kelsey Grammer-produced sitcom for ABC, based on the singer's Greek family and his "crazy rock 'n' roll life." And he doesn't have plans to slow down anytime soon. "I'm a workaholic, I've been doing this a long time," he says. "I'm just blessed to have these opportunities."