Look what the Philly paper had to say about the results:

Team LaBelle Sings The Blues

"The winner? A choir from Cincinnati, led by singer Nick Lachey.

Yes, Philly, we lost to Jessica Simpson's ex-husband.

And it's going to seem like sour grapes, but from where we were sitting, Lachey's "choir" seemed like a backup group, chosen as much for appearance as for vocals (and indeed, he promised the other night that if his singers won, they'd get a backup gig on his next album)."

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Well, no, team Lachey was the REAL choir, with your hometown divas nothing more than a solo and backup group. Yeah, that Bumblebee thing was backup material, all right. And nice of you to throw out that Jessica Simpson reference, as if it's a good reason not to take him or his choir seriously. But you're right about the sour grapes...

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"LaBelle, who admitted she was surprised to have lost, since her fellow celebrity "choir masters" had all predicted a Team LaBelle victory.

"I learned to grow up in that second. It just made me a bigger person. It made me feel like a champion," she said.

But a not-undisappointed champion, perhaps.

"I thought it was about singing, not popularity," she said."

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Um, helllloo!?!? What part of this "voting-for-your-favorite-choir" process didn't you understand?

And in another write-up:

LaBelle politely asserts Philly really won

"Patti LaBelle sounded politely miffed shortly after Philly finished second on last night's finale of Clash of the Choirs.

After initially asserting, "It was a ripoff -- somebody stole it from me," she backed off a bit.

But only a bit.

(snip)

Mostly, though, the ever-pleasant Patti preferred to sound a positive note.

Would she demand a rematch? "Tomorrow, I'm going to say congratulations to my boy," she said.

"I'm still a winner, you know what I mean? I'm not taking anything away from Nick Lachey ... I'm 63, he's about 2. ... It's called Clash of the Choirs, not Clash of the Popularity," she said."

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B!tch.