No American Idol

I've been informed by a former student of mine that, even if I tried to enter the American Idol competition, I would definitely be disqualified because of age. It seems I am approximately two decades too old.

Isn't there a Canadian version of this show? Perhaps they would accept me. After all, our population seems to be ageing faster than that of the United States, which means there would be a smaller pool of young people to draw from. They might be forced to dip into the vast reservoir of those of us who are, shall we say, chronologically challenged.