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"Phillip Phillips has celebrated his win on American Idol by giving his father a new $25,000 (\u00A315,900) car.  Phillips beat out contestant Jessica Sanchez earlier this week, winning a record deal and a $300,000 (\u00A3190,000) advance on completion of his first album.   Phillips was given the brand new 2013 Ford Fusion as a gift during the American Idol grand final last week, but sources told TMZ that the 21-year-old musician has refused to give up his own 2001 Ford Ranger truck. Phillips suffered from health problems during his time on American Idol, and underwent a total of eight operations while competing on the show.  He is scheduled to undergo another kidney surgery later this week.  It was recently revealed that "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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