American Idol - The Finale!!

It's started!! Ryan and Simon bicker for a few seconds and then almost immediately, Blake and Jordin are singing "I Saw Her Standing There". Blake has terrible shoes on again.

Ryan throws it over to Gwen Stefani on tour. Mia thinks she's lip synching. It's hard to tell! Something's definitely off.

Kelly Clarkson!! Looking good in over the knee boots and a short dress!! She sounds fantastic!

Group song! Sanjaya still can't sing. All the guys are wearing white suits - I hate that look. Phil was allowed to take off his Navy uniform for tonight - that's a relief.

Ugh, Blake is rapping with some guy. Awful.

Now the girls! All in white as well. Gina's had a new haircut!! Haley's legs are still long.

Tony Bennett is well enough to perform and sings "Once In My Life".

Yay - Carrie Underwood is singing "I'll Stand By You". Carrie is my favorite Idol. Although she looks a bit odd wearing a long dress over jeans! Carrie is so gracious -thanks Idol and all her fans. She's very smart not to forget where she got her big break!

Sanjaya is getting his own segment - and oh my god - he's performing with Joe Perry from Aerosmith!!! What?????

GREEN DAY!!! Fantastic. The rumors were true. They sing "Working Class Hero".

The wizards at Idol have managed to coax Rubben Studdard out of hiding to sing with Jordin. Rubben still sounds great.

Poor Taylor Hicks - he had to follow Green Day.

Bette Midler - fabulous - wait - she's singing - Wind Beneath My Wings. Nooooooo. Mia and I are wondering what she's doing there - I suggested Bette needed a night out?

9:50 - only about 8 minutes left before we find out who wins.

American Idol tribute to Sgt Pepper!! Kelly Clarkson comes out first and sings Sgt Peppers, then out comes Hicks - enough said. Then Carrie again - looking so much better in a lovely short black dress and singing "She's Leaving". Suddenly she's being backed up by the Idols. They appeared out of nowhere. Rubben shows up and sings Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Is this medly ever going to end? It's 9:56 and still no winner. Now the Idols are singing "I'll get by with a little help from my Friends".

9:58 and there's a commercial. This doens't leave much time for the winner to sing "This is my Now" and sob.

10:03 - It's finally time. Ryan tells us there were 74 million votes. Simon and Randy both think it's going to be Jordin.

Dim the lights - it's JORDIN.

The crowd goes wild. She's excited. Blake doesn't really look that unhappy. Jordin expresses her love for everyone! It's over for another year!!

Hot Pants Scarnato Goes Home

Even the hot pants couldn't save Haley Scarnato this week on American Idol. Ryan Seacreast proclaimed that "after a record breaking 35 million votes", Haley was leaving the competition. She cried as she watched her Idol journey tape and then gave a horrible performance of "Turn the Beat Around". She seemed sort of relieved, but that could be my imagination.

Entertainment abounded in this filler full one hour results show. Somehow Fox persuaded Eva Longoria to be in the audience, along with Sharon Osborne, although neither of them spoke. There was an amusing little clip of Tony Bennett pretending to audition for Idol and Simon telling him he was the worst they've seen, Simon with some cute little girls in Africa, Ryan Seacrest asking the man on the street who should win, (Blake seems popular) and then Jennifer Lopez, wearing some weird kaftan like thing with splits in it, performing a song from her new album, surrounded by dancers wearing sunglasses and metallic jackets. It was an exhausting hour.

Sanjaya, of course, lives on another week. I can't imagine how he is going to survive "Country" week, but America seems to be in love with him. He's probably going to win the whole damn thing.

Next week's guest mentor/album plugger is someone who can actually sing - Martina McBride!!

American Idol: Latin Night Is Boring

Oh. My. God. Sanjaya is growing a mustache and a goatee. And I have to say that it's growing fast. Jennifer Lopez was the guest mentor, and she was quite nice to everyone and seemed to be into the job a lot more than Gwen Stefani . The theme was "latin" and all the girls seemed to choose a Gloria Estafan song and the boys just chose to wear really bad hats. Except of course Sanjaya, who let his hair do the talking, as usual.

Everyone was even more boring than last week, if that's possible. I can't remember anything anyone sang, but he image of the camera's panning up Haley's really long legs to yet another pair of hot pants is seared in my brain forever. Simon basically accused Haley of wearing skimpy outfits just to stay in the competition, because her voice wasn't good enough.

I hate to say it, but I don't think Melinda Doolittle is going to be safe this week, her performance was boring and the song was too old fashioned. Blake Lewis impressed the judges, but he was still massively irritating with the hat and the weird swishy leg moves.

Something better happen soon to brighten this season up - it's sooooo boring.

DialIdol.com is predicting that only Blake Lewis is safe, and Jordin and Lakisha will be in the bottom two!!!!!

Who says long legs and facial hair aren't assests in a singing competition?

Gina is Gone!!

I was really surprised that Gina Glocksen was eliminated on American Idol last night! I thought for sure that Phil was a gonner. Poor Gina, she cried on Ryan Seacrest's shoulder while they were showing her farewell video. I feel bad for her. She definitely wasn't at the bottom of the pack as far as I was concerned. Haley Scarnato was wearing another pair of hotpants, that made her legs look really long. Haley managed to squeeze out a few crocodile tears for Gina when she found out she was safe.

Apparently Tony Bennett couldn't stomach another evening on Idol, so he called in sick and Fox managed to talk Michael Buble into a "surprise" appearance, which by the way, was announced to all Michael Buble fans by email a couple of hours before the show.

In another astounding twist, Randy was wearing a shirt made from his grandmothers tablecloth and Paula was wearing the matching lace curtains. Simon didn't stray from his tight t-shirt wardrobe.

So, another week of Sanjaya hair, Sanjaya news, Sanjaya propaganda and Sanjaya lame singing. Sigh.

Universe of Sanjaya

Last nights Idol manged to reach whole new levels of boring. Tony Bennett was the guest "mentor" and all the Idols pretended to flip out meeting him, but I'm sure half of them had never heard of Tony.

Blake Lewis kicked off the night with his rendition of "Mack the Knife" and he was his usual irritating self. I don't know what it is about Blake, but everything he does irritates me and I don't know why the judges like him so much. He's trying too hard to be unique, but it just doesn't come naturally.

Melinda Doolittle delivered another great vocal performance, but I can't even remember what she sung. Her perfection is becoming boring, although I really like her.

Gina Glocksen is most improved every week. The judges didn't really like her vocals on "Smile", but I thought that she was good, and definitely has her own style.

Everyone else was blah! Even Lakisha, who insists on disregarding the excellent advice of the mentors, every single week. You can't tell me she knows more than Tony Bennett!!

And then of course we have Mr Sanjaya Malakar, dazzling in his ice cream white suit and slicked back hair, underwhelming us with "Cheek to Cheek". Dude cannot sing. At all. The judges have completely given up on even critiquing Sanjaya's singing. And when Simon said "Let's take a different tactic this week... incredible...", Sanjaya screamed out "Welcome to the Universe of Sanjaya". Is Sanjaya believing his own publicity? I doubt he will be gone this week. He'll probably make it to the final four at this stage.

If you are a huge Sanjaya fan check out the Sanjaya Fan Network . They have some great discussion boards going on everything Sanjaya, including his sister!! It's definitely worth a look if you are intersted in keeping Sanjaya on American Idol.

DialIdol.com is predicting that only Melinda Doolittle is safe and Haley Scarnato has the lowest number of votes!!

(www.SanjayaFanNetwork.com).

"Bye Bye, Curly"

Chris Sligh went home last night on American Idol. It was not unexpected after his woeful rendition of "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic". Chris was "off tempo" the whole way through the song and just didn't look comfortable, and then admitted to the Judges that he was off. Admitting you were off is on par to forgetting the words, and that was his ticket home.

Haley Scarnato narrowly avoided the boot, as she was in the bottom three along with Chris and Phil Stacey. Even Ryan Seacreast couldn't remember Haley's name,calling her Stacey before going to break. It was all quite predictable,as Chris was the worst of the night, apart from Sanjaya, who it appears is never going home.

Also predictable was Ryan Seacreast walking on stage wearing a Sanjaya mohawk wig. Randy Jackson pretended to look gobsmacked, and Simon was trying to fake a bit of shock, and weirdly they didn't show Paula's reaction,(maybe because she was trying to find her arms in those enormous sleeves she had on) It was a lame gag. Sanjaya thought it was the funniest thing he'd ever seen. He's clearly enjoying his 15 minutes.

I See London, I See France....

.....and, Haley Scarnato, I can see your underpants!! Mia and I are convinced that the camera took a shot straight up Haley Scarnato's skirt last night, just as she started to butcher and leave for dead, Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors". Haley perched on the stairs in a very short skirt and as the camera panned in on her, you could see straight up her dress!! If I can get some photographic evidence of this I'll post it .

The production wizards at American Idol probably did it on purpose to try and grab some attention away from Sanjaya's Mowhawk, which was just a disaster in and of itself. I won't even talk about his singing. As Simon put it "there's nothing that we can say to you at this point". I have no idea what song Sanjaya performed. I couldn't stop looking at that My Little Pony 'do!

Everyone else was massively ordinary, except of course for Melinda Doolittle, who sung a Donna Summer song, but looked awful. She needs some help from Sussanah and Trinny in the "What Not to Wear" department. Lakisha also sang Donna Summer and was good, Gina was the best she's been so far and everyone else was forgettable. Phil should be voted off just for wearing a hat. If you choose to be bald, be proud.

Gwen Stefani seemed underwhelmed with all the "talent", but was very diplomatic and sweet. Gwen seems like a very nice person.