This Is My Now

It definitely was Jordin Sparks' NOW last night, as she out classed and out sang and out dressed Blake Lewis every step of the way during American Idol.

The winning song from the writing competition "This is my Now" wasn't too bad at all and Jordin sung it with such passion that she couldn't even hold it together at the end and started to cry. Blake couldn't hold it together for other reasons, it was obvious he hated the song and didn't really put that much into performing it. He was probably mesmerized by his own hideous gold shoes. Where did he get those?

Overall Simon said that Blake performed the first song the best, but Jordin "wiped the floor" with him in the the singing department. Paula loved everyone equally, and Randy, dressed as some throwback from Sgt Pepper, liked Blake but gave the night to Jordin.

Ryan made a point of mentioning Paula's broken nose and then called her dog a bitch, but implying that he was really talking about Paula. She took it well.

Jordin to win it all!!

Oops - Bad Call America.

Melinda Doolittle is out of the running to be America's next Idol. This is not a complete shock, as her personality is a little bit flat, even though her voice is spectacular.

So, that leaves Jordin Sparks and Blake Lewis in the finale. I can hardly stand it. I think this means that Blake will win the whole thing. Jordin is just a bit too inconsistent and young. And Blake has his vast army of fans and his sobbing father on his side. (After last night's visits home, don't you find it a bit weird a grown man calling his father Daddy?)

Melinda took the rejection well, no sobbing on stage . My Tivo cut out before I could hear what Simon had to say about the whole situation, so if anyone heard it, please tell me!

The only highlight of the evening for me was Jackie Collins in the audience!! Maybe she's writing a novel about tacky reality shows?

Brace yourselves for next weeks saccharine and lengthy offerings from Idol!!

Who Will It Be????

I have no idea who is going to get through to the final two in American Idol, after last nights performances. All three were pretty evenly matched if you look at the big picture, and Dial Idol has them neck and neck.

Overall, I still can't stand Blake but he did "bring it" last night with all three songs, and Meldina's voice can't be beaten, and Jordin has the best personality.

Jordin sang "Wishing on a Star" by Rose Royce - Simon's choice, "She Works Hard for the Money" - producers choice, and her own choice was "I who have nothing". Overall everyone thought she was great, fantastic, hot and Simon said he didn't like the arrangement of the Rose Royce song, and that he felt I Who Have Nothing was too old for Jordin to be singing. She'll get the sympathy vote for Simon's comments. Ryan tried needling Simon, saying that Simon didn't even like the song that he chose.

Blake sang Roxanne - I hated it. Paula loved it. He then sang some Maroon 5 song which was OK and then some terrible Robin Thicke song, which he clearly stole from Beethoven. Hated that too. Paula said Blake was "in his element". I said "Blake, you should watch yourself in a mirror when you do those irritating moves - then maybe you'll quit".

Melinda aced a Whitney Houston song, Nutbush City Limits and I am Woman. All good, with a smidge of personality creeping out in each song.

Prediction: Melinda/Blake final two. Hope: Melinda/Jordin final two.

Kellie Pickler is in Denial

Kellie Pickler, the poor man's Carrie Underwood, will not admit that she has had "work" done. Isn't it obvious?

Anyway, Ryan Seacrest persists in asking Picker if she has been enhanced

On Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM radio show Monday morning, Seacrest asked Pickler how she felt about people's comments on her "supersize" figure after she made a
guest appearance on this season's Idol.

She replied: "Are you talking about my boobs again? Why are you looking at my boobs anyways, you pervert?"

"I'm not looking at them, America is looking at them," Seacrest said.

Pickler responded that she simply appeared to have a fuller physique because "My hair was shorter so everything else looked bigger. [Besides,] I'm 20, my boobs are supposed to be perky."

Hmmmmm, you be the judge.

Lakisha Goes Home.

In an expected turn of events, Lakisha Jones was sent home last night on Idol, and Blake Lewis made it into the top three with Jordin and Melinda. People out there in TV land sure like their beat boxing.

Barry Gibb showed up with his shirt tucked in and his hair brushed, a vast improvement on the night before an sang something. I fast forwarded through it. Sorry, Barry.

The best part of the filler full hour was a short clip of the Idols talking about their childhoods, and their dreams. Strangely, three of the four are only children. I don't know why that's strange, it just is. Another great moment was Ryan Seacrest talking to random people at the Farmers Market and these two girls spontaneously gave imitations of Paula clapping like a seal. It was hilarious.

Ryan Seacrest had a strange moment hiding Jessica Alba behind him, and then Jessica hogged the microphone giving Fabulous Four a lengthy plug.

Only two weeks to go!! What a ride it's been, mostly downhill.

Idol Gives Back - The Recap!

Ryan Seacrest announces that not only did they get 70 million votes last night, it was going to be the most shocking elimination EVER!!!! OMG!! Is that a suit Simon is wearing??

Hey - it's Ellen De Generes - who asks if she is getting kicked off? I think it's going to be Melinda - that would truly be shocking! Ellen introduces Earth, Wind and Fire. Is that the original guys? They don't look too bad, and they sing a medley!

Quincy Jones mentors the Idols and writes and anthem for them - Time To Care!! Then Quincy conducts and the Idols sing their caring anthem. Blake still looks irritating.

Ben Stiller!! I love Ben Stiller!! Ben sings and threatens not to stop until $200 million has been raised. We are only 30 minutes into the program and already Ryan is torturing the contestants with safe/not safe. Melinda is safe. I was wrong. Blake is safe. This elimination is turning out not to be so shocking after all. Unless of course it's Jordin - gasp!

Jack Black! Jumps on stage and sings Kiss From a Rose - he's fantastic!! Simon says he's better than Sanjaya (whose in the audience - and so is Seal!!) Seal loves him too. Carrie Underwood sings "I'll Stand By You" while they show a montage of Carrie in Africa! She sounds fantastic. Rascal Flatts sing.

Phil is safe!! That means Lakisha, Jordin and Chris are the bottom three - WHAT?? Jordin??

Ellen personally donates $100,000. Then Josh Groban sings "You Raise Me Up". Everyone is getting teary. Kelly Clarkson wearing some kind of Janis Joplin mumu thing, sings Up to the Mountain. The crowd goes nuts.

Lakisha is safe. What's going on here - this leaves Chris and Jordin. I'm not getting a good feeling.

Celine Dion and Elvis. Elvis is in the building - I'm so excited. It's hologram Elvis!!!! It's bloody brilliant. Elvis is really standing there next to her. They are singing "If I Can Dream". I LOVE it.

Finally the elimination - it's NOBODY!! Everyone is safe!! How cruel. Jordin is in tears. Next week two people go home. Yikes. Total let down. Bono finally shows up!! Idols sing "American Prayer". It's all over.

Dial Idol - Will They Be Right Again?

Dial Idol has Chris Richardson with the lowest number of votes!!! I'm dying to find out who goes home tonight - it really could be anyone except Jordan. I still think it's either Lakisha or Chris, although I'd love it if it was Blake.

Tonight on American Idol it's going to be quite the extravaganza. Kelly Clarkson will perform, there will be footage of Carrie Underwood in Africa, and the moment I can't wait for Celine Dion and Elvis Presley performing a duet!! Yes, THE Elvis, through the miracle of modern technology, back from the dead! Ellen De Generes is hosting on the Kodak Theatre stage, and Ryan Seacrest in the regular studio. Make snacks!! It's two hours long. See you on the other side!

I Hope Dial Idol Gets It Right

Dial Idol is is predicting that Sanjaya Malakar is the lowest vote getter from last night's American Idol, and Blake Lewis is the second lowest. They have Phil Stacey as "Safe" and Jordin Sparks coming second.

While I find Blake massively irritating, if he gets the boot tonight, I can only believe that the whole voting thing is rigged and that Idol producers are keeping Sanjaya around to milk the buzz and the ratings as long as possible.

Simon Cowell made it pretty clear last night in his comments that he's fed up with Sanjaya and his magical publicity machine and it's time for him to go. Simon probably would have really started to get brutal with his comments, but Ryan Seacrest stepped in and stopped Simon. Does Ryan know something about Sanjaya's fragile mental state that we don't know?

Finger's crossed, everyone!!

And I didn't even see this go down last night!!! I'm sure Simon is telling the truth, because he made his own comments about Virginia Tech at the end of the show!

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!!

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.

Felicity Huffman Couldn't Be Bothered To Get Dressed

Felicity Huffman was booked to appear on Ryan Seacrest's morning radio program, and took the whole "radio" thing way too seriously. She wore her pj's!!! And to make matters worse she showed up on the wrong day!!

I can't believe she left the house looking like that!! Maybe she did it on purpose, so that next time she's out and about, she'll look fantastic, comparatively speaking!

(source)

Simon Trys to Out Ryan

Last night's American Idol will probably be remembered most for the exchange between Ryan Seacrest and Simon Cowell, which I'm sure was totally scripted. Ryan was interviewing Melinda Doolittle before she sang and she said she didn't like her high heels. Then Ryan and Simon had the following exchange:

Ryan: Any advice on the high heels, Simon?

Simon: You should know Ryan. (audience screams on cue)

Ryan: Stay out of my closet.

Simon: Come out. (eye roll)

Audience and Melinda Doolittle freak out. Scripted. I'm sure of it. It was the eye roll that gave it away.

Other than that, it was a totally boring except for Melinda Doolittle, who made Paula cry with her rendition of "Home", Lakisha Jones and Jordin Sparks, who were all exceptional. All the men sucked, and the rest of the women were only OK, and Diana Ross' hair was bigger than Texas.

American Idol Gives Back

Last night on American Idol, Ryan Seacrest finally made the announcement that he's been threatening us with all week. I have to admit I was more shocked at this announcement, than the fact that Sanjaya made it through to the final twelve. In my pea brain I was convinced that Ryan was going to announce a nation wide song writing contest, and the winning song would be used in the finale of American Idol in May. I was wrong.



American Idol is teaming up with Charity Projects Entertainment Fund for a two night special American Idol Gives Back!

On 24 and 25 April, the Idol shows will raise awareness and money for underprivileged children in Africa and here in the US. Coca Cola, Ford and AT&T, are all going to give money for every vote called in and then on the results show, America will have a chance to give.

It's going to be quite the event on April 25. A crazy cast of characters will be performing, Annie Lennox, Bono, Borat, Pink, Gwen Stefani, Michale Buble and Il Divo. Wow. My head hurts.

This TV event is going to be huge. I'm sure that Idol Gives Back will raise gazillions of dollars. Now if they'd only give us back the hours of our life that we've spent listening to Sanjaya sing!

Antonella Sticks Around Another Week

I guess America likes Miss Antonella Barba! She was not voted out of American Idol last night much to my horror.. She can't sing to save herself, and knows it, so maybe having all these leaked photos of her in compromising positions is not such a bad thing after all. Everyone is talking about her, so it's true that there is no such thing as bad publicity. She did have the grace to look a bit surprised that she wasn't going home. I wonder if the producers didn't boot her out of the show because they are relying on "America to Decide" and do the dirty work for them.

Simon Cowell said yesterday that it was disgusting that the photos were leaked as they were private. Hmmmm. Maybe she leaked them herself?

Paula was looking freshly botoxed last night. A mildly amused look and an unwrinkled forehead gave the game away.

Even more shocking to me than Antonella getting to stay on Idol, were Kellie Pickler's new, enormous boobs. Kellie was singing to promote her new single. Ryan Seacrest asked what she'd been spending her money on while looking directly at her massive new chest, and Pickler replied "shoes". Seacrest kept pushing "Is that all?". She wouldn't say, but trust me, you couldn't miss them!

Links To Take Your Mind Off Murder Accusations

Britney Spears is totally ignored at a party on Saturday night due to her ugly wig. X17 photographers believe she is currently holed up in the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Posh Spice tries to take her kids to Disneyland for a fun afternoon and things get out of hand and photographers scare the boys.

Brad Pitt takes his shirt off in Interview magazine.

Ryan Seacrest is embarrassed by the first season of American Idol

Lindsay Lohan makes sure that nightclubs still exist after her stint in "rehab.

American Idol

Last night Randy, Simon and Paula chose the twenty four contestants who will be competing to be the next American Idol. The forty that survived Hollywood week were narrowed down yet again in the totally unnecessary hour long episode, where each of the forty get to sit in the chair in front of the judges and are told their fate. This is totally fabricated drama. Of course, I still watched it, only to find out that very few of the people chosen I remembered from the last four weeks of auditions. That of course will change next week, when we will be treated to never ending snippets of run of the mill lives of the potentially famous.

Click here to meet the final 24

Meanwhile, Paula has strongly denied that she has ever been drunk or touched drugs

“I’ve never been drunk. I have never done recreational drugs. Just look at my
20-year career. Tell me someone who is into partying or doing drugs that could
have done that.”

Good point Paula, but how do you explain all that totally erratic behaviour that you display every second episode? Or is it just a big act?

American Idols...

Jennifer Hudson looking glam in Roberto Cavalli. She looks like she's lost weight since the Golden Globes!

Carrie Underwood, Grammy Winner for Best Country Vocal at the pre-Grammy's looked stunning on the Red Carpet, but did throw a hissy fit when she got something in her hair, while talking to Ryan Seacrest.

SAG Awards!

The Screen Actors Guild Awards were held last night at the Shrine Auditorium in LA. The whole atmosphere was so much more relaxed than the Golden Globes, and all the actors happily chatted with Ryan Seacrest showing off their finery. Ryan Seacrest himself wasn't even taking things too seriously, as he stood on a box when interviewing Desperate Housewives' Brenda Strong, as she is very tall, and pointed out to Ryan that she was wearing five inch heels.



Vanessa Williams obviously took took our words to heart after the big hair disaster of the Golden Globes and had her hair flat ironed within an inch of it's life. I love this look on Vanessa. It is much more flattering and she looks years younger. The dress is also a fabulous color.

Reese Witherspoon looked sensational as usual.

I loved Sandra Oh's dress except for the big black spot in the middle. It might have been great in person, but it looked very strange on TV. Like she'd had an accident on the way over in the limo.

Chandra Wilson from Grey's Anatomy won for Best Actress TV Drama and also as part of the Grey's Anatomy Ensemble Cast award. Chandra looked fantastic and was glowing on stage as she accepted her award.

Wednesday Morning Links

Oops, Britney Spears, please tell us you haven't done it again (MSNBC)

Ryan Seacrest out classes and out rates Joan and Melissa on the Red Carpet (A Socialite's Life)

We can't wait for Posh and Becks to move to L.A. either!! (PopSugar)

Why the long face, Angelina Jolie? (A Socialite's Life)

The Amazing Race, the best reality show on TV, announces the contestants for the All Star Season! (Reality Blurred)

For the record , I think that Ryan Seacrest is great at the Red Carpet and also on American Idol. He has definitely found what he's good at and is making the most of it!!