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No one goes home. Seriously
We should have known.
But we didn’t.
All of the “American Idol” finalists are safe this week. That’s right, no one’s going home.
Throughout tonight’s two-hour “Idol Gives Back” extravaganza, host Ryan Seacrest kept promising we’d be “shocked” by this week’s results. And he wasn’t kidding.
“How could we let anyone go on a charity night?” Seacrest asked after revealing the producers’ not-so-little secret.
Earlier in the evening it sure looked like someone was about to leave. In between performances from big-name stars and pleas for donations to help fight poverty around the globe, Seacrest told the contestants one by one they were safe.
Melinda Doolittle got the good news first, then Blake Lewis, Phil Stacey and LaKisha Jones. Either Chris Richardson or Jordin Sparks was about to get ejected, or so it seemed.
When Seacrect told Chris he was safe, we — along with most of the country, we presume — started yelling at the TV. Surely there had been a mistake. But, no, Jordin soon learned she, too, was safe — but not before she starting bawling.
So. Very. Mean.
So what’s this all mean? Well, next week two people will go. This week’s 70 million votes will be rolled into next week’s tally, and the bottom two are history.
Not exactly fair, if you ask us. But you didn’t. And neither did the “Idol” showrunners.
Guess we’ll save that bottle of bubbly for next week, when Chris will surely be axed. Surely, right?
Comments
By Poopy Ponytail
April 26, 2007 3:33 AM | Link to this
What an interesting show. A pretty cool show and cause were ruined at the end by the trick played on Jordin. Pretty cold-blooded. I’m thinking they are going to have a PR job to do on that one.
And have you ever seen anyone more uncomfortable in their own skin than Simon Cowell, both in the videos in Africa and on onstage with Ryan Seacrest? The Africa footage was painful to watch; not only because of the subject matter, but also because Simon couldn’t possibly relate to human suffering in any way. Talk about an elistist! Ryan, Paula and Randy acquitted themselves well, though.
Not a big Carrie Underwood fan, but I’ll Stand By You was terrific. As was You Lift Me Up by Josh Grobin and the children’s chorus. Contrived? Yes. Effective? Yes. It’s hard to mess up little kids who have been taught to smile.
Ben Stiller was an embarassment and so was the pathetic attempt to try to make a bunch of stars appear to be regular, silly people in the Stayin’ Alive video. Nothing more than eye candy, and annoying eye candy at that.
Finally, I hate to be so shallow, but this IS American IDOL, after all…at any rate, Kelly Clarkson didn’t look so good. Maybe she’s pregnant? I hope so, because she hasn’t taken very good care of herself otherwise.
Now somebody go apologize to Jordin for throwing her under the bus in front of the largest TV viewing audience in the world. She’s only 17. Gosh!
By Jim
April 26, 2007 10:24 AM | Link to this
What they did to Jordin was very tacky. Not good. Come on Idol, what were you thinking, she’s only 17.
By Lea
April 26, 2007 10:25 AM | Link to this
So Very Mean is correct. And yes we screamed at the tv, it isn’t that we dislike Chris as a person, it’s that every single song he sings sounds exactly the same. We look forward to his leaving.
I should have know that my very sensitive youngest child should not have been allowed to see this show. He is only 8 and it took me 30 minutes to calm his crying after seeing the appalling conditions in which these children live, he wanted to send his piggy bank money, he wanted to buy mosquito nets for them. He cried and cried especially when he heard the man say he had been to some 290 funerals, I think it was. I had to hold him until he fell asleep promising that we would help. He is not the only one who cried, I went to bed and did the same for fear that my child, like me, would worry about things like this every day of his life. It is these shows that people see and are concerned yet the next day they go back to their lives. People such as my family think of all the people of the world who are hurting daily, we try to make a difference. If more people would do the same we wouldn’t need shows like this. However, it is an excellent cause, we simply wish they would have taken Native American reservation populations into consideration as well. My grandfather was half Native American and my son wanted to know where were the pictures of his family that needed help, well, where were they?
By gdub
April 26, 2007 12:45 PM | Link to this
For anyone who believes the theory that the producers want Jordin to win, the ending just verifies that for them. Having it look like she was in the bottom 2 will just drive them to hit redial that many more times next week.
By Peter
April 26, 2007 3:34 PM | Link to this
I think it was totally hilarious what they did to Jordin and that crying was so fake. Becoming an Idol does require alittle acting on their behalf.