Reality Ravings

Chris Isaak when on the couch with the Australian Idol was castigating them for using the phrase ball's up on national TV, clearly he had missed Mark Spano mouthing the F Bomb earlier when he realised Wes Carr was in the bottom two.

Luke Dickens and Mark Spano must have thought it was their lucky day when Wes landed into the bottom two for the first time. Was this going to be the biggest shock of this season?

Unfortunately for Mark and Luke, no, it was Teale Jakubenko who was gone.

Worst moment of the show when Kyle Sandilands while promoting a MacDonald's fundraising day, said if Chrislynn was still there they could have had a Big Mac eating competition together. It was tasteless and James Mathison looked absolutely disgusted.

Highlight of the show Chris Isaak - best mentor in all season's of Idol.

Farmer Rob To Marry Jo - Two Marriages In Two Series - Got To Be Happy.

American Idol will start screening in the US on 13 Jan 2009. Fox 8 will again this season fast track it from the US, which should mean it will be screened Wednesday and Thursday nights here in Oz.

This year American Idol have added an extra judge into the mix. She is a songwriter Kara DioGuardi. Full bio here.

The fourth judge thing did not work on Australian Idol, but they are trying to stop a slide in ratings in the US. Hopefully with the new female, in 2010, Paula Abdul might be gone. But watching Paula be crazy and not talk sense can sometimes be a shows highlight. Remember last year she was late to an audition and then was incomprehensible when she got there?

Maybe American Idol should also choose mentors that are younger then 60. Dolly Parton, Neil Diamond and Andrew Lloyd-Webber as famous do not appeal to the younger audience.

Anyway the good thing about it being fast tracked is that there is no spoilers AND there is something fun to watch when all the Australian channels are showing their crap shows because it is non-ratings season. There is only so much tennis and cricket you can watch.

Can Chris Isaak be a judge on Australian Idol every week? It was like he made the other judges and hosts lift their game, when they realised he was getting all the laughs. Ok I had had my first alcoholic beverage in a fortnight so I did find Kyle Sandilands getting up on stage mildly amusing.

Has anyone else noticed that Marcia when she is giving her opinion has to wiggle her head alot, as there is barely any movement on her face anymore. I did not think it was possible to get botox on top of botox, but I think she has managed it.

Chris Isaak was his gorgeous, witty and enigmatic self. In an interview I once read that he had never been in a long term relationship. I am starting to think his love for Sydney combined with him talking about getting into rings, that the lady killer crooner may not be that interested in the ladies.

Anyway tonight the top four Idol's had to sing songs that had been number one in the USA. This was an obviously timed for last week's Presidential election, and Andrew G let it be clear that he was very happy with Obama winning.

Wes Carr - When You Were Young - The Killers
It was always going to be a let down the next song Wes sung after last week's Michael Jackson masterpiece. But the frenetic pace of the song just irritated me, as did his hair flying everywhere. The highlight his safari suit style top.

Wes Carr "What A Wonderful World" - Louis Armstrong
Wes's strength is his ability to connect or sell a song. He told us that the reason he liked this song was it soothed him after his numerous nightmares as a child. This was a stronger performance, and for the first half of the song it was just Wes and his guitar, but it is not going to get Cadbury's most memorable moment.

Kyle's comment on it looked like a muppet song cracked me up.

Teale Jakubenko - John Mayer - No Such Thing
This week Teale confirmed for me what a tool he is by picking two songs by overrated singers. On that basis alone he deserves to go. Performance non-memorable.

"What Goes Around" - Justin Timberlake.
This song and performance was the equivalent on nails on a chalkboard. It irritated me. This guy is this year's Marty Simpson - it bewilders me how both of these two singers made it to the final four.It is time to go

Mark Spano - Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing - Chris Issak
I was worried about Mark doing this, but it was in fact one of my favourite performances of his. Maybe because I was all Chris Isaak loved up.

"Everybody Hurts" REM
This may win the Cadbury's moment and it was a lovely performance with him just playing guitar onstage and not pacing around.

Luke Dickens - Arms Wide Open - Creed
Firstly Luke looks ten times better with that chin fluff cut off or as Dicko said his merkin. One of Luke's strengths has been song choices over the past few weeks, and tonight I think he blew it with this song. It was so repetative.

"One Of These Crazy Nights" Eagles
Does Luke think his fans are 2WS listeners as that was smack bang in the middle of the road. I hope for his sake that he has enough fans to keep him in as it will either him or Teale going home.

The Amazing Race - Exit Interview With The Two Blondes Marissa and Brooke
Reality TV World has an indepth with Marissa and Brooke who were eliminated from last week's The Amazing Race. It answers all the questions you could possibly want to know - How far behind they were? Why it took them so long to get to the harbour in Auckland? How important taxi's are? And why you don't need a hair straightener on the race.

Review of The So You Think You Can Dance Tour in North America
Reality Dish has a indepth review of the US So You Think You Can Dance Concert in Canada. In fact he thought it was the best concert he had ever been to!

Johnathan and Victoria From The Amazing Race Have a Daughter - Can Someone Call Community Services.

Now regular readers of this column might know I have an unhealthy obsession with Johnathan and Victoria from Season 6 of The Amazing Race. Remember the scene where Johnathan nearly hit Victoria at the pit stop in Berlin? Vile, vile, vile. Anyway they have continued living off their notoriety doing reality TV related stuff, but also they have had a daughter. How many ways are they going to screw that girl up? She is already doing commercials. She is very cute. Go to the Johnathan and Victoria website http://www.jonathanbakerandvictoriafuller.com//

Also MSNBC have an interview from 2005 where Johnathan and Victoria talk about their time on the race. "I never was going to hit her". It is a great read as he tries and justifies his behaviour.

Jessica Mauboy Album Been Waiting To be Released 22 November - Here is a small taste of it.

Cat Deeley Denies Baby Plans.
Poor Cat Deeley she dates a guy for two minutes and she has to deny she is wanting a baby.
Cat Deeley who has snagged herself a toyboy Jack Houston 25. However even though it is going well in Metro after being asked she said she had no plans for babies just yet.