We thought it was fair of Simon to ask American Idol auditionee Nicci Nix if she had been sucking on helium before she sang tonight, because we have never ever heard anyone with such a strange speaking voice.

Thankfully her singing voice wasn’t as bad, but we didn’t rate it much either and her choice of song was strange given that Girls Aloud are so poorly known in America. She clearly has confidence in herself though, because she flew 14 hours from Florence, Italy through Frankfort, Germany to get there and she got four yeses from the judges, along with compliments about her look, her attitude, and her vocals.

News just in, one of our readers commented on our latest American Idol recap post saying:

Nikki is from northern California, not Italy. Found it quite funny that she faked the accent and made up the cover story. Girl has been on two MTV reality shows already. Fame whore!