ITV2 have snatched the chance to air the new American version of I’m A Celebrity.
Myleene Klass is presenting the show whilst stars like Janice Dickinson and American Idol’s Sanjaya Malakar will be living in the jungle camp.
The US show starts on Monday — and is set to be shown a week later in the UK.
Former American Idol contestant Clay Aiken has admitted that he didn’t think much of this year’s runner up Adam Lambert.
Now I don’t pay $29.95 a year to read the ramblings of Mr Aiken but some of you do and thanks for emailing me the following quote from his blog. He said:
I couldn’t be happier with the way AI ended this year. I only turn the show on once a season and only to see what the set looks like. This year, I happened to turn it on during the minute that Adam Lambert was singing “Ring of Fire,” and, at that moment, thought my ears would bleed. Contrived, awful, and slightly frightening! I wasn’t really a fan and found myself surprised whenever folks told me that they liked him.
After 620 million votes, 100,000 auditions, a new judge and a bikini girl, Kris Allen has snatched this years American Idol title. This shock result occurred despite Simon Cowell predicting that Adam Lambert would steal the crown.
In the final showdown each contestant had to sing three songs, their own favourite, a choice from Simon Fuller, and the winner’s single ‘No Boundaries’. On the results show the pair took part in collaborations with Keith Urban and Kiss, I’m sure you can guess who sang with who and they ended with a duet of the Queen classic, ‘We Are The Champions’.
Kris Allen and Adam Lambert have made it through to next week’s final of American Idol, Danny Gokey was eliminated last night.
Listening to the three semi-finalists performance on Youtube I am not at all surprised that Kris got through. He performed Heartless by Kanye West, but he wiped the floor with Kanye’s own performance on the show a few weeks ago. Adam did an amazing job with U2’s One but Danny Gokey definitely underwhelmed with his chosen track, ‘Dance Little Sister.’
Judge Simon Cowell told the contestants: “Look, none of us would have predicted this, guys.” I find that a strange statement given that Simon predicted that Adam would win just a few days ago.
So who are you backing to win next week? Have a listen to last night’s performances and leave your comments below.
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Simon Cowell has predicted that Adam Lambert will win this season of American Idol.
“I would have to put my money on Adam right now,” he told Oprah Winfrey on the Monday edition of her talk show.
“I think he’s got that ‘it’. I think he’s fearless and I think he’s unique. And he’s got swagger.”
Here’s hoping that Simon’s got it right this time, as Adam is by far the best singer and performer left on the show. He is the most memorable and charismatic person to appear on the show in years, but it isn’t a great sign that he ended up in the bottom two just a few weeks ago.
In this week’s ‘Ant and Dec’s They Think It’s All A Wheel of Buzzcocks and Possibly the Countdown to the Question of Who Wants to be the Weakest Link?’ on Britain’s Got More Talent (Saturday, ITV2), Declan Donnelly
reveals that he knows all the words to MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice songs.. and then proves it with a mini performance…..
BRITAIN’S GOT MORE TALENT – ITV2 – SATURDAY – 9.15PM
I love a bit of Danny and tonight he just didn’t disappoint. Danny doesn’t have the edge that Allison and Adam do but he made a great stab at rock week with Aerosmith’s ‘Dream On.’
Randy thought it was just alright, Kara thought he took the swagger too far, Paula gave him an A+ for effort and Simon towed the Randy, Kara line.
I liked it, though it certainly wasn’t the strongest performance of the night. But Danny showed that he could be versatile and try new things and for that surely he deserves some credit?
Kris Allen is a grower. For me he was a bit of a non runner during the early weeks of American Idol but since the halfway mark he has really stood out from the crowd and impressed me with his versatile performances.
Allison Iraheta was made for rock week and who would believe that the little diva is only 17 years old? She belted out the Janis Joplin classic ‘Cry Baby’ as if she had the life experience of a 40 year old and her vocals were truly amazing.
Randy didn’t love the song choice, Kara would have preferred Break Another Little Piece Of My Heart, I think they’re deaf. I was loving Allison’s performance tonight.
I am a bit of a closet Led Zep fan and loved Adam’s song choice of Whole Lotta Love tonight. It is hard to believe that it was the first time that a Zeppelin song had been performed on American Idol. The song could have been written for Adam and it was 100% perfect for his voice.
I agreed with Kara’s comments when she called Adam a rock God and with Simon when he said that it was one of Adam’s best performances to date. He’s gotta win this year doesn’t he?
Kara DioGuardi has admitted that she isn’t sure about returning as a judge to American idol next year, saying she only ever intended to do one season.
“That’s what we’ve discussed. So we’ll see what happens. Hopefully they’ll keep me on,” she told TV Guide.
However when asked if DioGuardi would be returning next season, Simon Cowell said that he “would imagine so”.
I LOVE Adam Lambert and would like to see him win American Idol, however this week his performance just wasn’t up to par for me.
Danny Gokey hasn’t had a bad week yet and it looks like this week isn’t going to be his weak one. Out of all the contestants Danny looks most comfortable with this genre and most suited to the vocal style.
Kris won some high praise from Jamie Fox during his American Idol mentoring session, so big things were expected from his performance this week.
I love ‘The Way You Look Tonight’ and can’t hear it without thinking of Julia Roberts lusting after her Best Friend, however I wasn’t digging Kris’s version at all. It was distinctly boring with a strange fast bit thrown into the middle.
The judges loved it but it was not my cup of tea at all.
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford were the names on the lips of American Idol’s final five contestants as they performed on this week’s Rat Pack-themed show – with actor and singer Jamie Foxx as this week’s celebrity mentor.
Kris Allen was first to perform, singing The Way You Look Tonight, impressing Randy Jackson, who called it his best performance to date whilst Kara DioGaurdi and Paula Abdul swooned, with Abdul telling him that he had turned from gone from the “adorable boy next door to the ever-so-handsome sophisticated gentleman.” Simon Cowell took a different view, however, calling his performance “a little bit wet” and “not that incredible”. Allen is now a top choice to reach the final, after it was revealed he was the surprise second most downloaded artist on iTunes, from this year’s line-up, behind Adam Lambert, with Danny Gokey widely thought to be Lambert’s nearest competitor.
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