American Idol eliminated another contestant last night – with the bottom three consisting of some surprising names.

The show began with the contestants having a cake fight in their shared house, leaving their kitchen completely destroyed. Host Ryan Seacrest asks the group who was responsible for starting the mess, with the blame left at Danny Gokey. Seacrest then hands him an envelope containing a bill for $6,000 for the maid service that had to clean up the mess, before Gokey replies, “You don’t think American Idol can pay for this, with all the money they make?”

The fun soon disappears when the results are announced. Seacrest asks Matt Giraud and Kris Allen to stand on one side of the stage, and Allison Iraheta and Danny Gokey to stand on the other, before asking hotly tipped series favourite Adam Lambert which side he thinks he should be on. As Adam decides that he should be with Allison and Danny, Seacrest pulls him back and tells him to stand with Matt and Kris, with the three of them receiving the fewest votes on the night.

The drama continued as Kris was declared to be safe – leaving Adam and Matt in the bottom two to sweat it out.

Seacrest then ribs Simon about how Kara DioGuardi and Randy Jackson were better at judging than him this week, and made all the right calls, whereas [Simon] made the wrong ones. Cowell admits to defeat, saying “Well, one week out of twelve isn’t bad”.

The result is finally revealed at the end of the show with Adam revealed as being safe – with Matt becoming the next contestant to be eliminated. Giraud said on his elimination: “I’ll definitely remember being the cat with nine lives. This is definitely not the last time you’ll see me.”

The show also featured performances from this week’s celebrity mentor Jamie Foxx, as well as Taylor Hicks, who was crowned winner of series five.

Next week’s theme will be rock and roll week, with Guns ‘N’ Roses guitarist Slash confirmed to be next week’s celebrity mentor.

Watch the full episode on Friday 1 May, 9pm, ITV2

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American Idol contestants Matt Giraud and Allison Iraheta have vowed to stay humble despite their new found celebrity status.

Giraud told KSFM-TV: “I don’t think any of us really think that we’re celebrities or anything like that. That’s why we still feel honoured to be at the premieres and for people to want our autographs.

“If I meet someone who’s like, ‘I voted for two hours’, that’s amazing to me and I’m like, ‘Really? I don’t even know you!’ It’s amazing to me.

“So we’re just trying to stay humble and I think that when we get out of this bubble we might be a little shocked about how much we’ve affected the world a little bit.”

Giraud’s fellow contestant Allison Iraheta added:

“Thinking about getting off the show and being in the real world again, people are actually going to know us,” she explained. “I’m not used to it. I’m always going to be humble about it like Matt said and just be glad that I made it this far. I’m happy that I’ve had the opportunity to be here.”

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The American Idol judges have used their one-off veto to saved Matt Giraud from elimination. Giraud, who had sung Bryan Adams’ movie soundtrack ‘Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman’ was voted off by the viewers but survived for another week thanks to the judges exercising their once-in-a-season veto.

Simon Cowell said: “We’ve come to a decision. Matt, it’s good news.” Cowell also warned Giraud’s fellow contestants: “I wouldn’t be so quick to congratulate him.”

Cowell ominously added: “This means two people will be going home next week.”

This new twist was announced several weeks ago and all the judges had to agree on who to save, but could only use their veto as long as there were five or more contestants remaining.

The show also featured the return of former contestant-turned-Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson performing a song from her latest album.

American Idol airs at 8pm this Friday on ITV2

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A lot of last night’s American Idol contenders chose some of Michael Jackson’s more obscure numbers and Matt Giraud was no different. He chose to sing ‘Human Nature’ and whilst he didn’t blow me away in the style of Adam Lambert I would agree with Simon when he called it a “solid performance”.

Judges comments:

Randy – “You’ve got that Justin Timberlake thing jumping off.” (?)
Kara – “I hope I see you for many, many weeks.”
Paula – “I’m blown away.”
Simon – “It was very good, solid.”

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American Idol finalist Matt Giraud has revealed that he will be ignoring Simon Cowells recent fashion advice.

Speaking to reporters after the conclusion of last weeks wild card show, Giraud explained: “I don’t know why he’s always hating on me! You know what, I trusted the wardrobe people with that one, they said just go for it.

“Who takes fashion advice from Simon anyway? Come on, really.”

Giraud also confirmed that he may play piano in future performances on the show.

“I’m gonna take a chance if I can, but I’m not going to be back there every time,” he confirmed. “I definitely want to try to get out there and work the crowd a little bit, too. Maybe I’ll do the keyboard for the first half of the song and then stand up and rock it out for the second half. Who knows?”

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Yes you read the title right! Last night the American Idol judges twisted proceedings a little and at the end of the wild card round announced that this year, they were actually going to allow thirteen contestants through to the live finals rather than the usual twelve.

Anoop Desai, Jasmine Murray, Megan Corkrey and Matt Giraud will now join Jorge Nunez, Scott MacIntyre, Lil Rounds, Kris Allen, Adam Lambert, Allison Iraheta, Danny Gokey, Alexis Grace and Michael Sarver in next weeks first live show in the full size American Idol studio.

I think last night’s choice were all quite predictable and doubt that the judges made their decision on the spot. Each person who got through was definitely amongst the favourites in their original group and each has a massive fanbase out there in the real world, especially Anoop it would seem. Simon claimed that the decision to make the numbers up to thirteen was semi spontaneous, but I think it might just be the ‘shocker’ talked about by Fox execs at the beginning of the season.

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Last night on American Idol Simon Cowell continued his torrent of unsavoury comments for Matt Giraud.

Giraud took on Coldplay’s Viva La Vida and the judges weren’t overly impressed.

“It was verging on a horrible performance,” judge Simon Cowell said. “It wasn’t the fact that the song was so bad, it was how you performed it. … You turned from someone very cool behind a piano singing Ray Charles, into sort of a wannabe pop star in a very jerky and uncomfortable way, and it has really put me off of you.”

Judge Randy Jackson, was more positive saying: “you’re still one of my favorites,” he then told him to stay away from such “simple songs.”

Watch American Idol Thursday 26 February, 8pm and 10pm, ITV2

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