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Kaitlyn Epperly, Todrick Hall, Alex Lamber and Lilly Scott were voted out this week.  Everyone seems to pretty much be in an uproar over this.  Let me make a suggestion, if you don’t want to see your favs leave, you got to pick up the phone and vote for them as many times as you can.

You got the worsters out there voting for Paige and Tim so if you want to see your singer make it, you gotta make the call. 

I actually felt bad for Alex Lambert and usually I get annoyed when people cry on stage like that but he is so young and did a better job than several of the guys still in the competition.

Oh well, it’s time to move on to the TOP 12.  The contestants are singing The Rolling Stones so let’s cross our fingers and hope we have a couple of outstanding performances.

Last night on American Idol, judge Simon Cowell remarked that he’d like to see co-judge Randy Jackson in a bikini. We were creeped out, but apparently Randy wasn’t because here he is in his best bikini bottom.

Hmm, I bet Ellen might have another banana joke for this one…

Hat tip to reader Corri for the pic!

After another boring performance from the contestants this week we will see who makes up the Top 12.  I’m really tired of hearing the same slow ballads from week to week.  I’m like Killer K, bring on some rock!

 American Idol 2010 should be called the year of the judges because that is where all the focus lies.  The singers need to get it together or the judges will continue to steal their thunder as the weeks go by.

Simon’s mind seems to be elsewhere as his heart is not into the show anymore.  Perhaps it’s his impending engagement or his new opportunity with the X Factor but he is lacking in his usual tirade of abuse. 

Can Kara get anymore annoying with her incessant need to act like Paula Abdul?  Now she is faking the tears?  Come on Kara, I used to agree the most with your feedback but I can’t stand watching you fall all over Simon.  It really is quite disgusting.

Randy and Ellen are both pretty much worthless as they repeat the same things over and over.  I’m thinking Idol needs to wipe the slate clean and start over next season with a whole new panel.  Perhaps that would create the fresh start they so desperately need with the coming absence of Simon.

Be sure to tune in tonight and see if your favs have made it into the finals and you can always join us at americanidolnet.com as we discuss it all live in the chat room.

I managed to sit through the hour and a half premiere of cycle 14 of ANTM.  I used to watch this with my daughter when she was like 10 and after tonight I felt like I was back in 7th grade. 

The cattiness began from the start when the Top 32 arrive in L A and immediately the screaming begins.  The girls look at the wall and there is Tyra with a MYFIERCE page.  (Really??)  Can we get anymore cheesey than that?  Of course we can.  When Tyra walks out in person the girls go to freaking out and one literally falls on the floor.  I mean you would think Tyra was some Greek goddess reincarnated. 

The first hour is the interviews with the girls in front of Tyra, Jay and Ms J.  We learn two of the girls both got pregnant after having sex one time (seriously?).  All the girls have some kind of crazy back story and it gets a little fuzzy after listening for a while.  The top 13 are chosen except we find out from Tyra that she and the J’s didn’t agree so there will only be 12 and they are:

Brenda Arens, Raina Hein, Tatianna Kern, Gabrielle Kniery, Simone Lewis, Jessica Michel, Anslee Payne-Franklin, Naduah Rugley, Alasia Tiggs, Alexandra Underwood, Angelea and Krista.

Angelea is by far the most outspoken of the girls is going to be the one to start the cat fights and crap this season. 

When the girls arrive in NY, Perez Hilton is waiting for them and they all go to a wax museum where Tyra is waiting with a surprise 13th girl.  Her name is Ren Vokes and she is kind of edgy with tattoos.  She seems cool. 

The girls go straight from the museum to Sally Hershberger’s salon and get their makeovers.  This was by far the best part of the episode.  We have two girls breakdown because they are cutting their long hair off and I found it pretty humorous.  I guess I would be upset too because has any previous winners of the show actually hit it big time with modeling?  I can’t think of any.

The girls are starting to look more like models and have the attitudes to go along with them.

Next week the girls have their first photo shoot and they will be nude so let the fights begin!

Tyra Banks is back with a whole new cast of aspiring models on America’s Next Top Model.  Check out the top 13 girls in the promo.