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American Idol Season 11 Episode 10

Hollywood week began in American Idol Season 11 Episode 9, complete without any actual singing. Preparations complete, they are ready to perform during a 2 hour episode. I’d be fine with 1 hour.

Jennifer Malsch, Cherie Tucker, Cari Quoyeser, Gabrielle Cavassa, and Brianna Bell take the stage first. Their performance is about as rough as their rehearsal was. Jennifer and Cari survive the cuts, as Cherie blames the Idol bug.

Reed Grimm, Nick Boddington, Creighton Fraker, Aaron Marcellus, and Jen Hirsh escaped both the drama and the sickness of the night before. Their reward is that they all advance, following a standing ovation.

Kyle Crews, Brielle von Hugel, Joshua Ledet, Shannon Magrane, and some fifth person named Amber get on stage in their group that Brielle and her mother think is all about them. Kyle is the only one of the lot to get cut.

Before they get on stage, Jacquie Cera faints, but she’ll be singing anyway, along with Dustin Cundiff, patient zero Amy Brumfield, and Mathenee Treco. They struggle in general, including some lyric forgetting. Mathenee is the sole survivor.

Crystal Duffield, Jasmine Antoine, and the rest of their group continue the trainwreck. They are not alone in being completely unable to remember the words.

Christian Lopez, Alisha Bernhardt, Samantha Novacek, and the other girls and that guy have the audience yawning. They are all eliminated. Perhaps they should have sung Joy to the World like the angry cop wanted.

Ariel Sprague, Eben Franckewitz, Gabi Carrubba, David Leathers Jr., and Jeremy Rosado deliver a solid performance, and they are all safe.

Imani Handy joins the growing chorus of fainters, but she crawls her way on stage to perform with Bryce Garcia, Johnny Keyser, and Kristi Krause. This rough performance concludes with an unsurprising collapse by somebody who’s already fallen twice. Johnny survives the carnage.

We now head to the not OK Corral with a battle of cowboy against everybody. Heejun Han, Jairon Jackson, Richie Law, and Phillip Phillips pull together in spite of their differences, and they live to fight another day, though it’s primarily based on their previous performances.

With group night over, those who survived will sing one last time before the results are revealed.

Joshua Ledet had to be badgered into sticking around. His oversinging of Christina Perri’s Jar of Hearts receives a good reaction. Colton Dixon, who also had to be badgered into auditioning let alone sticking around, and he sings Daughtry’s What about Now while playing keyboard. Phil Phillips continues the positive momentum.

Jen Hirsh follows with a standing ovation for her performance of Georgia on my Mind, her second of the episode. Creighton Fraker continues this with What a Wonderful World. Having been in Jen’s group earlier, he, too, sees his second standing ovation. Shannon Magrane also thinks it’s a wonderful world, receiving the same reaction.

Reed Grimm is informed 30 minutes before going on stage that he cannot sing a cappella as planned. This is stupid that they could not have told him this earlier. Thanks for the fake drama, Nigel. He spends most of his time dancing around his troubles rather than preparing, but he decides at the last minute to play the drums. Seemingly out of nowhere, he pulls together a strong performance.

Skylar Laine is out of the hospital. Wouldn’t know based on that she’s been sick. Steven says that’s one of the best performances of the day, and Jennifer is reminded of Reba. Fellow country singer Rachelle Lamb messes up, so she starts over, delivering a convincing performance on her second attempt.

New father Adam Brock says he brings white chocolate to the stage.

Performances done, they are divided into four rooms.

Room 1 gets their results first. They are through to the next round. This room includes Jermaine Jones, Lauren Gray, Adam Brock, Joshua Ledet, Creighton Fraker, Jen Hirsh, Erika van Pelt, Hallie Day, and Johnny Keyser.

Room 2 also makes it. In that room are Reed Grimm, Phil Phillips, Skylar Laine, Shannon Magrane, Eben Franckewitz, and Jessica Phillips.

A tense and fighting room 3 is up next. They have been eliminated, with casualties including Brittany Kerr, Jennifer Malsch, and Rachelle Lamb.

Lastly, room 4 is also advancing. Bailey Brown, Gabi Carrubba, Heejun Han, Angie Zeiderman, and Britnee Kellogg are among those heading to Vegas.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of American Idol Season 11 Episode 11, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on Fox.

Survivor: One World Episode 1

18 new contestants form the Survivor: One World cast, without any recongizeable faces amongst them for a change (not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing). It’s a battle of men against women, all living on the same beach.

Kourtney doesn’t think she fits in just looking. Colton makes an extra effort to let the world know he’s gay. Greg wants to be called Tarzan. Tarzan, meet Troyzan.

They are divided into two tribes at the starting beach. The men are Manono (orange); the women are Salani (blue). Then they have 60 seconds to strip the truck and grab whatever items they can carry. Rather than work for anything, Michael just steals from the women, who are not paying attention to what they grab. Hidden immunity idols are in play. Because they beat it to death and completely ruined the twist last year with Ozzy, Redemption is dead. Finally.

Wanting to prove they’re big and macho, the men go nuts and try to carry half the truck back to camp with them. On the other hand, the division by sexes becomes apparent looking at what the women are carrying.

Alicia has already decided on her final 5 of herself, Kim, Kat, Sabrina, and Chelsea. So Kim just found out she’s in an alliance. Uh, yeah, I guess I’ll join you guys.

They spot some chickens when they get to camp, and they make a deal to each take one. After country girl Chelsea catches them with ease, now she wants to bargain. Attorney Matt is ready to sue someone.

There is much activity in shelter building. People from both tribes scurry about to get settled for the night. Then there’s Colton, sitting on the sidelines spectating. After doing that for a while, he decides to start openly playing the girl power game, making it blatantly obvious where his loyalties lie, or at least don’t lie.

Matt, Mike, Jay, and Bill have formed the game’s second alliance. This is the alliance of the young, fit guys. A threat to the other guys for sure, but is anyone really dumb enough to vote them out?

Memo to future Survivors: don’t wear jeans. Unless you enjoy chafing.

The men get a fire going quickly, a rarity in Survivor. Sabrina has been sent as the agent to make a deal. They can have their chicken back in exchange for fire. I don’t see anyone being dumb enough to fall that. Failing to charm their way into fire, the girls sneak over and steal some fire that the boys leave unguarded as they sleep. Nice plan. But the fire doesn’t last. The next morning, Kristina manages to make a deal to weave some palm fronds for them so they can have fire. Alicia’s response: she wants to punch her in her face.

Sabrina finds a hidden immunity idol in the second place she looks. I see they’re getting better at hiding things. However, this is a Manono tribe idol. That means that, as a non-Manono tribe member, she must give it to someone on the other tribe. She goes to the guy who’s been begging for his only possible saving grace, Colton.

At the immunity challenge, they jump off a tower and cross a balance beam and a rope bridge. We’re starting off just like the last girls against guys season (Amazon), where the men were humiliated in an early balancing challenge (before the women started to fall apart). The men take the lead on the tower diving, where the main concern seems to be the obvious threat of injury. Unsurprisingly, Kourtney has injured her wrist, which makes her a liability and an easy first target. As she sits down during the challenge, Probst calls for medical. They will be hauling her off for an X-ray. Without 9 people to cross the finish line, the women have lost. Do the men want to make a gesture of goodwill (aka stupidity) and keep going anyway? No.

The women act all shocked and surprised that the men didn’t take Jeff’s bait. As if they would have had the shoe been on the other foot. Their bone to pick: the guys should have been chivalrous and handed the game to them. Really? Woman up.

At tribal council, Alicia is whining about the fact that they have fire, and Kristina tells her to shut up. Hey, we were all thinking it. This brings us to a point. There is no structure, and everybody is just doing whatever comes into their minds.

Now an update on Kourtney. Her wrist is broken, and she is out of the game. Nobody else is going home tonight.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: One World Episode 2, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 7

In a predictable turn of events in The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 6, Adrian was eliminated.

Conda defends their actions. Percentagewise, Adrian was at the bottom. (Except for the 3 people who did worse than him.)

Bob and Dolvett will pick one person each to be sent home. That person’s weight is the only weight that will count this week, and Bob and Dolvett will be going with them. Dolvett chooses Conda; Bob chooses Daphne. Thus we get the Conda vs. Daphne showdown that the producers wanted at the top of the show when we got a cat fight. Let the obnoxiousness continue. Bob realizes that Daphne has a point to prove, which he hopes will push her to victory. Though their weights won’t count, the rest of the teams are competing for a 1 pound advantage for their teammates.

Chris is upset. She needed Bob. Apparently, that takes precedence over the other six people who also need him, which is his fault. So now, she has been betrayed.

Dolvett gets some insight into why Conda’s a bitch. She is angry with her father after her parents’ divorce.

Without a trainer to push them, Roy shows up late for the workout. His excuse is his age. The good news for the red team is that they already had to do this last week, and they proved they could put up decent numbers on their own. The black team, however, doesn’t seem capable of committing themselves to the concept of a Bob-free week. They reluctantly create a workout routine that they get through with a minimum of energy expended.

The prize for the challenge is Valentine’s letters from home. More importantly, they receive a 1 pound advantage, which for 1 person at this stage of the game can potentially be a big deal. They will have to dig under each of three logs so they can get everyone on their team (plus a dummy) to the finish line. Emily opts to sit out for the black team because nobody else (such as the biggest guy, Jeremy) wants to. Black team manages to shove Cassandra through the first log first. That lead quickly evaporates, and things won’t be getting any better when Jeremy and Chism have to get through. Red team starts on the second log first. They retain their lead through the third log. In a challenge that was over before it started, red team wins.

For her last chance workout, Conda will workout with a girls’ basketball team. Bob’s surprise for Daphne is stair climbing, 103 floors in under an hour.

Chris: 201 pounds (-5, 2.43%)
Jeremy: 320 pounds (-6, 1.84%)
Emily: 218 pounds (-5, 2.24%)
Megan: 219 pounds (-4, 1.79%)
Cassandra: 189 pounds (-6, 3.08%)
Chism: 298 pounds (-7, 2.30%)
Black Total: 1445 pounds (-33, 2.23%)

Kimmy: 184 pounds (-4, 2.13%)
Buddy: 329 pounds (-7, 2.08%)
Roy: 252 pounds (-9, 3.45%)
Kim: 200 pounds (-9, 4.31%)
Mark: 234 pounds (-10, 4.10%)
Red Total: 1199 pounds (-39, 3.15%)

With red team’s easy win, Conda adds a second pound to her existing advantage.

Daphne: 224 pounds (-12, 5.08%)
Conda: 245 pounds (-10, -2, 4.71%)

Both women put up big numbers, but in spite of the 2 pound weight advantage, Conda misses by 1 pound. Bob made a smart play, choosing the person who had a personal vendetta to settle. Removing the 2 pound advantage puts Kim at the top of the leaderboard for the losing team, giving her immunity for the week.

Votes
Kim: Roy
Mark: Roy
Kimmy: Roy
Roy: Kimmy
Conda: Roy

9 pounds is apparently not good enough. The team says he is not committed, and with 4 votes, Roy is not The Biggest Loser. From his starting weight of 306 pounds, he is down to 230 pounds today, and back at work at the North Pole.

Stay tuned to dinguRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 8, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

American Idol Season 11 Episode 9

The first night of Hollywood in American Idol Season 11 Episode 8 had some good singing, some bad singing, and finally concluded with someone falling off the stage. So I’ve heard.

Wanting to preserve the drama for tonight, they opted to make last night’s fall a to be continued. We pick up with Symone Black regaining consciousness and receiving medical attention. After getting a bit of sugar, she stands up and heads off to the hospital.

From there, we pick up with the results. Jeremy Rosado advances to the next round, but Lauren Mink and Ethan Jones have been cut.

That brings us to group night with the 185 contestants who remain. They must combine into groups of 4 or 5 with a mixture from day 1 and day 2. People are shocked by this stunning turn of events (the one that happens every year).

Crying and ready to pass out, Amy Brumfield wonders why she is struggling to find a group. She finds a cop telling people to get their asses over there and form a group with her. Refusing to change songs, policewoman Alicia loses her group. She just wants to sing a damn song. Joy to the World. Eventually, she finds a girl whose father is a cop and forms a group with her and some guy who’s afraid of her.

Brielle von Hugel’s mom says she’s bossy. This could be bad. Not one to let her daughter steal the spotlight, her mom picks apart the others.

Returning from the hospital, Symone needs to find a group. Most groups have formed already, but she manages to find a foursome to join.

Heejun has decided that the cowboy he’s working with, whose name (Richie Law) he doesn’t know, is crazy. Well, it’s war then. Now he hates all cowboys, even Dallas Cowboys.

Meanwhile, people continue to drop like flies. Somebody arrived sick and has been spreading it to everybody else, in addition to the girl who fainted and the kid with kidney stones.

Following a night of practice and drama, they’re ready for the performances.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of American Idol Season 11 Episode 10, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on Fox.

American Idol Season 11 Episode 8

Rounding out the auditions in American Idol Season 11 Episode 7 were Johnny Keyser and Lauren Gray. Now it’s time for the 309 contestants who survived to head to Hollywood.

They will all perform one more time, this time in front of an audience of their peers. In each group of 10, half of them will be cut today.

Johnny Keeser is full of confidence and not at all nervous. Heejun Han, however, is exactly the opposite, telling his mother to not bother packing much for the trip, and trying to figure out how he can stick around with these guys all being so pretty. They both survive.

Elise Testone, Baylie Brown, and Hallie Day make the cut.

Jen Hirsh overcomes her nerves with an excellent performance of Up to the Mountain. Lauren Gray follows with another good performance.

Heather Youmans, Sascha Julian, and Candice Russell, whoever they are, fail to impress.

Phil Phillips has never flown before, at least not on a real plane. This time he’ll have to perform without his guitar. Reed Grimm has been on stage since he was 2, so this is home to him. Travis Orlando was sent home in Hollywood last year after round 1. Phil and Reed make it, but Travis is cut again.

Travis is joined by Ramiro Garcia, Wolf Hamlin, and Jenni Schick. At the end of day 1, 68 people are gone.

Adam Brock has been told there is a large black woman trapped inside him. Jane Carrey lives in shadow of famous father Jim Carrey. Adam makes it, but Jane does not.

Shannon Magrane is the one who Steven commented, to her father, is hot, humid, and happening. David is the obnoxious guy who thinks he’s a player. Jessica Phillips has come to LA with her boyfriend, who recovers from a stroke he had last Easter. They all make it to the next round.

Angie Zeiderman and Brittany Kerr also advance, as do Erika Van Pelt, Creighton Fraker, and Aaron Marcellus.

Lauren Mink has a rough go at it, but Jennifer loves Jeremy Rosado. Jumping ahead from them, though, we head into the conclusion for the night, with a performance by Symone Black. From what I gather, she fell off the stage. Too bad Fox can’t properly program this show any more than they could before, as I for one did not see what happened. 1 hour means 1 hour, Fox. Not 68 minutes.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of American Idol Season 11 Episode 9, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on Fox.

The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 6

The red team lost in The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 5 but were again too stupid to get rid of the anchor that’s weighing them down, Conda, instead opting to eliminate Nancy while berating returnee Darian.

Following the elimination, much bickering continues. This is getting annoying. I am getting a headache.

This week’s excuse: “I can’t lose weight on my own.” The team that loses the challenge this week will lose their trainer for the week. Their trainers will be suspended above a dunk tank. Whoever drops their trainer loses him. Everybody hangs on for 10 minutes. Red team begins to drop first. After 20 minutes, everybody is still in. Then 25 minutes. 30. 35. Kimmy is the first one to let go, and so begins the domino effect. Mark is next. In quick succession, Kim, Conda, and Buddy fall. Adrian and Roy let go last, and Dolvett finds himself all kinds of wet.

Megan trains horses, but she’s too heavy to ride them. One of her ultimate goals in this process is to be able to do rodeos.

In Dolvett’s absence, Kim decides to take control and be the red team’s leader. Although Dolvett may not be able to talk to them, he can still see and monitor what they are doing. He can also hear… Conda whining.

In her second week on campus, Daphne finds herself lagging behind the others, worrying that it will be seen as a weakness. Unlike her brother, though, she does not seem to be the obvious target. For that matter, I’m not sure there are any targets on the black team, whereas the red team is looking for their next victim. Of course, if they do go to elimination, she would be an easy person to go after.

They head to a restaurant for an ordering lesson with Rachael Ray. Rattling off the dishes they would have eaten before coming to the ranch, they easily run their meals up over 3000 calories for just one meal, with food choices such as pasta, fries, and multiple desserts. Then the lesson begins and they learn they can eat out but still eat healthy, with such simple changes as dressing on the side and asking for the food to be prepared without oil.

Dolvett returns for last chance workout. He thanks Kim for taking over the leadership role. Now for the bad news. He views them as a team divided. Conda spent so much time complaining about Adrian. For that matter, there are a lot of things she complained about. He brought a list. That said, Adrian’s biggest obstacle is that he doesn’t listen to anybody.

Conda: 255 pounds (8, 3.04%)
Kim: 209 pounds (-6, 2.79%)
Roy: 261 pounds (-7, 2.61%)
Kimmy: 188 pounds (-5, 2.59%)
Mark: 244 pounds (-7, 2.79%)
Buddy: 336 pounds (-9, 2.61%)
Adrian: 325 pounds (-9, 2.69%)
Red Total: 1818 pounds (-51, 2.73%)

Mark expected more from Adrian than he delivered. After all, Mark beat him by 0.10%. If you’re gonna pick on someone for no reason, at least just admit why you’re doing it. No need to dance around the team’s personal dislike for him.

Daphne: 236 pounds (-8, 3.28%)
Cassandra: 195 pounds (-5, 2.50%)
Chris: 206 pounds (-5, 2.37%)
Megan: 223 pounds (-6, 2.62%)
Emily: 223 pounds (-7, 3.04%)
Jeremy: 326 pounds (-12, 3.55%)
Chism: 305 pounds (-13, 4.09%)
Black Total: 1714 pounds (-56, 3.16%)

Black team wins again as it continues to operate as a unit. On the other hand, the red team loses again. As the person with the highest percentage of weight loss on her team, Conda is safe. Do we even need to sit through the formality of a vote? Everybody knows what’s going to happen here.

Votes
Roy: Mark
Kim: Adrian
Conda: Adrian
Adrian: Mark
Mark: Adrian
Buddy: Adrian

Hopefully this means an end to the bickering, but I doubt it. If nothing else, at least Adrian is done running his mouth. He never had a chance with these women, but still he could have handled it differently. With 4 votes, Adrian is not The Biggest Loser. He dismisses himself from the table and asks that everybody avoid his sister.

Stay tuned to dinguRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 13 Episode 7, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

American Idol Season 11 Episode 7

A pair of Britneys, Brittany Zika and Britnee Kellogg made their appearance in American Idol Season 11 Episode 6. Tonight the auditions go to St. Louis, the city where Carrie Underwood, perhaps the most successful American Idol alum, got her start.

Johnny Keyser looks like a star, and his performance of A Change Is Gonna Come backs it up.

Now that she’s getting a divorce, Rachelle Lamb has decided to sing. Her appropropriate song choice is Find Somebody New. She’s going to Hollywood.

Reis Kloeckener thought about dropping out of school after being bullied, but he accidentally stumbled his way into choir, which turned it around for him. Steven says that was so beautiful it made him cry.

Ethan Jones dropped out of school to be in a band with his dad, who has since departed from the band to go to rehab. He’s headed to Hollywood.

Mark Ingram works there. Right there. He’s a hotel auditor, and probably just there on his lunch break. The hotel staff says he sings every day, and he probably does. Badly.

Lauren Gray is in the family business, a one stop wedding shop, complete with wedding band. Her powerful voice has the judges saying wow.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of American Idol Season 11 Episode 8, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on Fox.

American Idol Season 11 Episode 6

A more mature Baylie Brown returned in American Idol Season 11 Episode 5. Next stop: Portland, Oregon. Where all the best singers are from.

Brittany Zika tells us of her dream of singing a duet with Sara Bareilles. Jennifer says she has one of the prettiest voices they have heard.

Ben Purdom tells us he’s not feeling that great today, and he’s been sick since Tuesday. At least he has his excuses ready for when they say no. Nothing at all to do with his bad singing of a Lady GaGa song.

6’8.5″ Jermaine Jones is a church singer and has been pretty much since he was a zygote. Good enough voice to go to Hollywood.

Britnee Kellogg (seriously, parents of America, how many different ways can you spell Britney?) arrives with a dozen people all in matching T-shirts. She pursued her ex-husband’s basketball dreams with him instead of singing, then he decided to go pursue other women instead. The judges love her voice and her story.

Sam Gershman sings I’m a Woman, about which Steven had no doubt. If she hadn’t identified the song, nobody would have known. Steven thinks it’s a little too Broadway, in spite of the perkiness of her… personality.

David Weed fails at singing. He then fails at his second dream, stand up comedy.

Romeo Diahn went from war torn Liberia to a refugee camp in Ghana before making his way to the US. Jennifer loves his vibe and flavor, but she’s worried where he’ll fit in. She gives him a little tiny yes because he’s different. He won’t be getting Seacrest’s vote, though, as his family doesn’t know who Ryan is. They stand there wondering why he’s talking to them.

Naomi Gillies sings Aerosmith’s Cryin’. Not a fan of her high notes, but she’s going to Hollywood.

Ben Harrison fancies himself adorable. He’s just happy that no bodily fluids exited him during this confusing audition.

Jessica Phillips’ boyfriend had a stroke last year, ending up struggling to even communicate any more. Her performance of Again by Faith Evans impresses the judges.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of American Idol Season 11 Episode 7, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on Fox.