American Idol Season 10 Episode 9

Hollywood week got started in American Idol Season 10 Episode 8. 168 contestants survived the first two days. Tonight we continue with the group performances.

The day 1 contestants, thinking they were so smart, began forming groups immediately after getting through, picked their songs, and started practicing. Seeing this, the producers decide to mix things up. The groups must be a mixture of day 1 and day 2 contestants. I have an idea. Don’t tell them what songs they’re going to sing in groups. Then you won’t have to worry.

Tiffany Rios still has a big head. Nobody wants her in their group. Apparently not realizing what he’s getting himself into and unable to locate a group, Scott McCreery makes the mistake of asking her to be in his group, but he sees all he needs to realize she’s crazy. Somehow, Tiffany manages to grab someone from another group to form one of her own.

Jordan Dorsey takes charge of his group, both insulting them and also refusing to let anyone join until he comes across Shane Golden.

As for the still unestablished groups, they’re left wasting precious time due to the silly mixed day nonsense.

Scotty McCreery finally stumbles upon a group including Jacee Badeaux.

At 11PM, group formation chaos comes to a close. Since Tiffany and her partner can’t find anyone to subject themselves to her, the producers “let it slide” and let them be a twosome because they created this mess to begin with by not doing something so simple as anticipating people may form groups early if you give them the opportunity to do so.

James Durbin is unimpressed by the presence of stage moms that are with some of this season’s younger contestants.

Rob Bolin and Chelsee Oaks formed a group with Nick Fink and Jacqueline Dunford. Then Nick got eliminated, so Jackie plays third wheel to two exes who don’t get along all that well.

Ashley Sullivan returns to the drama. Having cried throughout the season, Ashley’s about ready to have a breakdown. She’s done. Sorry, guys in her group.

Scotty’s staying in his group, but now with another day 2 person, they decide to axe Jacee (or at least Clint Gamboa does). With 1AM approaching, he’s going to have to go elsewhere.

Jordan Dorsey is thinking of leaving his group. I say let him. He’s been a controlling ass anyway. Lauren confronts him and finally gets him to make a decision, and he agrees to leave.

After hours go by, Ashley has finally made a decision to stay. This is going to get old.

Jacee has been wandering around for a while but finally stumbles across a group without a day 2 person just before 3:00. He doesn’t know the song they’re singing, so he’d better get busy learning.

The first group of the day is a trio from New York whose names Seacrest attempts to pronounce: Pia Toscano, Alessandra Guercio, and Brielle von Hugel. Steven says they slammed it. Randy calls them all amazing, and they all made it through.

Jordan Dorsey’s new group is up next. He joins Robbie Rosen and some other people on stage. Jennifer calls it good. They will all go through. Just what we needed, for Jordan to get even more arrogant.

Jordan’s old group follows him. This group includes Adrian Michael and Lauren Turner. They, too, are all through.

Tiffany Rios and Jessica Yantz are the lone duo of the day. Randy stops them before they cause him any more pain. It’s the end of the line for them.

Kevin Campos’ group is about to start performing. Too bad he’s still sleeping. After he wakes up, he joins Jovany Barreto, Jorge Gabriel, and Karen Rodriguez for some singing. Whatever happens, Kevin’s going to have to take this more seriously. Jovany and Karen are advancing, which by Steven’s math is three people.

Then a group of nameless girls gets up to sing to Steven Tyler. They’re a hit with the audience, if only I knew who they were. Lauren is the only one who moves on.

A fivesome of Nashville auditioners has come together, including Colton Dixon and Matt Dillard. Colton is the only one to survive.

Shannon Livewell, Briana Tyson, Janelle Arthur, Alyson Jados, Caitlin Koch, and Paris Tassin get themselves into a bad day montage. Emily Anne Reed, Adrienne Beasley, Courtney Penry, and Aaron Gutierrez have also been eliminated.

Keeira Lyn Ford, Ashley Sullivan, and Ashton Jones are up next. Their group is through to the next round, and Randy says they are the best harmonized group so far.

James Durbin, Emma Henry, Danny Pate, Caleb Johnson, and John Jordan are the first up to sing Somebody to Love. Strong voices but bad harmonies. Caleb and James will be staying.

The next group to sing this song is the youngest group, with moms in tow: Keonna Evans, Jalen Harris, Sarina-Joi Crowe, Felix Ramsay, and Deandre Brackensick. Steven Tyler says this is as good as it gets. Everybody is through to the next round.

Steven Clawson (reading his hand), Corey Levoy, and Hollie Cavanagh have a poor performance, but taking into account their prior performances, Corey and Hollie go through. Corey asks why.

Two groups decide to perform without music, as if that’s really a big handicap considering that’s how they got here to begin with. First up are Dan Noguchi, Lara Johnston, Julie Zorrilla, Melissa Lucas, and Casey Abrams. Julie and Casey advance.

Da’quela (you can’t just stick an apostrophe in a name) Payne, Matthew Nuss, Naima Adedapo, and Jacob Lusk have a much better performance. All move to the next round.

Caleb Hawley, Devyn Rush, Chris Medina, and Carson Higgins are up next. All but Devyn make it.

Denise Jackson, Stevie Cain, Natalie Hanson, Brett Loewenstern, and Jacee Badeaux perform next. Jacee sounds okay but is lost. Nonetheless, the group is advancing.

Jacee’s original group goes next. Scotty McCreery apologizes for not sticking up for him. His group also consists of Monique de los Santos, Frances Coontz, and Clint Jun Gamboa. Although they probably didn’t win any fans for getting rid of Jacee, their performance shows that it may well have been the right decision, and they move to the next round.

The final group of the night is Rob Bolin, Chelsee Oaks, and Jacqueline Dunford in a threesome that the ladies want to dominate, while Rob has no interest in actually being a performer. Rob is a complete disaster. The other two are, well, better than that, good enough to continue while Rob goes home.

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

Survivor: Redemption Island Episode 1

16 new contestants form the Survivor: Redemption Island cast alongside Boston Rob and Russell Hantz. Will Rob win the million in his sixth attempt? (Admittedly, he should have won Survivor: All Stars, although win or lose he still won, and he should have won The Amazing Race 7.) Will Russell win a single vote?

Phillip says he’s a former federal agent. Yeah, the producers ain’t buying it either. Matt says his faith is everything, and his entire life revolves around it. Oh God geez. Surely they will make it so he clashes with someone. I just hope he doesn’t think God cares about who wins this game. Mike believes that his time in Iraq trained him to win something like this. While he may have the survival aspect down, the key is how to avoid the person sleeping next to you stabbing you in the back.

After everyone lands, they are introduced to Rob and Russell. Rob is greeted with applause, but Russell is greeted less warmly, albeit with the knowledge that he’s a contender.

They draw for buffs. Rob is on the Ometepe tribe, and Russell is on Zapatera, so now the tribes will be:

Ometepe (orange): Andrea, Matt, Francesca, Kristina, Grant, Phillip, Natalie, Ashley, Rob
Zapatera (purple): Mike, Ralph, Krista, David, Stephanie, Sarita, Julie, Steve, Russell

Lastly, it’s time to announce the redemption island twist. When they are voted out, they will live alone on redemption island, not leaving the game unless they lose the duel. At some point, the last man standing will reenter the game.

Probst tosses them some maps and warns them it will be raining a lot out there in Nicaragua.

Ralph has done all this stuff. If they listen to him, he’ll build them a decent shack, and probably an outhouse. Over on his tribe, Boston Rob takes control of the construction, which he has experience in before he became a reality TV star for a living.

Phillip is already starting to rub some of the girls the wrong way. At first, I thought it was just Francesca, a lawyer, always a bad sign regardless of the fact of how much she keeps rambling, but since someone else agrees with her, I’ll consider it as a problem.’

Kristina begins her hunt for the hidden immunity idol, surprised nobody else is doing the same. Her searching through their belongings is not lost on Boston Rob, who lets her know. He then talks to Phillip, commenting on how many girls there are there, and how they need to be watched. Hearing this, Phillip goes to Kristina, telling her this and that he will stick to the girls. Easier said than done.

Is Stephanie lucky girl #3 for Russell? That’s the plan, or so it seems. The others quickly see this. Someone comments how Russell’s not a threat. I have bad news for you then. He’s managed to eliminate more people than you can shake a stick at.

After realizing it probably won’t be as simple as just looking in their bags, Kristina later goes searching and finds the hidden immunity idol. She believes this will help her eliminate Rob. Good luck with that. Her alliance to help her achieve that: Francesca and Phillip. Great, two people who neither seem stable nor like each other.

The first immunity challenge is to push four blocks along tracks to build a base of a temple, run up the steps and use an axe to chop a series of ropes, run up another set of steps, and race to complete a block puzzle. Zapatera starts off the pushing with a bit of a lead. They extend this on the second block and then significantly more on the next block, when they lap Ometepe. Ralph starts rope chopping, while Ometepe continues to struggle. They’d better pray the other team struggles on the puzzle, or at least that Rob’s good enough to catch them up. Zapatera’s lead shrinks quite a bit, but not enough for the others to make up for their poor start. Zapatera wins immunity and fire.

As weak as this tribe is, they would be dog dumb to get rid of Boston Rob. Nonetheless, Kristina wants to do just that. She tells Francesca she has the idol, and she wants them two plus their buddy Phillip to vote for Rob, while the rest of the tribe votes her out and she burns the idol. Francesca warns her this is a stupid plan, and they should get rid of Natalie instead.

Rob wanted to vote Francesca out because her big mouth started yapping right away, telling Probst from minute one she didn’t trust Rob. After thinking about it, he doesn’t trust Kristina, who was digging for the idol right away. As a precaution, he’d like to split the vote between the two, just in case Kristina has the idol. Just to be clear, don’t switch your vote, unlike the idiot last season.

Phil wants an answer. Who does Kristina have lined up to vote with them? Nobody. She thinks the idol will do all the voting for them, so she shows it to him.

At tribal council, Phillip says that Francesca and Kristina asked him to vote for Rob. Well, there goes their whole plan up in smoke, not that it was a good one to begin with. Oh, and by the way, Kristina has an immunity idol. Awesome. Kristina acknowledges that she considered voting for Rob but wouldn’t do it, not yet. Rob has a proposal then: give him the immunity idol, and she can stay. She can’t do that. Good luck to you.

Kristina has decided not to play the idol. She should be safe, barely, for now, unfortunately.

Votes
Kristina
Kristina
Francesca
Phillip
Francesca
Phillip
Kristina
Francesca
Francesca

With 4 votes, Francesca has been voted off the island. So many mistakes in her brief three day stay.

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

The Biggest Loser Season 11 Episode 7

One week after his wife went home, Q was eliminated in The Biggest Loser Season 11 Episode 6.

For the challenge, they will be tied to a rope. All they have to do is untie themselves first. Cowboy Justin thinks this is right up his alley. The winning team will receive the only key to the gym. Arthur will sit out for the black team. The red team manages to get free first.

Although the black team contestants are afraid of what’s to come, Bob is not too terribly afraid, since they have trained without a gym before. It’s not like they are always going to have access to a gym when they go home. Jillian, meanwhile, says the teams are like the Care Bears against an NFL team, and she jokes about how the prizes are decided since her team last week only got videos from home. Granted, for whatever strange reason, the players always act like someone died when they get the videos, having been away from their families for multiple numbers of days and/or weeks.

Perhaps worse, the black team has a lot of tension and negative energy. That’s not going to help them out any more than missing the treadmills.

During his workout, Rulon throws a temper tantrum. For someone who seems to have been doing a great job all season, he refuses to listen to his trainer, complaining that she’s stacking the deck against him by expecting more out of him (a former gold medalist who’s easily the strongest person in the house) than others on his team. Additionally, he does not want to take an emotional journey here. If he doesn’t want to address why he’s there, he may as well not bother because he’ll just be right back to that stage again in short order.

Arthur’s making some supper. He wants his team to help him decide between steak and chicken sausage. For them, either of these foods is a great big problem. His only option, they say, is fish. He’d also like to cook it in olive oil, which they warn him would be more calories than the meal itself.

Tonight’s challenge will be to push a 24 ton train 800 feet. Alison says that strength isn’t everything. Yeah it is. Red team’s got this won already. Anyway, along the way they will have to answer six trivia questions. If they are wrong, 15 seconds will be added to their time. The winning team will get to pick one player from the other team whose weight will not count. Deni sits out for the black team. They’re not going to have a lot of time to think about their answers, as they will have to toss the bags off the moving train that’s not slowing down. Black team (minus Arthur, who’s running behind the train and trying to catch up) finishes in 2:05, and they are worried they have missed multiple questions. Red team goes second, and they’re left with a scenario in which two girls throw the bags while six guys push the train, a completely opposite group composition to the other team. Red team crosses the finish line in 1:35, an advantage equivalent to two wrong answers. Black team got four questions wrong. That’s a win or at least a tie for the red team unless they got everything wrong. With one and only one question right, the red team wins.

Whether he wants to or not, Rulon has decided to start to open up to his trainer. Her fear is that, without a competition, he’ll gain his weight back, but he says he’ll compete against himself.

Hoping to boost Arthur’s confidence following the train challenge, Jillian has some fun planned for him. They’re going to revisit day one, pushing the truck around. In contrast to the first time when it took the whole team, he’s now able to do it on his own.

Having won the challenge, the red team will be able to choose one member of the black team to sit out, but first the red team will weigh in.

Jay: 308 pounds (-9, 2.84%)
Jen: 211 pounds (-7, 3.21%)
Moses: 333 pounds (-7, 2.06%)
Kaylee: 187 pounds (-3, 1.58%)
Justin: 277 pounds (-5, 1.77%)
Rulon: 371 pounds (-11, 2.88%) – over 100 pounds lost
Austin: 306 pounds (-10, 3.16%)
Ken: 296 pounds (-11, 3.58%)
Red Total: 2289 pounds (-63, 2.68%)

I’m not sure it necessarily matters who the red team chooses to sit out since there is no particularly obvious choice, but they decide to have Irene’s weight loss not count.

Irene: 198 pounds (-6, 2.94%)

Deni: 196 pounds (-5, 2.49%)
Sarah: 208 pounds (-4, 1.89%)
Olivia: 206 pounds (-2, 0.96%)
Hannah: 194 pounds (-7, 3.48%)
Marci: 181 pounds (-6, 3.21%)
Courtney: 258 pounds (-7, 2.64%)
Jesse: 238 pounds (-8, 3.25%)
Arthur: 415 pounds (-20, 4.60%)
Black Total (excluding Irene): 1896 pounds (-59, 3.02%)

For the first time this season, the person with the most to lose has finally stepped up to the plate, winning the weigh in for his team. Had the red team selected Arthur, they would have won, but I can’t blame them considering his performance thus far.

This week, the red team does not have it quite so easy, not having someone they hate to get rid of. The one person they can’t vote for is their team’s Biggest Loser, Ken. The simplest thing now is to get rid of one of the newbies, Jay or Jen, regardless of them outperforming most of the others on the team. Jay has asked that his daughter be allowed to stay.

Votes
Moses: Jay
Kaylee: Jay
Austin: Jay
Jen: Kaylee
Jay: Rulon
Rulon: Jay

With 4 votes, Jay is not The Biggest Loser. From his starting weight of 400 pounds, Jay is down 111 pounds to 289. His biological age has decreased by 7 years to 64, and his risk of diabetes, stroke, and heart attack are down significantly.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 11 Episode 8, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

Survivor: Redemption Island Cast

Two former castaways will once again return to do battle in Survivor: Redemption Island. Russell Hantz and Boston Rob Mariano will make their third and fourth attempts at the million dollar prize respectively. I’d put money on Rob, but unless Russell has come up with a different strategy, he’s nothing more than someone to drag along to the end in hopes people are bitter enough to not vote for him. In addition to these two returning castaways, the Survivor: Redemption Island cast consists of 16 additional contestants.

Ometepe Tribe

* Andrea Boehlke, 21, Random Lake, Wis.; student
* Matt Elrod, 22, Nashville; pre-med student
* Francesca Hogi, 36, Washington D.C.; attorney
* Kristina Kell, 46, Malibu; law student
* Grant Mattos, 29, West Hollywood; former NFLer, yoga instructor
* Phillip Sheppard, 52, Santa Monica; technology executive
* Natalie Tenerelli, 19, Acton, Calif.; professional dancer
* Ashley Underwood, 25, Benton, Maine; nurse

Zapatera Tribe

* Mike Chiesl, 31, Del Mar, Calif.; former Marine
* Ralph Kiser, 44, Lebanon, Va.; farmer
* Krista Klumpp, 25, Columbia, S.C.; pharmaceutical rep.
* David Murphy, 31, West Hollywood; defense attorney
* Stephanie Valencia, 25, Long Beach, Calif.; waitress
* Sarita White, 36, Santa Monica; visual effects producer
* Julie Wolfe, 50, Oceanside, Calif.; firefighter
* Steve Wright, 51, Huntington Beach, Calif.; former NFL player

American Idol Season 10 Episode 8

San Francisco turned out to be a lot better than LA in American Idol Season 10 Episode 7, and we met Stefano Langone, Clint Jun Gamboa, and James Durbin. Tonight we start Hollywood week.

Brett Loewenstern starts things off on a positive note. Half of the contestants will be sticking around today, and he is among them. Rachel Zevita follows suit, and so do Thia Megia and Casey Abrams.

Sugary Victoria Huggins sounds a little less sweet, and she’s sent home packing all 11 bags.

James Durbin is here to do this for his fiancee and son, and Paris Tassin is here for her daughter. They are in the same line with Lauren Alaina and Miss Teen USA Stormi Henley. Of the four, only Stormi has been cut.

Chris Medina, like James, is singing for his fiancee. He has made it to the next round.

The next group is all about the youth of the competition. Hollie Cavanagh barely composed herself enough to make it through the audition round, while Jacee Badeaux and Robbie Rosen proved to be contenders. All three advance to the next stage.

Steve Beghun is American Idol’s lone accountant, and this is the end of the line for him. Sarah Sellers and Jacquelyn Dupree are also going home, as is Heidi Khzam.

Ex couple Rob Bolin and Chelsee Oaks don’t like each other much better than before, but perhaps they can learn from the sickeningly in love couple Nick Fink and Jacqueline Dunford, who they are bunking with. Both Rob and Chelsee will be remaining in Hollywood. Nick and Jacqueline, however, are being split up, as only she advances. He asks for another shot, which he should know ain’t happening. Maybe next year. He still can’t get the hint after being told no a second time.

Scottie McCreery resings the same song as he did last time. Safe and boring. Jackie Wilson and Jerome Bell do the same. This tactic works for all of them.

Tiffany Rios says she’s tired of seeing people try to do what she knows she can. I’ve got bad news for you then. This is a popularity contest as much as it is a singing contest, and that attitude is not gonna fly with the public. Travis Orlando is in line with her. He has been cut, but she just squeaks by.

Clint Gamboa, Julie Zorrilla, Naima Adedapo, Mark and Aaron Gutierrez, Molly DeWolf Swensen, Emily Anne Reed, Stefano Langone, and Ashley Sullivan will all be moving to the next round.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of American Idol Season 10 Episode 9, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on Fox.

American Idol Season 10 Episode 7

With the folks in LA hoping to go down the road a ways to Hollywood in American Idol Season 10 Episode 6, we met brothers Mark and Aaron Gutierrez and not much else. The final audition city is San Francisco because apparently people couldn’t be bothered to travel 400 miles to LA.

Inessa Lee is from Ukraine but moved to Hollywood because she has convinced herself she is a star. I have two words for her: adult movies.

Brittany Mazur, Lara Johnston, and Matthew Nuss are going to Hollywood.

Stefano Langone was in an accident a couple years ago that left him scarred but in the end okay. He sings Heard It Through the Grapevine by Marvin Gaye, and he’s one of the best we have seen yet.

Clint Jun Gamboa is a karaoke host. The judges say his singing is beautiful.

Drew Beaumier comes dressed up as a Transformer. He says this is how people are going to get around in the future. Perhaps he’ll be able to get somewhere in that field, then, since he’s not going to be a singer. Unfortunately, he doesn’t want to be a car for the rest of his life either.

Julie Zorrilla is from Colombia, where she and her family had to abandon their home in the 90s due to the war. The judges like her shoes, and they love her performance of Summertime. Randy says he hasn’t liked this song on this show since Fantasia, a performance I have since forgotten.

Dave Combs tells us real men have long hair. Good luck with that. In either case, the hair’s not enough to make Steven Tyler anything but hostile.

Emily Anne Reed’s house burned down last week. She’s got a unique old school voice, which is enough to get two votes.

The final contestant of the night, James Durbin, never really knew his father because he was a musician and always away, eventually overdosing on drugs. Following this, he was diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome and Asperger’s, which led to a rough childhood, but his wife and child changed his life. The judges are blown away by his performance.

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

The Biggest Loser Season 11 Episode 6

With some time to make up in The Biggest Loser Season 11 Episode 5, Don was eliminated after throwing another weigh in, then Larialmy was sent home as well.

This week, all of Brett & Cara’s players will be wearing red. Bob & Jillian’s players have a decision to make, and they quickly decide they want to wear black rather than blue.

We now head into the temptation. It’s Valentine’s Day. The winner will be given the option of trading two players on their own team for two players on the other team. Each person will receive three minutes alone. Whoever eats the most chocolates can do nothing, or they can make the swap. The winner will be kept a secret. Anybody who doesn’t want things to change might want to participate in this just as much as anybody who does want change, although at this time it does not seem as if anybody has the desire to change up the teams that have been in place for a month.

Sarah decided she does not want to participate in temptations. Jennifer is also not tempted. Hannah considers Valentine’s the worst day of the entire year, and she won’t be eating. Q is the first to take a bite. Then three more. Rulon swallows quickly, getting down 5 chocolates. Not wanting to be outdone, Marci eats one piece of candy for each teammate and two for herself, for a total of 10. Moses just gets ridiculous, eating 21. Speaking of ridiculous, Arthur shovels stuff in his mouth, eating 35, which makes 1 every 5 seconds.

As the winner of the temptation, Arthur now has a choice to make. His decision: say goodbye to your friends. Jen & Jay will be switching with Sarah & Deni. Huh? Shouldn’t you be taking the strongest team if you’re going to pull a stunt like this, or at least not the weakest? Meanwhile, shouldn’t you be getting rid of a weaker team?

Arthur would like to say something. He tells everybody he did it. He just doesn’t trust Jay & Jen. So why’d he pick weak links? Just to have someone to get rid of if they do fail. Nice way to welcome them. The problem for Arthur is he’s just made enemies on both sides, while giving the other side an even bigger advantage than they already had.

For the first time, both teams workout together. The red team’s goal is to make a lot of noise and drown out Bob and Jillian.

Jay & Jen are confident they have been accepted by their new team. Let’s see if they feel that confident if they lose the weigh in.

It’s the first red vs. black challenge. The winning team will get videos from home. The challenge will test five skills: endurance, speed, agility, strength, and knowledge. Each time someone finishes a section, they will receive a present. Once all presents are collected, they will move on to finish one final challenge. After they choose who does what, Alison reveals what they have actually been chosen for. For endurance, they will have to push a rock up a hill wearing a blindfold. Speed will be how fast they can stack a bunch of bricks. Yeah, they’ve been totally tricked. Agility means mental agility, putting five dishes in order of number of calories. Strength is a test of balance, walking across a telephone pole while holding a log. Knowledge is how well they know their way to the heart, shooting an arrow at a heart-shaped target. Lastly, the whole team will complete a final task.

Courtney & Olivia go against Kaylee & Jen on endurance (aka pushing a rock up a hill). Black team takes the lead here. Marci & Irene go against Austin & Rulon on the brick stacking, which must reach 6 feet. Black team retains the lead. Deni & Sarah go against Justin & Jay on the calorie counting. The black team extends their lead, building up one that looks unbeatable as the other team fails to identify the correct order. Arthur & Jesse do the balance beam, and they are finished while the other team is still struggling on the third station. Hannah has shot a ton of guns, so perhaps this bow hunting should come easy to her. She does it on the first try. They start on the final station, a puzzle, while the red team continues to struggle. Black team wins the challenge.

Red team is going to start off the weigh in.

Jay: 317 pounds (-14, 4.23%)
Jen: 218 pounds (-14, 6.03%)
Austin: 316 pounds (-10, 3.07%)
Ken: 307 pounds (-14, 4.36%)
Q: 378 pounds (-7, 1.82%)
Rulon: 382 pounds (-12, 3.05%)
Justin: 282 pounds (-10, 3.42%)
Kaylee: 190 pounds (-5, 2.56%)
Moses: 340 pounds (-11, 3.13%) – 100 pounds lost in 6 weeks, a new record

Q continues to bring up the rear, which Justin says is proof he’s not living up to the promise to his wife. Way to support your team members. Everybody else on the red team, except their lightest member, has put up double digit numbers, although Justin & Rulon are disapointed by their results. These numbers put the black team under the gun.

Deni: 201 pounds (-9, 4.29%)
Sarah: 212 pounds (-10, 4.50%)
Arthur: 435 pounds (-9, 2.03%)
Jesse: 246 pounds (-11, 4.28%)
Courtney: 265 pounds (-10, 3.64%)
Marci: 187 pounds (-13, 6.50%)
Olivia: 208 pounds (-16, 7.14%)
Irene: 204 pounds (-12, 5.56%)
Hannah: 201 pounds (-9, 4.29%)

It may have seemed like a hopeless task at first, but these girls put up huge numbers, easily winning the weigh in. They may perhaps struggle next week, but it’s the other team that has to worry for now. The red team will have to vote someone out. They can vote for anyone other than their Biggest Loser, Jen. Jay assumes he’s a goner, but Q knows they have wanted him gone for weeks.

Votes
Jen: Q
Jay: Q
Q: Jay
Ken: Q
Moses: Q
Justin: Q

Luckily for Jay, he had a buffer. With 5 votes, Q is not The Biggest Loser. It would have made far more sense for him to just accept his fate last week and let his wife stay instead. From his starting weight of 437 pounds, Q now weighs 345, a loss of 92 pounds.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 11 Episode 7, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

American Idol Season 10 Episode 6

Austin brought us Corey Levoy, John Wayne Schulz, Jacqueline Dunford and Nick Fink, and Casey Abrams in American Idol Season 10 Episode 5. Tonight we go to Los Angeles, CA.

Victoria Garrett screeches and makes an effort to scare all cats away.

Tim Halperin has a crush on Jennifer, who won’t tell him how old she is because it’s probably too old for him. Although Randy thinks he needs some more work, the other two let him advance.

Friends Daniel Gomez and Isaac Rodriguez are there to support each other. That support is of no help to either of them. Randy instructs them to never sing again, but they don’t care.

Because News Corp has not yet managed to unload Myspace, they are forcing Idol to pretend it’s still relevant, so we move on to the Myspace auditions.

Karen Rodriguez is the first Myspacer to perform. This is not the first time Karen has run into J Lo, who she previously sang for on TRL.

Tynisha Roches believes she is sexy, talented, and other things which would be considered complimentary. She is alone in that belief. Rather than sit there and be subjected to this, Randy walks out of the room… so she follows him.

Matt “Big Stats” Frankel fancies himself a record producer. Whoever he intends to produce, it will not be himself.

Brothers Mark and Aaron Gutierrez ard there to audition together, which means a duet of Lean on Me. Finally a worthwhile performance tonight.

It seems that is all we’re going to get out of the evening, as the final act of the night, the Human Tornado Cooper Robinson, promises to be a great big waste of time. Is this supposed to be entertaining? Seriously?

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