America’s Got Talent Season 5 Episode 8

Portland day 1 brought us Airpocalypse, Connor Doran, and William Scott Anderson in America’s Got Talent Season 5 Episode 7. Now we head back to Portland for day 2.

Taxi driver Soriah usually sings in his cab. He wants to show the judges something they’ve never seen before. He comes dressed up as a… I don’t know what the hell he’s dressed as. Then he proceeds to make strange noises like a man possessed (but not with any talent).

The Amazing Amy performs contortion yoga dancing. I’m not sure whether she’s Amy or not, but she’s definitely not amazing.

Hart Keene takes off his shirt to start. Then he proceeds to swallow needles. The judges are annoyed by him. Natasha Delepine has the hair of a troll doll and makes up a song on the spot.

Family group The Hot Shot Tap Dancers will hopefully break the losing streak. Piers thinks they’re very cool and loves the look and feel of it. But he wasn’t wild about the choreography.

Isabelle and Ryan (AscenDance) have decided to combine dancing and climbing. Really? Somehow, the combination works. They drive each other up a wall much better than Howie does with his wife.

RNG (Rated Next Generation) is a group of young dancers ages 11-13 with potential. Paul Safy, Jr. is an old school singer. The Sky Sirens do a doubles trapeze act that looks like it may well have been awesome, if only we’d seen more of it. Kent Jenkins plays an instrument he and his father built. They are all going to Vegas.

Ryan Compton has a talent that’s extremely different. 99% could not even attempt to do it. Nor would they want to. He starts off by making high pitched noises, then he jumps around randomly in what’s apparently supposed to be dancing.

Harmonica Pierre is a 74 year old from Belgium. This is the greatest love of his life, more so than his ex-wife. Good… but Sharon doesn’t think she can take too much of it. The other two will allow him to advance.

The final act of the night is Christina and Ali, a pair of singing sisters. They and both of their siblings have cystic fibrosis. The judges are amazed and inspired.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of America’s Got Talent Season 5 Episode 9, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on NBC.

America’s Got Talent Season 5 Episode 7

Day 2 of Orlando brought us Simeon Mulder and Harmonik in America’s Got Talent Season 5 Episode 6. Now we head to Portland.

Magique (really?) Bazaar is more bizarre than magical. The act is apparently to keep changing into different masks. Then fall off the stage.

Living Dead Girlz are a zombie dance group that are not as hot as they think. Continuing the horror theme, Bloody Maggie and Her Pet come out on to stage. She’s actually a social worker. Vee Bee sings on the trapeze. At least she doesn’t break anything. Tiny Talent is a bunch of chihuahuas that run around randomly on stage.

Jeremy is from Talent, OR. He does a bunch of stunts on a bike while hovering over Nick Cannon’s face. Once he’s done torturing Nick, he heads on to platforms to attempt some more stunts. This guy will be lucky if he doesn’t bust his head open, but he’ll be given a second chance to show what else he can do.

Bhangra Empire performs an Indian cultural dance. The Strange Familiar is a talented singing couple. Northwest Dance & Acro is pretty much what it sounds like. These acts all advance to Vegas.

Airpocalypse is an air guitar super group. As opposed to a regular air guitar group I guess. Strangely enough, they’re actually entertaining. I hope they’re wearing more clothes when they return.

Rebecca Roudman plays the cello. It’s like a giant violin. You really can’t turn this into rock, though. Piers is afraid that death will be like this.

Connor Doran flies indoor kites. That’s a real thing? He has epilepsy but hopes to prove he can do things regardless of what he’s told. Angel by Sara McLachlan is a brilliant song choice for this surprisingly touching act.

William Scott Anderson performed magic while in the military to cheer up children. Apparently, his magic act costume is his uniform. He puts a girl in a box, then proceeds to fold that box, followed by jabbing swords through it. He’ll be going to the next round.

Sally Cohn is young (at heart). After putting a block of wood under one foot (because one leg’s shorter than the other) and then lubricating her hands, she does a hand whistle of America the Beautiful. With about 5 notes left to go, Sharon buzzes her. Sally’s actually written a book about hand whistling/coming out, which Howie buys for 12 bucks. It turns out she’s more entertaining as a comedian than she is as a whistler.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of America’s Got Talent Season 5 Episode 8.

So You Think You Can Dance Season 7 Episode 9

The top 10 performed in So You Think You Can Dance Season 7 Episode 8. Tonight one more will go home.

Cristina Santana is the first person in the bottom three.

Alex Wong, Ashley Galvan, Jose Ruiz, and Melinda Sullivan are up next. Alex is safe. Jose is also safe. The second dancer to join the bottom three is Melinda.

Lauren Froderman, Robert Roldan, and Billy Bell are the last group of the night. Lauren is safe. Robert is the final person in the bottom three.

That brings us down to a battle between Christina, Melinda, and Robert.

After they all dance for their lives, the judges have made a decision that is not unanimous. Robert is quickly told he’s safe, leaving it down to the two girls. Nigel would let Melinda go, as she’s someone the public are not connecting with. The other two, however, have vetoed that decision. Cristina Santana has been eliminated.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of So You Think You Can Dance Season 7 Episode 10, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on Fox.

So You Think You Can Dance Season 7 Episode 8

Alexie Agdeppa was the first person to be sent home in So You Think You Can dance Season 7 Episode 7. Tonight the top 10 perform.

After the random drawing, Neil and Twitch will not be dancing this week.

Cristina Santana with Pasha
Style: Paso doble
Choreographers: Jean-Marc Generaux & France
Song: Ira Deorum/Sanctus by James Dooley
Nigel: Needs passion, power, fire, and control. Cristina brought that tonight.
Mia: Everything.
Adam: Mucho caliente. Extraordinary confidence and commitment.
Number: 1-888-6-BEST-01

Adechike Torbert with Allison
Style: Contemporary
Choreographer: Mandy Moore
Song: Listen to Your Heart by D.H.T. Feat. EDMEE
Nigel: Improvement is there. Watch that you don’t interrupt the flow of your emotional side with steps.
Mia: Better than last week.
Adam: You’re dancing from your head rather than your heart.
Number: 1-888-6-BEST-02

Alex Wong with Lauren
Style: Broadway
Choreographer: Tyce Diorio
Song: Summertime by Sylvester
Nigel: Should have watched some Youtube videos first. Bring a little more power to your performance now. Everything technically is there.
Mia: Should have been more ssssssss…
Adam: For you, this competition is about versatility and growth. Not a lot of levels. Flash and no smolder.
Number: 1-888-6-BEST-03

Ashley Galvan with Mark
Style: Jazz
Choreographer: Travis Wall
Song: Wonderful by Annie Lennox
Nigel: Haven’t really learned anything new about you.
Mia: One of my favorite girls.
Adam: Really challenging but would have liked to have seen some more moments for you to lose yourself in.
Number: 1-888-6-BEST-04

Billy Bell with Comfort
Style: Krump
Choreographer: Lil C
Song: So U Think U Can Krump by Tha J-Squad
Nigel: Toughest style you will find. Have not found the warrior in you yet.
Mia: Knocked on the warrior’s door, but you were afraid to open it. A little freaked out.
Adam: I got no buck. A failed experiment.
Number: 1-888-6-BEST-05

Robert Roldan with Anya
Style: Argentine Tango
Choreographers: Jean-Marc Generaux & France
Song: Libertango by Bond Quartet
Nigel: Magnificent. Everything about it was tremendous.
Mia: Anya devoured you. Needed more power.
Adam: Beautiful footwork. Looked fabulous but stressed out.
Number: 1-888-6-BEST-06

Melinda Sullivan with Ade
Style: Contemporary
Choreographer: Stacey Tookey
Song: Squander by Skunk Anasie
Nigel: Fantastic lines for a tapper.
Mia: Love the concept. Would never have thought you were a tapper.
Adam: Great. Fantastic.
Number: 1-888-6-BEST-07

Jose Ruiz with Kathryn
Style: Bollywood
Choreographer: Nakul dev Mahajan
Song: Marjaani Marjaani Kesame from Billu Barber (Soundtrack)
Nigel: Didn’t quite get there.
Mia: So wrong that you were so right.
Adam: Brightest light on this show. Totally wrong but fantastic to watch.
Number: 1-888-6-BEST-08

Lauren with Dominic
Style: Lyrical hip hop
Choreographer: Tessandra Chavez
Song: If I Were a Boy by Beyonce
Nigel: Believable. Give yourself a stronger base.
Mia: Worked so much. Outstanding performance. One of the best of the night.
Adam: Took my notes. Got better. Extraordinary performance.
Number: 1-888-6-BEST-09

Kent Boyd with Courtney
Style: Jazz
Choreographer: Tyce Diorio
Song: Amy Amy Amy by Amy Winehouse
Nigel: Not as much fun as the cha-cha.
Mia: Great moments of technique and physicality. Have to transform out of Kent world.
Adam: What she said.
Number: 1-888-6-BEST-10

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of So You Think You Can Dance Season 7 Episode 9, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on Fox.

America’s Got Talent Season 5 Episode 6

A trip to Orlando in America’s Got Talent Season 5 Episode 5 led us to Nick Pike, Trystan and Krystan, and Wreckless. Tonight we head back to Orlando for day 2.

Frankie Elliston is going to do some magic, which he’s practiced while serving at Chili’s. He will be taking a string in his mouth and getting it out another orifice. Which one he doesn’t seem sure. He pulls it out of his stomach. What the hell is this? Because he has disgusted everybody, Frankie will be going to Vegas.

Murray Sawchuck is also a magician, and he’s brought a blonde dressed like a schoolgirl with him. The South Philly Vikings is a distractingly costumed dance group. Max Winfrey is a knife thrower, who has kidnapped Nick so he has someone to throw knives at. They’re all going to Vegas.

Erin Barylski’s talent is to paint a flag with her body. Uh. If you say so. What would her next act be? We may find out.

Dutch (Netherlands, not Pennsylvania) student Simeon Mulder is a piano player. Quite impressive. Piers says he’s got more talent than any other act this season.

Tiahizzi Cherrelle will be doing a song and dance routine. It’s obvious this will suck. To add insult to injury, she starts stripping.

Yogi Laser then tries to prove to the world he’s the light. He fails. Paul Pierog follows this with an entire group of freaks for his act. Fafo is another stripper we really don’t want to see partially clothed, forcing Sharon to cover her face.

Studio One Young Beast Society is a dance group in need of a shorter name. Piers likes the fresh feel of the group.

Efim Tabachnikov is going to sing. Even being 72 won’t save him, though. At least he doesn’t hear them say no.

Harmonik is a group of musicians from Haiti. They sing a very original version of Hallelujah.

Sponjetta Parrish is a disaster waiting to happen. She sings Studio, the most ridiculous original song I’ve heard since Pants on the Ground. Nick singing with her… not helping.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of America’s Got Talent Season 5 Episode 7.

Hell’s Kitchen Season 7 Episode 6

Maria was sent packing in Hell’s Kitchen Season 7 Episode 5.

Nilka has decided she hates everybody, from the bottom of her ass.

The challenge is to create dishes using one of the 5 mother sauces and all 20 ingredients with no repeats. Blue works on a plan together. Nilka is focused on her own dish, for which she hordes all the ingredients she can get her hands on. Autumn is happy to be working on a united team without all that bickering.

Because we haven’t seen enough of his family members so far this season, Ramsay has invited his mother and wife to help judge.

Fran cooked pasta and oysters. Ramsay calls her a smart cookie for taking the risk with that combination. Salvatore has made eggplant and undercooked pasta. Red team gets the first point.

Siobhan has butterfly cornish hen, or at least that’s what she thinks. It’s a pigeon, a bloody one. Not even gonna taste that one. Jay has made duck breast and peas. Bland, undercooked, and crunchy. Nobody gets a point.

Holli makes halibut. Or sea bass as Ramsay calls it. Ed and Autumn cooked sea bass as well. Both dishes are good, but the blue team gets the point.

Nilka cooked steak and mushrooms. First class. Jason made steak and potatoes, also very tasty. Red team takes the lead 2-1.

Benjamin made John Dory. A little dry and a touch too little seasoning. Scott made duck breast on sweet potatoes. Too pink and unseasoned. Blue team ties 2-2.

In order to break the tie, Ramsay highlights Jason’s dish, which shouldn’t have lost the point anyway. This brings the blue team to a win.

Nilka, who had the best dish, has Scott angry. She grabbed all the ingredients everybody else wanted. Not only did that help her shine, but it also screwed over everybody else.

Red team will be cleaning the kitchens. In the process, Siobhan breaks out in hives. Punishment part two is to prep both kitchens.

Blue team will be treated to an English afternoon, which I take to mean tea and crumpets.

Fran says that the red team is so much worse now that Scott’s there. He may not be bringing much to the table in terms of cooking, but at least he’s not having a breakdown like half the chicks on the team.

It’s family night, meaning there will be a children’s menu, and Ramsay will make an effort for the first few seconds not to swear.

Who’s cooking the spaghetti? Red team does not know. Perhaps if Benjamin explains it to Siobhan, she will cook it. Might want to wait until the water is boiling first, though.

The blue kitchen is getting appetizers out to their customers, but it’s not long before Salvatore starts getting yelled at. By lying about the risotto, he’s lost Ramsay’s trust. He had it before?

Nilka gets scolded for cursing in front of the children. Pot, meet kettle.

Fran overcooks her scallops. Maybe Jason can deliver the chicken on the blue team. Maybe not.

Back in the red kitchen, appetizers finally start going out. Now Scott can try to cook the beef. Try being the operative word. He knew they were undercooked but didn’t think they were too undercooked. That’s comforting.

Ramsay gathers the red team for a question. Is that the best roast chicken and the best beef? No, chef. Red team is dismissed. Time to dogpile on Scott. It’s apparently his fault they suck.

With the red team out of the kitchen, the yelling stops, and service is completed.

Red team will need to pick two nominees. Scott says Siobhan and Nilka or Fran. The women will obviously target him.

The first nominee is Scott; the second nominee is Fran. That said, Fran wants Siobhan to be the second nominee. This all leads to continued bickering amongst the team. Fire them all. What chance do any of them really have?

Fran, Scott, and Siobhan step forward. Scott’s finally reached the end of his rope. He may be overly full of himself, but the red team’s downfall is their arguing.

Benjamin, who had hoped to destroy the red team, is now part of it. Good luck, dude.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Hell’s Kitchen Season 7 Episode 7, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on Fox.

Hell’s Kitchen Season 7 Episode 5

With both teams having performed well, Autumn and Scott were spared from elimination in Hell’s Kitchen Season 7 Episode 4, although it meant they had to switch to the opposite teams.

Autumn’s happy to be blue, since it means she can get away from those bitches. Scott continues to claim his downfall was helping other people.

Ramsay brings in some pigs. They’re not going to have to butcher them. Rather, on their collars are ingredients. Nilka wants to get bacon, but bacon is too damn fast. She gets stuck with blood sausage. Hopefully that goes well with prunes.

Once that is done, they will work in pairs for 45 minutes to cook three pork dishes. Siobhan doesn’t like Scott because people who offer input suck. Fran and Nilka explode their already difficult to make appealing blood sausage.

Nilka and Fran cooked blood sausage with a prune puree. Nilka’s not pleased with the plate. Ramsay spits it out. Whose idea was prune and sausages? That would be Scott, but to be fair, the items Nilka and Fran were so horrible they deserved to get screwed over. Benjamin and Ed cook pork loin and bok choy. This dish is delicious. They score a point, and Ben offers to make love to his dish.

Jason and Autumn cooked honey glazed bacon with honeyslaw. Nice but too sweet. Ramsay suggests they should have added mustard, which Autumn wanted to do but was shot down. Siobhan and Holli made pork tenderloin with sweet and sour apple and mustard sauce. Cooked perfectly, and the red team ties it 1-1.

Jay and Salvatore cooked pork loin chop and pinto beans. Nice. Maria and Scott made something quite long-winded. Nobody can figure out what Maria is babbling about. Ramsay explains it, and what was wrong with it. The sweet potato soup garnished with a bit of hamhock is not what the task was. The pork was supposed to be the main ingredient. Blue team wins the challenge.

For their punishment, the red team will clean up the pigs. And in case you’re wondering, pigs really don’t like taking baths. The blue team’s reward is a trip to the spa. They find out that Autumn looks better in a bikini than Scott would.

Tonight is the first ever Hell’s Kitchen BBQ.

Nilka starts off frying chicken. The problem is this is not a fast food restaurant. She shouldn’t have fried half the chicken before they even begin.

While the blue team is serving, red team will be cooking. Then they’ll switch around.

Sal says that, if the customer doesn’t like the food, he has no problem bringing it right back. His writing’s not any better than it was last time, which he says is because he didn’t go to school.

There’s plenty of arguing in the kitchen. Nobody wants to listen to anybody. These idiots might consider listening to Ramsay at least.

Fran gets the first compliment of the night, doing a good job on her appetizers.

Autumn follows right where Sal started. Rather than just offering to take food back, she badgers people to do so. She’ll be taking whatever she can get back, just for the sake of screwing over the other team. Siobhan’s burgers are returned undercooked.

Scott’s chicken does not impress. It’s like leftover fast food, which is apparently a bad thing. Then he gets yelled at for leaving the oven door open while cooking.

This time the burgers don’t even get out. Siobhan’s burgers get rejected by Ramsay because they are raw. With that, time’s up.

Blue team heads into the kitchen, as the red team goes out into the serving area. Red team doesn’t even have to try to screw up. It takes 10 minutes for the first ordered to be delivered.

Like Fran, Jay gets compliments for his appetizers.

Sal’s in his own little world. He’s got too many voices in his head.

Maria and Holli both take orders from table 33. Ramsay’s question is why Maria didn’t check whether their orders had already been taken. If I’m a customer, I’d let her know without being checked with. All quite fishy.

Autumn’s ribs are stone cold.

After an hour and a half, all of the diners have received their appetizers. If only they were the ones they asked for. Another screw up by Maria.

Jason has dropped some chicken in with the fries. Sounds like a good idea to me. Not such a good idea to the ranting madman.

The red team loses because it’s almost like they all hate each other. Fran will be responsible for nominating two people. Scott’s pitch is that Maria’s screwed no matter what, but she shouldn’t risk him, too.

Maria is the first nominee. Nilka is the second nominee, and she’s not happy by this surprise. If Fran won’t nominate Scott, Ramsay will.

Nilka can get back in line. Scott’s nomination was merely an attempt at creating drama, as Maria is the person leaving Hell’s Kitchen.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Hell’s Kitchen Season 7 Episode 6, which airs next on Fox.

Jake and Vienna Break Up

It’s rarely a surprise when a Bachelor couple breaks up, and Jake and Vienna from The Bachelor 14 are no exception. They lasted about 7 months since the proposal, which may well be a record for this show (Jason and Melissa notwithstanding).

Sources told TMZ that Jake believed Vienna was cheating on him with Gregory Michael of Greek.

According to Vienna’s stepmom, Jake “is a total fraud,” and “I think he picked her because she is a dramatic person and it was good for the ratings.” She continued, “In real life, they never kissed, didn’t have a romantic relationship and he never told her that he loved her.”