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HERE’S THE RUNDOWN OF THE RESULTS SHOW:
The gang sang Mariah Carey’s massive hit duet with Boyz II Men, “One Sweet Day.” And I do mean massive, it was #1 for 16 weeks — that’s four months in a row! NO SONG should ever be played that much. The Idol kids frankly made a mess of it; this did no favors to anyone. Later Elliot Yamin (who just lost his mom — my sympathies) sang “Free” and then Mariah Carey sang “Bye Bye.”
They started splitting the top 7 into two groups. On one side was Jason Castro and Carly Smithson and on the other David Cook and Kristy Lee. At this point, I wrote down, “David Archuleta will go last” because of course everyone knows anyone with the initials “D” and “A” will always be safe so putting him in one group or the other would end the suspense. Again, hats off to Archuleta for never seeming to acknowledge his front-runner status and yet not play it with false modesty either. He just goes with the flow, wisely. Then it became Jason Castro and Carly Smithson and Syesha on one side and David Cook and Kristy Lee Cook and Brooke White on the other. I admit I was a little flummoxed here and wasn’t quite sure but just assumed Archuleta would be in David Cook’s gang. Then they switched Cook with Syesha (the sneaky bastards) and suddenly it made more sense and clearly Syesha and Kristy Lee and Brooke were the bottom three.
They brought Archuleta out, told him he was safe (brief but not annoying sigh of relief from him — again, this is a very difficult tightrope he’s walking since EVERYONE knew he was safe) and then Ryan told him to choose which group he thought was safe. But Archuleta has been watching this show all his life and he knew enough to pull the old “I’m sitting in the middle” stunt until they made the obvious clear.

huffingtonpost.com

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Hayden Panettiere is the poster girl of hit television show Heroes. The plot of the series about ordinary people who suddenly discover they’ve got superpowers could almost work as a metaphor for the life of the 18-year-old. Overnight she was thrown into the global limelight by the phenomenal success of the show. Every word and action of this girl from upstate New York became newsworthy, including her wardrobe, the men on her arm and, perhaps more surprisingly, her politics.
In Heroes, which returns to BBC2 tonight, Panettiere (pronounced Pah-nuh-tee-air-ay, like the Italian for “baker”) plays Claire Bennet, a 15-year-old cheerleader, who, in the first episode, discovered that she could heal instantly from any injury. The indestructible high-school student is forced to hide her ability from her peers and maintain a relationship with her father, a man who is keenly interested in people with special powers.
The first series won plaudits and awards but the start of the second series was met with a backlash when it aired in the US. Fans complained that the show had become lacklustre, the new characters were uninteresting, the trademark episode cliffhangers were noticeable by their absence and the story was unfolding too slowly. Show creator Tim Kring even went on record to apologise for the mis-steps and just as the season got back on track, the writers’ strike ensured that the second series only had 11 episodes rather than the expected 24. Arguably it was a blessing in disguise.
However, just as interest in the show was beginning to wane, media interest in Panettiere went into overdrive as it emerged that she was dating her co-star Milo Ventimiglia. The news was met with consternation among her fans, with a consensus that the 12-year age gap between the pair was too large.
The blonde teenager has complained about the judgmental attitude of the criticism, but believes that she is now mature enough to handle it. One of the reasons for this is a holiday to Europe that she took with Ventimiglia and fellow cast members Jack Coleman and Adrian Pasdar: “About five days after I turned 18 [in August 2007] I took off to Europe with them. It was the first time that my mother hasn’t travelled with me and we went to Munich, Paris and London. It was such a different experience being on your own and it just changed me dramatically. My mom says that one person walked on that plane and another person walked off.”

independent.co.uk

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