Herald Sun reports today that Lisa Mitchell has signed a UK deal with RCA/Sony, and the release of her new album has been pushed back from November to a global release in March 2009.

Awww! No I was so looking forward to it.

oh noes! i was looking forward to it :\

WOW

you sent 440 sms for sophie??

and at 55cents each...that would have cost you $242


I AGREE!

Thanh was AWERSOME, and sophie SUCKS!

her voice is horrible! its like listening to finger nails running down a chalk board! its painful to listen to!

sophie should have NEVER gotten through!

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and yes, jess was HOT HOT HOT!
love that song, running back!

From today's Daily Telegraph:


Richard E. Grant and Taryn Fiebig, stars of the musical My Fair Lady, with the remaining finalists

AS elocutionist Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, Richard E Grant knows the power of choice words. So when asked to mentor the remaining contestants on Australian Idol yesterday, Grant's choice of words on the program have proved quite telling.
Describing the talent quest as "brutal'' and a fast-food approach to fame, the esteemed English actor slammed the series for making then breaking dreams.
In yet another PR blow for the show, Grant predicted a poor future for the finalists he was asked to teach the secrets of movement and projection.
I think the hardest thing is that the finalists get all this exposure but then usually go back to working at KFC or something,'' Grant told Confidential on set at the Theatre Royal yesterday.
"It's brutal. I know that on similar shows in England we had these people became such household names but a year later noone remembers who they are.
"They get this instant fame and it can go away just as instantly as it comes,'' he said.
While maintaining an "I can do it'' attitude was important, Grant and his Fair Lady co-star Taryn Fiebig agreed they worried for the Idol wannabes "at the other end.''
"It's not that they are not talented, it's just the way things seem to go,'' Fiebig said of the critical process.
She also made reference to the runner-up syndrome, which cast the winners on a road to nowhere, but helped the second place-getters like Shannon Noll and Anthony Callea.
The harsh glare of the Idol spotlight has proved a help and hinder to its graduates this year.
This week's evictee Thanh Bui has revealed how "really really difficult'' the series was on his esteem.
"There was a lot of comments - it was either touchdown or nothing much. There was no in-between for me and it was hard.''
Despite consistently strong ratings for the Channel 10 show this year, it has come under fire from many in the music industry for its "diminishing return''.
Last year's winner Natalie Gauci was expected to release her prize - a solo album - this year,but those plans have been put off by record company, Sony.
The previous year's Idol, Damien Leith also released a covers album this year, with his album of original tracks not charting as well as expected.

Ricki-Lee and her husband have seperated after only one year of marriage. Distance and time apart is apparently the main thing contributing to the split.

That was on my local radio a moment ago.

^ That's a shame

Yeah it really is. Celebrity weddings are sad though. They barely last.

yer i heard that cass

but its good they ended it on a positive note, like no hard feelings

its a shame tho!


http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=649016

WHAT?! noessss *tear*

It wasn't really a "celebrity marriage" since they were together since before Ricki was on Idol (they were even living together) and he isn't a celebrity anyway but it is sad

Top 7 Motown song choices:

Luke - My Girl
Roshani - Reflections
Sophie - Papa Was A Rolling Stone
Chrislyn - Get Ready
Teale - Aint no Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
Wes - If I were a Carpenter - Four Tops
Mark - You Keep Me Hanging On

New article from today's Sunday Telegraph:

TEENAGER Chrislyn Hamilton is the latest Australian Idol contestant to crumble under the pressure of Channel 10's reality television series.
Hamilton was given special permission to travel home to Brisbane to be with her family and friends after concerns were raised that she felt lonely and ostracised from the other contestants.
But she is just one of many Idol contenders over the reality show's six years to have struggled to cope with the pressure of the competition and the intense scrutiny on their professional and private lives that comes with starring on the show.
"They chew them up and spit them out," said high-profile adolescent and child psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg.
"It may well be a show business ethic that that's OK but, as a human being and as a person who is interested particularly in the psychological wellbeing of young people, I find it abhorrent.
"What would they do if one of these kids developed a major psychological problem as a result of the process? It's something they should be paying attention to."
Contestants, who live together in a six-bedroom mansion during the competition, are given access to a psychologist, but Mr Carr-Gregg said hopeful singers should be "screened" to make sure they don't have any "incipient vulnerability".
Tom Williams, the youngest ever contestant on the show at 16, was visibly shaken when voted out of the series earlier this month.
Other participants to have struggled in previous years include Tarisai Vushe, Casey Donovan and Laura Gissara.
Levi Kereama, from the first series in 2003, died earlier this month after falling from a Brisbane hotel building, with some reports claiming he had been suffering from depression and had taken his own life.
Last year's runner-up Matt Corby, then 16, was spooked by the attention the show brought him and even said in the final week of the competition that he didn't care if he won. He also called police when photographers took pictures of him surfing at Bondi.
"I was 21 when I was on Idol and I thought that was young," said Guy Sebastian, who won the first series and is a guest judge on tonight's show.
"But now you've got the Matt Corbys and the Tom Williamses and Chrislyn - I couldn't imagine how it would be to be 17 going through this kind of stuff.
"You're suddenly judged and summed up. The whole public judges you. And it's lonely."
Chrislyn Hamilton said she felt she was recovering.
"Everyone else is growing while I've kind of plummeted," she said. "But I'm coming back up.
"I've tried not to let it show, but I'm the kind of person who can't hide it.
"I don't want to act grown-up because I'm not, but I don't want to cause grief in the house by acting like an immature person, so I just step back a bit."
Contestant Mark Spano, 27, admitted Hamilton had been left out, but he said the young singer was annoying at times.
"Chrislyn's feeling the pressure and she doesn't know how to deal with it," he said.
"Sometimes she can just be really full-on and in your face constantly. If she's not like that, she's just quietly having a sook."
Judge Ian "D!cko" D!ckson said contestants were given plenty of support and that the pressure they felt was simply part of the entertainment business.
"Now she's in the public eye, it does start to apply the blowtorch a bit about issues of self-esteem, weight and image," he said. "But welcome to the world of celebrity and the music business, really."

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/stor...5001021,00.html

Thanks for the update

The six remaining finalists will be at Westfield Parramatta in Sydney next Saturday (October 25) at 10.30am.
http://westfield.com.au/parramatta/

Yeah but she is a celebrity. I just meant that you see so many celebrities (whether they couple comprises of one or two) marriages crumble so soon into the wedding. It simply has to be the pressure of being a start I guess. I don't know what else it could be!

And the Idol website has posted more info on the McDonald's Australia's Most Loved Songs competition.

Clues revealed so far:
From the album FutureS-x/LoveSounds, the song in position #8 topped the ARIA singles charts in 2006.
Position #4 is by an English singer who was once in boy band Take That.
Position #6 was released in 1991 by a Seattle grunge band, the song in position #6 is often referred to as an anthem of a generation.
Position #10 is a 80s rock release about working class couple Tommy and Gina.
The song in position # is a classic Aussie rock song named after a battle that took place during the Vietnam War.

And these are the 10 songs in contention:
Dancing Queen - ABBA
Livin' on a Prayer - Bon Jovi
Khe Sanh - Cold Chisel
Hotel California - Eagles
Sexyback - Justin Timberlake
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Smells like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Angels - Robbie Williams
With or Without You - U2

Thanks again Johnson

Just watching Idol, Guy is the guest Judge tonight.....Andy G just asked Guy if it was weird sitting there Judging,....

Anywayz Mark did Good

Next up is SOPHIE

Another good night of performances. Chrislyn probably deserved her touchdown, but the writing is on the wall for Sophie. I will vote for her as much as I could, but after her rendition of Papa was a Rolling Stone, I feel her days on Idol is numbered.

Gabirella will be performing tomorrow, in favour of P!nk.

I think Roshani and Sophie will be the bottom two with Sophie going. Unfortunate but true

Same

How good was Luke and Wes!

Sophie and Roshani will probaly be bottom 2, and if thats the case and Roshani goes over Sophie I will spew

I didn't mention this before but Wes so deserved a touchdown

i seriously HATE sophie... sorry.. no offence... she shouldve went a long time ago!

my only fav is Roshani now that madam and brooke are gone!

Loving Mark, Luke and Chrislyn! woohoo.

Wes is kind of boring me atm..i deno why =/.

Sophie, Roshani and Uhm..hmm..Wes (just because i liked everyone else who was left, more) with sophie going thanks

i 100% agree


sophie SUCKS!


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CHRISLYN ROCKED THE HOUSE LAST NIGHT!
SHE WAS AWERSOME!

Sophies gotta go 2night surely!!!


Im liking Mark the best outta the rest. Madam woulda killed them last night if she was still in =[

oh yes she would've^

madam was awersome

I think I (or my friends) may be shown on the show tonight.
Cos at The Arias yesterday they were filming some girls infront of us for it.
I don't know though

I hope Sophie goes too

if she doesnt go, its officially rigged! ^

i dont even know why she made it to the top 12, there were sooooo many other contestants who were MUCH better than her!

WHO ELSE WANTS SOPHIE TO GO?

Teale, Sophie and Mark the bottom 3.

*hands up!!!* ME!!!!!!!!!!

that's what i was predicting.

I have the biggest weirdest feeling Sophie is going to go...
I don't know why. lol

MARK HAD BETTER BE SAFE.



DON'T MAKE ME CUT A BETCH.


He's too sexy to go

I think Teale might go tonight. I think Mark should've been saved above Roshani.

MARK-No
TEAL-NO
SOPHIE-YES

Gabz is on IDOL tonight and I think I like her tonight than I did last night....she said that she was watching back on her speeches last night and she was like 'What was I saying' I'm thinking Yer Gabz what were you Slurring about

so i see mark teale and sophie. i want teale and sohpie gone, SOPHIE FIRST!!!!!!!!!
if mark goes ill be angry

I was surprised to see Mark in the bottom 3. It took him six weeks in the competition to be in the bottom 3, that speaks of the quality of his performance. Great to see Carl Riseley in the audience too.

Yes it was nice to Carl tonight and GREAT Preformance Gabz better than last night lovey Now I won't need to sing 'Nothing stinks about me...'

Congratulations to Gabriella Cilmi for her album Lessons to be Learned getting double platinum Her performance of Save the Lies, the opening track from the album, is great too

soooo who elft?

I believe Lessons To Be Learned was certified Platinum, and the single Sweet About Me has achieved double platinum

Teale is safe

Teale is safe.

Sophie and Mark, two of my favourite finalists (Brooke was the other), are in the bottom 2.

SPOILERS COMING UP

OMG OMG NOT MARK OMG........... don't write Mark!