We completely missed David Cook’s Risky Business-style Guitar Hero commercial Wednesday night but heard about it. He should *always* play guitar with no pants on!
It’s understandable since the friggin’ telecast was TWO HOURS looooooong!! The video above shows all the good stuff, including Simon Cowell’s apology to David Cook.
He told Cook: “Um, I want to congratulate both of you both of you last night because, um, I thought on the night it was a terrific show, I went back home to watch it, it wasn’t quite so clear cut as we had called it. And in fact, David, I will take this moment to apologize because I think I was verging on disrespectful with you. And I don’t think you deserve that because over the seasons both of you, what I liked about both of you is that you are triers. And you’ve both given it your best, you’re both very nice people. And for the first time ever, I really don’t care who wins. I think you’ve both done terrific.”
After last night’s American Idol finale, former flaming-haired Idol and her mate went out and did a little too much celebrating. TMZ posted two videos of the allegedly drunken duo mumbling and stumbling outside the Idol finale after party.
In the first video, her man says, “She’s not crazy, just insane” has he clings to the back of her. The videographer also tells Fantasia Barrino he “loves” her red hair. We love it, too — in that same way we love Britney Spears’ love handles and Lindsay Lohan’s lesbo love-affair.
Things get much more, um, wobbly in the next video. The man in the white suit is slumped over outside of Fantasia’s limo, and some douche tries to stand in front of the camera, as he lifts his coattails to cover the liquored-up lad.
The remaining 30 seconds of the vid is pretty much pointless. It’s just the camera guy saying Fantasia’s name over and over and zooming in on the limo’s tinted windows. Guess it was time for some sleep sex. Awww yeah.
7:02 p.m. Wow. There was 97 million votes cast last night. This topped last year’s by more than 20.3 million!!!! This mostly has to do with each person voting for his or her favorite 70 plus times.
7:05 p.m. A Brady Bunch-esque opening number by the top 12 sets the mood — this finale is going to be looooong, commercial-laden and mostly lame.
7:10 p.m. “Holding Out For A Hero” turns out to be a beautiful duet by the Davids. Looking back, these two are probably the best top two since Kelly Clarkson and Justin Whats-his-name. At the very least, they are one of the most attractive pairs of finalists.
7:13 p.m. And now for an obnoxious movie plug of some awful Bollywood Mike Meyers movie. Uh, saying sitar hero is neither funny nor ironic. It’s just dumb.
7:16 p.m. OK, can this guru Meyers thing end now? “I also predict I will shamelessly promote The Love Guru…” he says. Nuh-no. This is more than shameless. This product pushing is a main reason why the ratings have slipped for Idol.
7:18 p.m. Syesha sings “Waiting for You” with a surprise guest. Who will it be? Randy Jackson? Oh, it’s just Seal. Does anyone care about him anymore? Didn’t think so.
7:27 p.m. I read somewhere that Jason Castro’s just going to make some half-assed Jack Johnson album and sell like 10,000 copies. I can’t get over how apt that description was. Read more…
But which one?!?!?! The rocker boy or the glee club member? The cool guy or the geek? If you’d like to see a preliminary tally, click here!
Us Weekly asked David Cook for his thoughts after last night’s three-round sing off. He told them: “I don’t feel like I’ve won it or lost it. I feel like it’s completely out of my hands.”
It’s out of ours now, too. And we’ll have to wait through a painfully long, two-hour finale to find out.
Our prediction: Archie will claim the title; Cook will outsell him on the charts 10:1.
