Here are the scheduled tour dates:

• January 8 – Snoqualmie, WA Snoqualmie Casino, 8:00 PM
• January 9 – Lincoln City, OR Chinook Winds Casino, 8:00 PM
• January 10 – Lincoln City, OR Chinook Winds Casino, 8:00 PM
• January 15 – Mahnomen, MN Shooting Star Casino, 8:00 PM
• January 16 – St. Charles, IL Pheasant Run , 6:00 PM
• February 7 – Orillia, Ontario, Canada Casino Rama, 9:00 PM
• February 27 – Plant City, FL Florida Strawberry Festival, 7:30 PM
• February 28 – Biloxi, MS IP Casino Resort and Spa, 8:00 PM

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Oh, watch out, Kel. He’s a rough little guy – even for a hockey player!

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Kellie Pickler may think she is being mysterious when she refuses to give a straight answer on the plastic surgery chatter, but even Scooby Doo could solve this mystery! On Ryan Seacrest’s radio show on Monday, Ryan asked about the breast augmentation rumors to which Kellie replied “Are you talking about my boobs again? Why are you looking at my boobs anyways, you pervert?” Of course, Ryan, who has had to battle Simon Cowell for six seasons was ready with a comeback: “I’m not looking at them, America is looking at them” and then straight-out asked her if she had a breast augmentation. She replied by saying “I don’t know. You know me, Ryan, I like to be the center of attention, and right now me and the girls, we are pretty much getting a lot of attention. I like to keep it a mystery. Let the mystery live on because as soon as I say yes or no then no one is going to care anymore.” She then added, “My hair was shorter so everything else looked bigger. I’m 20, my boobs are supposed to be perky.” Uh huh. By the way, the purple dress is the “before” and the blue dress is the “after.”

Life on the Road

Apparently, living on the road agrees with Kellie Pickler. She’s on tour with Brad Paisley and lives on a 45-foot tour bus that she shares with her tour manager, production manager and band mates.

In an interview with WCNC in Charlotte, North Carolina, Kellie said “I love living on a bus. Actually, it’s kind of weird. When we’re not on the road and I’m back home, I can’t even sleep in my bed. I just want to call the bus driver tell him to bring the bus so I can sleep in my bunk.” She sleeps on the bottom bunk and the only privacy is a sliding curtain. “Oh, I love it, it’s like my own little coffin. I’ve got my computer down here, phone and TV, but I don’t ever watch TV.” Apparently, she also has a blankie but left it at home for fear of losing it. The other opening acts traveling with Paisley, Taylor Swift and Jack Ingram, both have blue buses also which has caused for confusion for Kellie: “Every once in awhile I accidentally get on the wrong bus.”

Well, at least she’s cute, right?

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Time for four more to go home. I’m really read for the narrowing down of contestants and getting to the point where we can see more of the ones that can really sing. Special guest and former idol tonight will be Kellie Pickler.

WOW! Over 32,000,000 votes came in this week. Here are my picks for tonight’s losers:

Guys:

• Sanjaya Malakar
• Brandon Rogers

Girls:

• Alaina Alexander
• Antonella Barba

The group song tonight is “Joy to the World”, not the holiday themed song of the same title either. This is the one about Jeremiah being a bullfrog. These group songs don’t do much for me. Do you all like them? Let me know in the comments.

— Commercial Break —

Time to get rid of one of the guys! Let’s see who it will be???

After a little scare with Jared Cotter being asked to come down to the podium, IT’S NICK PEDRO GOING HOME!!! Another bad choice in my opinion, definitely not the worst singer that should be going home, but best of luck to you Nick for all your future endeavors.

Nick sings his exit song. Can’t stand them making these people sing after they’ve been voted off.

— Commercial Break —

Which of the girls will be going home? Hey! I got one right. Alaina is going home this week for the girls. It had better be Antonella Barba following her out later in the show.

And this is why they shouldn’t be asked to sing. Alaina is totally is emotional and can’t get through the song. It’s just not worth watching again. I’d rather see clips of their journey, including clips of their last song instead of hearing them try to sing it again live. That would be a much better tribute.

— Commercial Break —

Kellie Pickler shows up in a stunning blue dress and short, curly locks and what appears to be some other enhancements, but more on that later. Does a good job singing her song and is totally clicking with the country ballad. Is it just me, or does Kellie look about 15 years older than she did just a year ago? Even in the face, maybe it’s just too much make-up.

— Commercial Break —

Time to get rid of another guy. Although I think it should be Sanjaya, it comes down to him and AJ. Although AJ is a much better singer and performer, I’m not sure he’s going to go from one of the top vote getters last week to bottom of the barrel this week. We’ll see….and the loser is…….. A.J. Tabaldo!!! Sanjaya is totally shocked, along with A.J. and he’s being a great sport. Paula says that it’s a singing competition but tonight doesn’t reflect that.

— Commercial Break —

Ryan is rushing through the women’s results. Antonella, Leslie and Jordin are all asked to stand-up. I’d be okay with Antonella or Leslie going home, definitely not Jordin. Antonella MAKES IT ANOTHER WEEK! CRAP!

Jordin vs. Leslie…. and Leslie is going home tonight. Gina Glocksen is really torn up! I think they were very good friends and it shows.

The comments by the judges seem to be saying to the audience that they need to remember it’s a SINGING competition and that you need to vote for the people you want to keep hearing perform.

Hey look at that! They’re showing clips of all four people going home. Would have been much better to highlight each one of them individually after their votes.

Here are the results for those going home in Week #2:

Nick Pedro, A.J. Tabaldo, Alaina Alexander, Leslie Hunt

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Jory Steinberg starts off the individual performances again. No judge feedback. We just keep going. Not too bad.

Wow nobody really made much of an impression. Simon Cowell just sent the entire first set of 6 girls home. Let’s just put the pressure on the girls right out of the gate. Can you imagine being in the next set of girls going up to perform? Would it make that big of a difference on you or not? Are they just being hardcore out of the gate because there are so many girls?

— Commercial Break —

The first girl up Perla reminds me Mikaylah Gordon, mostly attitude with a little bit of talent to boot. Simon agrees, she’s personality over talent right now and that’s not good. The Army reservist, Rachel, didn’t make it and I think she could actually sing pretty well.

Baylie Brown, the next Carrie or Kellie is up now. She does have talent and she’s got charisma as well. Her voice is reminding me of the lead singer of Dixie Chicks, hopefully she’s not as political. Baylie moves forward again.

Remember the girl that lied to her dad about making the audition? She gets sent home too, but she said she’s already a winner because she made her parents proud.

One girl, Nicole, argues with her mom about the song she wants to sing. She finally caves in on stage and sings the song her mom wanted her to and she didn’t make it through. Her mom then came on stage and let the judges know the reason her daughter sang the song. It didn’t go very far with Simon because he said it wasn’t the song that made the difference. I understand what Nicole was saying though that not “feeling” the song impacts how your sing and perform the song as well.

More girls make it and more girls head home. Up next after the commercial break will be the guys.

— Commercial Break —

Brian Miller starts it off for the guys. At only 19 years of age, he’s got lots of talent. The only problem I have is that he’s singing the same song he did in the original auditions.

Jarrod Fowler, Navy Officer, does a good job as well and puts it out there by singing “You Raise Me Up” by Josh Groban. Maybe he shouldn’t have, he didn’t make it through.

Matt Sato makes it three in a row. The guys are nailing things down much more effectively than the women did on the first day in Hollywood. Matt makes it through again.

Lots more guys make it through that I wanted to see continue, although they didn’t show their performances. Guys with good personalities and charisma. It will be interesting to see how everyone does during group night, which is what we’ve got coming after the commercial break.

— Commercial Break —
(Okay, I’ve got to say I just saw a commercial that had more business being on TV during the Superbowl than any other commercial I saw a few weeks ago. It was a commercial from Domino’s Pizza where guys are arguing over the smell and taste of the pizza. The guy arguing for smell has a HUGE nose and the guy arguing for taste has a LARGE mouth. Then a guy appears and says “look at the cheese” and he’s got eyes like the one contestant from American Idol that Simon said looked like a monkey. Then there’s a guy outside mowing the yard that says “that sounds good” and has large ears of course.)

Odd for this show is that they let the people pick their own groups. And it turns out just like picking teams at recess, some people getting left out. People are wishing they picked differently now.

Some groups still practicing of course, any group that’s aren’t still practicing are stupid.

I still can’t believe these people struggle with the lyrics. Send somebody to the phone and have them call a friend to look up the lyrics online and fax them to the front desk.

Group dynamics are so much fun. One of the reasons I’m a big fan of Survivor. Can’t wait to see how these things we’ve been teased about show up on stage in front of the judges.

— Commercial Break —

HOW IN THE WORLD DO YOU NOT MEMORIZE THE WORDS! How can you make it that far and not memorize the words.

The group of four guys with the beatboxer need to quit now and just go off on their own group now and start selling records.

Mr. Chest Hair recovered himself fairly well. Jason makes it through but his partners don’t and he’s the one that forgot their lyrics.

Baylie forgets her words. That’s too bad, she’s not going to recover from the judges on this one regardless of the commercial appeal Simon said she had in her first audition. Her two partners were the two friends Antonella and Amanda. The friend, Antonella, that didn’t think she was as good as her friend, Amanda, is the one that’s going to make it. I called it, Baylie goes home. The blonde stuck up rich girl, Amanda, made some comment about her making it through because God likes good people, needs to lose and lose HARD! Her attitude is horrible and I don’t care if she can sing like Mariah Carey she needs to go home. Her friend on the other hand has talent and personality and would probably be twice the person she is if she stopped hanging out with the other girl.

In the clips of other people that don’t make it through, the long haired and bearded guy didn’t make it through either. It would have been interesting to see how he would have done if he went further through.

— Commercial Break —

The judges are playing shuffle with the Polaroids of the contestants and divide them into three rooms. We’ll see which room makes it. I’m very happy. The little snotty girl, Amanda, was in the room that got cut. The only sad part for me is that she didn’t have the chance to get singled out on stage and made to look like an idiot. Best of luck to Antonella though, I truly do wish her the best.

It’s down to 12 guys and 12 girls. Let the real fun begin!

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Jennifer Hudson on going from “Idol” reject to Golden Globe winner, and now Oscar-nominated “Dreamgirl.” Plus, last year’s “American Idol” runner up Katharine McPhee.

Visit the official website for more information and a link to e-mail your questions to Larry for the show.

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What were the most popular posts on this site in the 9 months of our existence? This is the list that will give you that information. Here it is, the Top 10 Posts of 2006:

1. DialIdol’s Predictions
2. Tamyra Gray Gets Badd Singer and Sexed Up
3. Paris Bennett Audition
4. Do You Hate Kellie Pickler
5. It’s Not Over By Daughtry
6. My Aiken Braiken Book Deal
7. Would the Real Music Genius Please Stand Up?
8. Simon Cowell Likes Bianca Ryan
9. Top 6 Live Blogging
10. And We’re Off

What’s in store for 2007? We’re only two-weeks away from the start of Season 6. There will be more and more news to come from the new show as well as keeping in touch with what’s happening with the past idols. Join us for what’s going to be a great year with b5media and Idol Stalker!

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Kellie Pickler now has her own sweepstakes to go along with her new “Small Town Girl” album.

Here are some of the details:

• Free roundtrip coach airfare for two.
• Hotel accommodations in Minneapolis for 3 days/2 nights.
• Roundtrip shuttle transportation between the Airport and the Hotel.
• $250 shopping money for use at the Mall of America.
• And you’ll see Kellie perform live and meet her at the Mall of America!

Granted, I’ve never been to Minneapolis, but I’d think we could have done a little bit better on the location of a sweepstakes don’t you?

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