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'American Idol' Elvis week live: Ryan Seacrest dances while Tim Urban sings
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Zap2it's weekly "Dispatches from Inside the 'Idol' Dome" brings
fanatics like you (and us) closer to all the action. What didn't viewers
see on the TV broadcast? We got it covered."American Idol" Elvis week came complete with some Katie-loving librarians, Ryan Seacrest dancing with Michael Sarver and an insane cafeteria lady desperate for attention and/or a t-shirt, bag or iPod touch. What else was happening off-camera?
Signs, signs, everywhere signs...
- The best sign of the night was a tie between "Librarians [heart] Katie Stevens" and "Eve [heart] Adam."
- The first one inspires so many questions -- why do librarians love Katie? Is it just librarians or does that extend to other book-related occupations? Is it because she looks like that kiss-up good girl in high school who always came to librarians for help on her term papers?
- And the other sign is awesome because who doesn't love a little Biblical humor?
Celebs!
- The fervor surrounding the "Glee" cast was crazy. Debbie the Stage Manager had to keep commanding the mosh pit guests to turn around and pay attention to the stage.
- Matthew Morrison loved Lee Dewyze's "A Little Less Conversation." He was bopping around in his seat like he could barely contain himself.
- Tina Cohen-Chang (Jenna Ushkowitz on "Glee") has the coolest heart tattoo on her left shoulder blade. One half of it is an upside-down treble clef.
- Lauri Waring Peterson of "The Real Housewives of Orange County" was in the house. You don't know who she is? Neither did 95% of the "Idol" audience so don't sweat it. We got bumped from our seat so that two people she brought with her could sit together (our seat made two seats together and we took a single in the next row down). All we have to say about whomever this girl is who bumped us from our seat is that her skirt was so short we could've performed her yearly exam, ifyaknowwhatwemean.
The Judgery and Seacrest
- After the judges were introduced, Kara practically flew into Adam Lambert's arms and Simon was right on her heels to shake Adam's hand.
- During the first commercial break, Simon's fiancee and "Idol" makeup artist Mezghan Hussainy, ran out from backstage and gave both Adam and his mom big hugs.
- The Brian Dunkleman crack got big applause from both Simon and Randy. Hard to tell if it was sincere or sarcastic.
- During Tim Urban's performance, Ryan Seacrest was slow dancing with some dude. He said it was Michael Sarver but it didn't look like Sarver to us. On the other hand, why would Seacrest be dancing with a random dude and then say that's who it was? Either way, it made Tim Urban (a.k.a. "Turban" now) look quite uncomfortable and seemed out-of-character for Seacrest. The judges were laughing so hard and poor Tim just had to keep performing. We were very upset for him.
Speaking of shenanigans...
- Cory the Warm-up Host was up to his usual do-gooder activities by handing out t-shirts and bags and iPod touches and Samsung Mystics to kids in the audience, which is great.
- Unfortunately, a very annoying woman sitting right in front of us kept screaming for Cory to come over, kept announcing that she's a lunch lady and got really mad when Cory didn't give her anything. He finally came back to give her a Samsung Mystic and we're pretty sure it was so she didn't snap and kill us all.
- Cory has these questions he likes to ask the little kids in the audience and one of them is "Do you want us to find you a boyfriend/girlfriend in the audience?" They usually giggle and say no. But not 6-year-old Katherine from Massachusetts. No sirree, Katherine gave a very enthusiastic "YES!," which may have actually flustered Cory for a second. Meanwhile, we'd like to take Katherine out for a drink in 15 years because she rocks.
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You're the sole host now Ryan, we get it. Eight years later and you're still gloating about it and taking shots at "The Dunk".
Pretty low of you Ryan.
Actually, I think he needs a co-host. Ellen could have served better in that capacity.
Awww, the Adam love was sweet.
I saw Ryan dancing with some guy (whoever it was) in the background. I thought it was embarrassing for Ryan and extremely disrespectful of Tim. It completely took away from the mood Tim was trying to establish with what I thought was a beautiful performance. I was angry for Tim.
Ryan Seacrest deserves to be fired today...on the spot. He has reached new depths of disrespect, arrogance, unprofessionalism, and downright unwelcome-ness in our living rooms.
Get him off our TV screens, FOX.
I love Ryan. He is a nice guy, but I have never seen him acting this weird before. Maybe he is having some of what Paula used to take. Don't know...
For the past few weeks, a lot of people gave been complaining about Ryan's odd behavior. Last night, he was just plain rude. It was a cheap shot to make fun of Dunkleman. And it was distracting for him to dance with that audience member during Tim's performance. He even called Tim "Turban" in his intro. I'm glad Tim ignored all of Ryan's antics. Maybe they should fire Ryan and let Ellen be the host!
Ok firsthand Dunkleman made a Seacrest joke recently so that is why he used it. Ever listen to Ryan's show? A lot was explained on there. I thought the whole show was entertaining and secondly Ryan DID apologize to Tim per radio.
Yeah that was not Michael Sarver... It was me... and it was very interesting to say the least...
What's up with Ryan? Is he gay?
There is so many hints that he is, I'm just curious.
Just like finding out Ricky Martin in gay....this is not a shocker to see him dancing with another dude, not to mention his other odd behaviors!! I agree with all of you, VERY RUDE AND DISRESPECTFUL of him to ruin Tim's preformance. Every contestant deserves the same respect during their time on stage, and this way a low blow for him to throw!! He needs to GO!!!