Let me get this out of the way. Paula Abdul is on drugs and has sex with contestants. Simon Cowell is mean spirited and makes a lot of money. Randy Jackson had his stomach stapled. Some of the contestants were gay and others starred in porn or were arrested for things like drunk driving, beating up girls and getting in bar fights. Now you don’t have watch and can stick to the action on the stage. Anthony Fedorov absolutely saved himself from elimination this week with a Celine Dion tune “I Surrender” and we gave him his highest score since the opening week of the male semifinals. We had differing opinions on Constantine Maroulis, who sang Nickelback’s “To Remind Me” which I thought was a solid performance and my other half didn’t like because she felt it was a poor rendition. The net result is he won’t be anywhere near the bottom. Bo Bice looked as if he just stepped out of a bad Tarantino movie and while he has been pretty good lately he will have to step it up to keep his butt of the elimination fire.

Carrie Underwood struggled a bit this week with a Martina McBride song and I believe she is sick which would explain it. With so many southern voters behind her she should be able to weather the storm though. Vonzell Solomon took on Christina Aguilera’s “I Turn to You” and was just ordinary which doesn’t cut it in the final 6. Scott Savol seems ready to mercifully exit as this season’s party guest who stuck around way too long after he closed the show with another dismal outing.

WHO’S OUT? With Anthony singing his way out of elimination and maybe the bottom 3, the path is cleared for Simon’s projection that Scott will go home about six weeks after he should have. To be honest I think everyone is subject to being in the bottom this week, but the Carrie and Constantine voting public won’t have it. I think Anthony is the first safe and and Vonzell sweats out elimination even with the entire black vote backing her. Scott’s black too but it won’t help him. He’s not black? Oh that’s right he just acts that way.