Category — Australian Idol

Jacob Butler who was on Season Five of Australian Idol continues to follow his musical dream with a single out called ‘Come My Way’. I was surprised Jacob Butler did not get further in the reality singing show contest.

Australian Idol winner Kate DeAraugo told the Sunday Telegraph that after she finished on Idol she had full body liposuction.

Doing that just sounds so painful. However her weight troubles have continued. She is now on the new reality show Excess Baggage which will be shown on Channel Nine in 2012.

She told the Sunday Telegraph:

DeAraugo, who sparked a wave of public support on the show when judge Kyle Sandilands said she had “tuckshop lady arms” in the 2005 season, had the procedure after the show.

“Nobody knew,” DeAraugo tells Insider on Queensland’s Whitehaven Beach, where she is currently filming Nine’s new reality body image show, Excess Baggage.

“It was full-body, some outrageous amount of incisions in my body and was just horrendous.”

The singer, 26, who currently weighs 100kg, said the pressure of her Idol win intensified the battle she’d suffered with her weight since age 15.

“I was in the spotlight, and I was hearing my career needed it. I put myself through liposuction because I thought that was the answer.

“There’s really nothing that I haven’t done to get skinny. I was always told life will be better when I’m thin. My weight has been something that’s that has traumatised me my whole life.”

DeAraugo released one solo album after winning Idol before joining The Young Divas, until 2008.

She signed with, then walked away from, Jenny Craig and her career went downhill. “It all turned to s***,” she explains. “I stopped working two years ago and decided to write and record an album, which has been waiting for 12 months.

“They can’t market it and I know it’s not my voice, it’s my look.”

It appears Kate never got much support from her management or record company after she won Australian Idol, however I think her issues for not having a successful career in music cannot not be all put down to her weight. She never had a lot of personality or star power, maybe Excess Baggage can revive her career.

Channel Ten launched their 2012 program last night, and the big surprise was they will be sticking with The Renovators for next year.

I think this a positive thing. The Renovators has the bones for the making of a great reality TV show. David Mott Network Ten’s Programming Director said: “So far the format has underperformed. But, it’s a brand we believe in so we are working directly with Shine to renovate THE RENOVATORS for 2011 and beyond.”

The Biggest Loser will be going back to the singles format rather then couples and families, but when they say singles they mean no boyfriend or girlfriend.

And of course Masterchef will return.

I know it is not reality TV show per se, but Young Talent Time will return, and the host will be former Australia Idol alumni Rob Mills. Do you agree with the choice of host? For some reason I am pretty excited about this but expect it has more to do with loving it when I was young. I hope they keep it a little bit cheesy.

Rob Mills has been working fairly consistently since his turn on Australian Idol so he must be thought of highly within the entertainment industry. Another Idol alumni who is pouring coffees between musical engagements is Matt Corby. Which is a pity as Matt is very talented, however I think fans may not have like on his last few weeks on the show that he was very negative about it. think he started believing his own hype.

What do you guys think?

The Junior Masterchef contract yarn was in the SMH today and I had to laugh that Max Markson said people should sign up to it. If you missed my blog post on my thoughts on the Junior Masterchef contract go here, and also it was a small part of a segment on Masterchef Australia on A Current Affair on Friday night.

Here is a column in The Age which talks about Renae from The Amazing Race Australia and how she is an unlikely beauty pageant contestant. Also reveals she is going out with one of the most eligible men in WA. Who would that be?

More information on the death of Australian Idol judge Jay Dee Springbett in the Daily Telegraph, it is looking more likely that he took his own life.

Gary Mehigan responds to what Masterchef Australia contestant Adam Quinn has been saying about producers and the show in the Daily Telegraph.

Kyle Sandilands thinks Project Runway Australia judge Megan Gale is a phony. Not sure what triggered off this attack. (Source: News.com.au)

Kumar is not coping with his cult status. (Source: Herald Sun)

Gordon Ramsay’s film bombs. (Source: Herald Sun)

Survivor’s Johnny Fairplay has split from his reality TV wife. (Source: Celebrity News and Style)

Australian Idol judge Jay Dee Springbett has been found dead in his hotel room in Sydney.

The Daily Telegraph writes he Sony boss Denis Handlin alerted police after he could not contact him. Circumstances are described as non-suspicious.

The daily tele states he may have lost his job last week. His relationship also broke down last year.

Jay Dee was a judge in the last season of Australian Idol.

If you had been wondering where Australia Idol’s winner Wes Carr’s second album was well we now have the answers.

The Daily Telegraph reports:

As the Qantas flight taxied down the Sydney runway, the anxiety disorder Carr had tried to ignore since recording his post-Idol debut record The Way The World Looks took over.

The 28-year-old singer-songwriter was on his way to Nashville last August to write songs when he told flight attendants he had to get off.

“I was having a full-blown panic attack, people were taking photos of me with their phones and I had to get off the plane. It was horrible,” he said.

Carr sought refuge and treatment on the North Coast for six weeks before heading back to work on his record late last year.

“I have always had problems with anxiety, even when I was a kid, but I swept it under the rug and adopted this persona of Wes Carr from Australian Idol,” he said.

And of course news of his anxiety disorder comes on the day his new single Been A Long Time hit the airwaves. I think talking about mental illness is important but I do get a bit cynical when this is used as a publicity hook to get news of his new single.

I must be having a very slow news day if I am reporting on Australian Idol alumni from four years ago….

However Marty Simpson is releasing an album called Exit. For those who have forgotten him, he was the guy with the eyebrows like Aggro.

He recorded a lot of it in the US.

The Daily Telegraph reported on this, however I think it was because model it girl of the moment Bambi Northwood-Blythe was is in the video.

I did a search on YouTube for him and found this original song from 2008, and have to say it is not bad at all.

Also here is one of his performances from Australian Idol.

In the wild rumours department, the Daily Telegraph reports that Jessica Mauboy is doing the horizontal folk dance with former Australian Idol judge Jay Dee Springbett.

Kyle Sandilands started the rumour, and of course Jessica is denying this shit.

Natalie Gauci winner of Australian Idol season six might have the last laugh.

She has constantly been described as the winner who went nowhere, and I don’t think Sony even released her album of her original songs.

Anyway not she is looking smoking hot, due to her new job as a personal trainer but she also has a new single out.

The Herald Sun reports:

The Elsternwick resident said she had waited three years to shed her Idol skin and release her first single, Dreamers, with new electro-pop band Tune In Tokyo.

“I am definitely back and doing things my way,” Gauci said.

After winning Idol in 2007, Gauci said she felt pushed and prodded by record label Sony after releasing the “obligatory” Idol album, Winner’s Journey.

So, she decided to pack her bags and do things on her own.

“Idol was like an arranged marriage. There were good days and bad days,” she said. “I didn’t get angry, just bossy, and I just followed my instincts.

“It has been three years exactly and I fought really hard to be totally free creatively and musically.”

After celebrating her 29th birthday yesterday with husband and singer Hamish Cowan, the laid-back songstress said next year was hers.

“I have so many things on the go,” Gauci said.

“I am working on my album with collaborator Paul Brandoli for Tune In Tokyo, a solo jazz pop album and I appear and sing in a new film, Big Mamma’s Boy, with Holly Valance, which comes out next year.”

Dreamers will be released on radio on Monday.

You go girl prove us all wrong.

UPDATE:

Anonymous kindly posted the link to the video on YouTube and OK Anon you are probably right I do need to re-think my theory.

Here is the clip if anyone is interested.

Australian Idol judge Marcia Hines has told the Daily Telegraph that it was wrong that Kyle Sandilands was sacked from the show last year. Kyle was dumped after he questioned a fourteen year old about her sex life on radio in front of her mother where she revealed she had been sexually assaulted.

Marcia said in the article:

“It was one of the most unfair things I’ve seen,” she said, of Kyle, who was sacked as a judge following a controversy on his radio show.

“He’s my buddy. I like Kyle. Kyle says what he wants to say. Most people are the same way but they’re not on TV. I was so bummed out that he was taken off the show.”

Hines said she agreed with popular opinion that new judge Jay Dee Springbett was boring.

“You said it, so I don’t need to repeat it,” she said. “Jay Dee and Dicko were too similar. There was no humour. That’s where Kyle came in.”

Marcia Hines in the article did not reveal what she thought her role on the show was.

Kyle’s TV career is continuing to thrive with a gig on Australia’s Got Talent, and the new X Factor.