In the social pages of the Sunday Telegraph today it was revealed that Mark Spano who came third in this year’s Australian Idol will not be signed up by Sony BMG.

Mark Spano who had a lot of female’s heart a flutter when he sang Kings of Leon’s megahit Sex On Fire must not be seen as a hitmaker for the recording monolith.

However he can be consoled that he has the support act on the upcoming Chris Isaak tour. For those who missed his performance at the final here it is.

In other Mark Spano news Ricki-Lee Coulter has denied she moved to Melbourne to be near him, apparently they are just friends.

However Ricki-Lee won’t be spending a lot of time in the southern city as she will be in LA working on her new album. This also means she will not be back for next season’s Australian Idol. I cannot really decide whether that is a positive or negative thing.

In an article in Woman’s Day Ricki-Lee reveals why she left her husband. She said she fell out of love with him and they wanted different things.

“I started to fall out of love with him and I wasn’t happy in the end,” she says, fighting back tears. “But it was still hard for us to end it.”

It is easy to forget how young she is – as she is only 22. Far too young to be hooked into marriage.

After the Aria’s there was speculation that Ricki-Lee and Teale Jakubenko, a contestant from this year’s Idol had something going on. Previous post on that story here.

UPDATE: In the full article in Woman’s Day Ricki-Lee denies any romance with Teale. She said it would be wrong as she mentors the Idol contestants.

Ricky-Lee Coulter To Be A Divorcee at the age of 22.
The men in Australia will be rejoicing today now it has been revealed her marriage to Jamie Babbington is over. Ricky-Lee’s publicist cited “distance and time apart” for the split. Ricky-Lee moved to Sydney to be a co-host on Australian Idol.

The couple were together for seven years. So she must have been 15 and he was 24 when they started going out. I am not sure what I think of that.

Full story on Daily Tele.

So You Think You Can Dance Australia auditions in Brisbane Today
Brisvegas dancers were out in force today for the auditions of SYTYCD Au. Season 1 winner Jack Chambers was from Brisbane, he will be permanently moving to New York in March. Part of his prize money has gone towards buying an apartment on the Upper West Side. Nacho Pop and Jack were also at the auditions today.

Brisbane Times has more details.

Charlotte Dawson’s Boyfriend Is Doing Jail Time.
Now what is it with Next Top Model judge Charlotte Dawson and her propensity for men who have difficulties with the law. Her former husband Scott Miller currently has drug charges laid against him, and her current squeeze Matthew Rodin just spent the night in jail on fraud charges.

$100,000 is required to get him out of jail. Now Charlotte seems like a sensible woman she needs to ditch this guy and fast. Does she really want to be schleping to Long Bay Jail each weekend if he is convicted? The charges relate to a $7.5 million fraud.

The Australian has the full yarn.

America’s Next Top Model Cycle 12 Spoiler Alert.
NY Mag has a little article saying the overseas trip for the Cycle 12 models is in Sao Paulo.