Liveblogging; Seven to Six

7 31 G smirks as he stands next to his newly returned boyfriend Mathieson and tells Luke, Chrislyn and Wes that they're safe. Mathieson wastes no time telling Teale and Sophie that they're Bottom Three and then makes G cry bitter angry stompy tears as he puts Mark into the B3 for the first time. You know why he's there? Because everyone in Australia who normally watches, MISSED HIS PERFORMANCE last night. Stupid early start time. This sucks. But he'll be fine. Right? RIGHT?

7 34 The Teale Jakubenko Insomnia Cure All Tour of 2008 continues as he recroons his way through 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough'. I yawn my way through it. whatserface wants to know why Australia should keep him and he says we could all do good things together. Mathieson tells him he's finished. We can only hope, Jimmy.

7 36 Sophie Paterson's potentially second last performance on Idol is just a little bit cheery and she does that when she's B3, doesn't she? She gets very smile-y (she did the same thing last week with her repeat perf of 'Ana's Song') and 'Papa Was A Rollin' Stone' ain't a really terribly happy song. She sings it remarkably similarly to last night, but with slightly better pitch. whatserface tells her she looks hot and they giggle girlishly about Sophie being in the B3 again. Sophie looks resigned to going home.

7 38 G manhandles his boy, Mark Spano to centre stage so he can re-sing 'Keep Me Hangin' On', sans awesome hand movements. He kicks it nicely, but the voice sounds a bit rough. I suspect there was some serious drinking going on at the ARIAs. G chirps that it was a powerful performance from Mr Mark Spano and then, for real I am not making any of this up, can't take his freaking hands off the guy. They're in looooooove. Jimmy immediately does his best to seperate them.

7 42 Dicko is particularly surprised about Spanner being in the B3, Marcia is too but says also that Sophie's pitch was still not great and that Teale is sick but shouldn't let it show. I'm guessing he's also still hungover from last night. Kyle is horrified that Mark is B3 but gets why the other two are there. You guys, it's TOTALLY because he was first up and everyone missed his performance, I'm telling you. G gets Teale's number wrong but quickly corrects himself. Unsurprisingly, he does not get Mark's numbers wrong but there's a steely tone in his voice as he suddenly realises that in the next segment, he'll be stuck on the couch with the other Idols and won't be able to take his usual position sitting next to his boy. Mathieson rubs his hands with glee.

7 47 G sulks on the couch with Luke, Wes, Roshani (who SO should have been in the B3) and Chrislyn. He's one petulant lower lip away from refusing to read the teleprompter until Mark is back on the couch with him. Mathieson throws an arm around Spano (practically crowing at G) as he asks if it sucks going from the high of performing and the ARIAs to being B3. Unsurprisingly, Mark answers in the affirmative. He gets a call from Maggie in Melbourne who loves him slightly more than G does. G pouts a little more. If he makes it through to The Rolling Stones next week, he's going to be singing 'Angie'. Yum! Sign me up for some of that, thanks!

7 51 whatserface and Sophie (why does Sophie ALWAYS get Coulter??) talk about how Sophie's developed her style over the last month or so and Ricardo from Nowra wants to know if Sophie was going to be coming back to Aus if she hadn't gotten into Idol. He then also asks about The List, which we all covered last week with The Dread Pirate Pengilly and wants her to marry him. Mathieson dryly tells him to nick (fuck) off because "we've got Lava Life for that sort of thing."

7 53 Mathieson and Teale talk about throat infections and Teale knew he was going to be B3 again tonight so took it easy at the ARIAs. Mathieson is horrified that Teale's fan Jenny's question basically amounts to, "is your dad's brother Steve, I pashed him as a teenager?" There is much laughing and scared eyes from Teale over this turn of events.

7 55 The Cadbury's Performance and a Half is Chrislyn's hip swivelling scary-fying of John Foreman.

8 00 Previous Idols pick their faves : Jess Mauboy says Wes, Anthony Callea picks Chrislyn, Natalie Gauci and I are still on the same wavelength as she picks Mark, Axel Whitehead pimps for Wes and Damien Leith Irish's at us that "it's all coming down to the lads this year" and are you still reading my blog, Irish?! I made that call already. But you're not wrong. So long as things tonight go the right way, that is.

8 02 Luke seems to still be a little drunk from the ARIAs and got Kasey Chambers to cop to wanting a photo with him but not for her, for a friend (sure, Kasey, that's the excuse they all use). Roshani babbles about how well the previous Idols have done and how comforting that is and really? Because only Guy Sebastian was nominated at all last night, The Gauc didn't even sell enough singles to make Highest Selling Single nomination with the winner's single, and that's the first time that's happened. If a girl wins, she's toast, Roshani. She's crumpets, she's muffins, she might as well butter herself up, slap on some vegemite and then drop herself condiment side down onto the fluffy carpet of the music industry, because her career is likely going into the bin. That metaphor TOTALLY got away from me. G, staring down the barrel of losing his boyfriend Mark, sucks up to Mathieson about how awesome he was on the ARIAs and flutters his eyelashes.

8 06 Gabriella Cilmi can barely string a sentence together and seems constantly stoned. I'm sure she's not. (I'm sure she's not, Gabriella Cilmi's laywers, please stop sending me warrants.)

8 08 I can't even tell you how jealous I am that the Idols got to freaking meet Richard E Grant, I guarantee that most of them, possibly all of them, have no bloody idea who he is. He's Richard E fucking Grant. I can't even watch the segment, I'm so depressed by that. I mean, if they knew who he was, they would have shown at least one of them getting excited about meeting the guy from 'Withnail and I'. Or even 'Hudson Hawk', I don't ask much . . .

8 13 HotCarl!! HotCarl!! HotCarl needs a haircut but he's still remarkably HOT and talks about working with the Navy to get a new theme song or something, I don't know, I was too distracted by HOTCARL back on my show!! It does allow Mathieson to make a joke about Seaman Idol. And dude, I'd TOTALLY recap that show. G laughingly picks himself up off the floor, wags a naughty finger at Mathieson and goes to have a good lie down.

8 15 Gabriella Cilmi's latest completely forgettable single 'Save The Lies'. Urgh. At least, 'Sweet About Me' was catchy, this is just . . . awful.

8 19 whatserface TOWERS over John Foreman, who knew she was that tall? Squeaky Foreman is organising some singing thing with kids and I was too taken aback by the almost foot and a half of height she has on him to really pay attention, my GOD. She's a giantess. If I fire her, she's totally going to stomp on me with one of her giantess feet, isn't she?

8 24 Verdict time. Mathieson and G recap what the judges said and first person safe is . . . Teale??!! For real if Mark goes home, both G and I will be pissed and someone will pay, I tell you this now. G grits his teeth as we go to the break.

8 31 Kyle, Marcia and Dicko all think Spanner should stay, but Dicko has a horrible sinking feeling it's Mark. If he goes, can they override the decision?? whaterface would lose her mind if that happened. It might almost be worth it . . . no! I jest! Mathieson announces it's Sophie and for real, my heart was in my throat. He's okay, he's okay, he's okay. Ohhh Sophie. I liked you more than the other girls left. Mathieson jokes that they're not going to pay for the flight back to Heathrow.

8 33 Man, her original stuff is just great and her performance of The Stone's 'Satisfaction' was kick ASS. They show a third of INXS and La Lauper raving about her unique voice. Her last song is her BRILLIANT arrangement of The Potbelleez 'Don't Hold Back'. It highlights her bizarre pronunciation, the quaver, the mournful tones and I'd still buy this as a single.

8 37 G does a little dance of Both My Boyfriends Are Still On The Show as he officially announces that next week is Rolling Stones week (he doesn't care that his boyfriends already let that news out, he's just so happy they're both still there) - and there goes the opportunity to hear Sophie croon The Sundays' version of 'Wild Horses'. That would have been ace. Bye Soph!

TallulahBelle Out.