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American Idol 5

Paris Bennett leaves Idol but is joined in the bottom two by Elliott Yamin

After “almost 45 and a half million votes” were cast on American Idol 5 on Tuesday, Paris Bennett went home. She was joined in the bottom two by Elliott Yamin.

The results show was rather uneventful, except for some weird lighting design that caused the finalists to be bathed in blue light while they were waiting to hear if they were safe or not, temporarily turning them into Smurfs, and for a weird comment Ryan Seacrest made to Taylor after a break. “I can never wear shoulder pads again after seeing that, Taylor,” he said.

Simon Cowell also referred to the survey that said he was the most-respected judge, although he totally misquoted it. Talking about his popularity, he said, “I thought 78 percent was low,” Simon said. But the 78 percent was actually and ironically the number of people who don’t vote, not the percent who value his opinion the most (24).

Next week, the final four will perform Elvis Presley songs, after traveling to Graceland this week to tour Graceland with Priscilla and work with “ruthless and callous” music industry personality Tommy Mottola.