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                Went to our first Idol finale on Monday and had an absolute ball. As my girlfriend Tanya and I walked the red carpet we were hounded for photos and autographs by screaming teenagers. I think they thought she was on home and away or something as I heard one kid say, “she looks so hot she must be a star”.

What a night! I got goosebumps when Lionel Richie hit the stage, Natalie Gauchi singing was incredible and seeing the Divynals back in action was fantastic. Cant say much for the technical side of the show, but these things happen, I know what thats like (BBro finale07!!) Natalie really deserved to win in my opinion, she wanted it more and was really passionate about her songwriting. After speaking to Mark Holden at the wrap party It was obvious that was why he hammered Matt Corby and made him cry. Poor sensitive pretty boy Matt is too young and alternative for the Idol comp. He was only there because of little girls voting for him and a neat trick where he can hold a note for a really long time. Natalie is a far better talent.

The after party at the opera house had crap alcohol, a shit DJ and too many people. Luckily on the way out I ran into my mate and Idol floor manager Michael Venables and Idol Exec Producer Greg Baness who let us into the staff only wrap party where Andrew G was DJ. My girl and I danced our arses off and played a special game of So you think you can dance/so you think you can kick me in the nuts. This is where I danced really silly overdone interpritave dance moves and she had to try to kick me in the nuts. It was quite funny to watch….Well….if you were drunk.

Tan, Ron and Paulini

GO LIONEL !!!!

Tan and Chris lilley

So at about 12.05 am on Thursday night/Friday morning I was at a bar in Sydney called De Nom about to drink a disgusting cocktail with fig’s and gin in it when I got a text from Tom the producer of the Kyle and Jackie O show. “Kyle is sick, can you please fill in from 4.30am tomorrow?”, was the brief message. Thank FCUK I didnt have to drink this stupid bloody cocktail, I thought, and went straight home to bed. So after about three hours sleep, we interviewed Mat and Nat the finalists of Idol, Craig David and Peter Costello on the eve of the election. Pretty full on and considering my TV show Friday Night Download was on that night against Funniest Home Videos. This was an extremely lucky opportunity to promote our show. It didn’t stop there as Kyle couldn’t do an MTV special with the Rogue Traders so I filled in for him there too. It was fun being him for a day thats for sure!

So the big Idol finale is on Sunday and Im going with my girlfriend Tanya for the first time.

Cant wait!……

MTV Rogue

Mike at the Footy PODCAST CLICK HERE

Me hangin with Bossy from Nova, Hinksy from 97.3 FM and a pissed promo chick….

Melbourne V Brisbane at Suncorp…..

Soccer fans got the better of me…….or was it the beer promo girl!??!?

Well last night was big! Got to network ten and realised my pants were split in the crouch area.

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Not good. Luckily they have full time wardrobe people there who fixed them for me. So I’m standing in channel Ten wardrobe with no pants on and in walks Ready Steady Cook host Peter Everett also with no pants on. Was quite weird. People must be walking around that place with no pants on all the time.
Got to the Launch and was lead to my own little stage with a stinky old Big Brother chair on it for me to sit on and get photos with people. Fun! They had some chick with a mirror ball suit on that fired lazers into the audience to give a razzle dazzle vibe. I felt like I was at a big gay dance party. The TEN 2008 promo reel played and I was on it a fair bit. Found out Friday Night Download is coming back, heaps of cool US shows and the usual Idol, dance and loser shows. Hung out with AJ from Loser and Bree at the Fox and lion after. Think I had one too many cause after that it was a messy pub crawl with an old buddy called Condor. Okay no more posting till monday!

Im in Sydney this week for the Network Ten Programme launch where apparantly Delta Goodrem is playing.
This is basically a big pump up to the customers, clients and media who help make TEN the best TV station in the country.
Im also here for the latest Friday Night Download episodes, among other things.
Going really well this one, people are loving it!
We’re having Kyle and Jaqui O on the show this week to promo the next series of BB.
We have some audition tapes to show that are quite scary.
Bree and Frysie will also be having a crack at the world record for putting on as many pairs of undies as you can in one minute.
Make sure you watch 7.30 this Friday night!
Went shopping in Oxford street today and a lady called Liz read my cards after I bought 4 pairs of shoes from her at some Italian shoe clearance place near ed hardy. I drew the card Knight of Fire!!!! All about doing what you want when you want and unleashing yourself like a firey storm on whatever you want to do. So look out!
Got the Australian Idol final on Sunday, which should be a hoot!
Will fill you in on the goss monday….

Style was not a class offered at my school…..

Okay so today Im up at 5.30 to do interviews for our little show, Friday Night Download. Nova Brisbane, B105, 2Day FM Sydney with Kyle and Jaqui O among others. All went swimmingly as usual until I used my mates phone to talk to 2Day. My signal was crap so I used his. Little did I know that the slightest touch would hang up his stupid phone! Bugger! That was live on air and they were the highest rating and probably the most important interview of the day!!!!! Talked to them for ten minutes on big brother and didn’t even get to mention FND which totally sucked. Anyhoo, on my way to River 949 in brisbane to host the show with my Bro Jay, who’s name is Goldie on air.

Tune in if you can!