It was last night and Tony Hadley did win! YAY!!! Michelle Gayle performed pretty well, considering she must have known she had no chance
But Tony Hadley? WOW! Incredible! He knew he had to thrash her, to prove a point. And thrash her he did! He sang 'Through the Barricades'! One of my all time favourite songs and boy did he do it justice! It was awesome. Tony also sang 'Walking in Memphis' and 'Mack the knife'
They each had to sing 3 songs with one of those songs being one of their own hits. Michelle sang her song 'Sweetness' which I must confess I actually went and bought when it was released :o And she also sang 'Love me Tender' and 'Say a little prayer for you' (not sure if that is the correct title? Think it was a Dionne Warwick song?)
It was a really good show, far better than any of the embarrassing previous heats in US, where the american audience obviously just couldn't handle Davina's pathetic attempts at humour (I found this really cringeworthy!) They also had a live band last night - far better than those crappy backing tracks they were using before. The sound quality was far superior too, which was great but I think this should have been done for all the shows - it seemed such a cheap, low budget thing for all the heats and I don't think it gave the US audience an opportunity to see the contestants in their true glory.
But for me, the highlight of the night had to be Dollar's performance by far! It was the most $hite, embarrassing, hilarious thing I have ever seen (bar some similarly tacky cruise ship/holiday park duos!) I can only imagine that they felt annoyed at the fact that they were the only ones who didn't get to 're-sing' on the shows after being evicted (probably because being the first to be evicted, there was simply not enough time in the 60 minute show and as the weeks went by and the numbers of contestants decreased, they had to fill the show up somehow) I don't know who's idea it was to let them re-sing at the final (although I suspect that they kicked up a fuss, claiming unfairness and being singled out etc lol!!) but regardless it served to do two things:
1. They will always be remembered for being an embarrassing, $hite, naff duo!
2. Far from showing everyone what they were missing, it gave them a double humiliation, as no-one surely could have watched that tacky performance and thought, 'Hmmm I really wish I'd voted for Dollar now and not Sonia.....'
In my opinion, they should have backed out gracefully in the first week and prayed for an epidemic of 'global amnesia'!!! But no, they felt 'hard done by' and like overgrown spoilt brats, they obviously felt cheated! The funny thing is, it's like they just cannot accept that they haven't got any redeeming qualities to keep their old audiences interested, let alone attract a new younger one! How they ever got as far as they did all those years ago, will remain one of life's eternal mysteries! So now they have made themseves look like a laughing stock TWICE! How cool is that?
Wow! There I go again! Turned it into an almighty opinionated rant! As you can see, I take this all far too seriously lol! Oh well, you may be able to see for yourself, as all the previous shows were repeated some time during the week in the early hours of the morning on ITV1, so I am guessing this one will be too. Set your video and prepare to be stunned!
Nikki x
Reborn In The Usa? 
He is truly one of our greatest, yet most under-rated singers of our time! That's me done spouting off! But it had to be said lol!
