IDOL Week 6: The Hottest IDOL is sent home!

The third time was not the charm for the very likable (and HOT) Stefano Langone, the wild card who got all the way to the Final 7 with two straight last-minute reprieves after finishing in the bottom three. “If it’s the end of the road, it’s the end of the road,” he shrugged to Ryan Seacrest as he stood alongside Jacob Lusk moments before the results were revealed. “I’ll keep fighting and pushing to where I want to go in my career.”


With a final performance of Stevie Wonder’s “Lately,” Langone proved how he got this far, with a confidence and smooth delivery that wowed his female fans, the biggest one J. Lo herself, who was in his corner from the beginning. The closing montage captures her calling him “amazing” and cooing, “I love you Stefano.”


At the end of the song, a visibly shaken Durbin hoisted Stefano up and the rest of the contestants crowded the stage for a group hug to celebrate their fallen “Idol.”

As this process goes further and further, to its inevitable crowning of a champion, our attachment to the contestants as individuals makes it all seem, well, real, the drama escalating, just as it does in the music business itself, a crazy competition to curry favor with the public.

On a side note: I learned my New Roommate knows the Seattle Bred, Stefano. We look forward to his homecoming! Let's hang out at the gym!