Ryan Seacrest in Tie Bar Teaser

A little before American Idol was due to broadcast to the East Coast, and those of us watching online, Ryan tweeted

RyanSeacrest: Tie bar it is

We were stoked! We love the tie bar, and we love how Ryan wears it a little higher than convention dictates. So when the show started, we were looking for the tie bar … and couldn’t see it! The stream quality isn’t great tonight, so we weren’t 100% certain if he’d just picked one the same colour as his tie and figured we’d wait for the show to air in Europe to check closely.

So first up was Danny Gokey, and when Ryan appeared at the end of his song … well here’s our MSN transcript of that moment:

was that there before?
he’s only just put that on!
tell me that wasn’t there before…
im losing it
[censored]
How could I miss that?! I was [censored] looking for it!!!

Fortunately Ryan explained on Twitter before simultaneous reports of tie bar-related hallucinations spread around Europe:

RyanSeacrest: Tie bar fell off just before show open haha…I put it on a few mins into the show. Oops

Thanks, Ryan, for taking time out to get the news that matters out to your followers!

We thought the show was pretty good, with our collective favourite (four votes out of five from those of us chatting while watching online) being Adam Lambert (the other vote went to Allison).

Great to see Adam get a standing ovation from Simon Cowell, and the song choice was perfect.

And how cute was Ryan’s baby photo!