On Air with Ryan Seacrest 2009-02-17
Ahead of the first American Idol live show, Ryan asked Paula Abdul if this would be her last season and talked to Tyson Ritter of the All American Rejects about their cover of Britney’s Womanizer (which is pants … they should stick with stuff like the awesome ‘Gives You Hell’!) Sorry Guys, but Britney’s version rocks. Ryan asked Tyson whether he had really been born at a Van Halen concert because it sounded like a wind up. Apparently there is some truth, as his mother went into labour listening to ‘Jump’ and he was born on the way to hospital, but he said he didn’t actually pop out into Eddie van Halen’s arms.
Paula Abdul isn’t the only girl on the American Idol judging panel now, but Ryan asked her whether she felt like one of the guys after eight years with Simon, Randy and him and suggested she should join their Tuesday night dinners. Paula’s jewellery line, as advertised by Tatiana on last week’s Hollywood episode has had a 750% growth in sales since the show, so Simon was right, as usual … Paula might not have intended to get in some advertising, but a bit of product placement works wonders. Paula’s contract on American Idol is up for renewal this season, but it sounds like she wants to continue.
Continuing with the American Idol theme, Ryan and Ellen were showing some love for Simon Cowell in the sleaze, talking about him causing stampedes at the Britain’s Got Talent auditions. Having been at and around Britain’s Got Talent auditions, I can absolutely confirm this. There’s definitely Simon Cowell mania — teenagers through to oldies, girls and not a few boys. Everyone loves Simon! Classic quote has to be from Ellen: “So now that Simon is single, is he really beating off the women?” We sniggered right along with Ryan, but how do we interpret his “I hope so!”? I’d say rumours start that way, but those particular rumours are getting old already.
Also in the gossip was an update about Chris Brown from Ken Baker at E! to say that the DA’s office is still gathering evidence against Chris Brown and will continue to do so until March 5th. He said that people are saying that the apology from Chris Brown doesn’t make it clear what he’s saying sorry for. Ryan pointed out that Chris Brown probably can’t say too much at the moment and that “he must have been going nuts”. Ryan sounds a bit choked every time he talks about the Chris Brown/Rihanna case. It sounds like he doesn’t want to believe things are how they’ve been reported so far and is holding off saying too much until the facts are known. Ryan and Ellen talked about the rumours that Benji Madden and Katy Perry had been ‘bumping uglies’ and Ryan pointed out that anything Katy Perry says should be taken with a pinch of salt. Spoilsport! It’s more fun if people take her literally and we can sit back and watch the rumours roll around the net. The topic of the Beckhams’ move to Italy came up again and apparently David is willing to buy himself out of his contract and he’s convinced Victoria to move.
Ryan continued talking about promise rings (which he still seems to be confusing with purity rings, much to our amusement. I get the feeling that while he thinks promise rings are worthless because they’re just buying time, he doesn’t get purity rings at all — probably too alien a concept!) I loved Ryan putting the caller on the spot, asking why he didn’t propose … and why if it was too early to know he wanted to propose, why he would give a promise ring. Ryan is so mean, in a good way. He’s right though.
