January 24, 2008
And the elephant in the room ...
Oliver Highman and his pregnant wife. The entire episode was framed around this dude and his wife. Turns out she went into labor the day he was supposed to audition, but they gave him another chance the next day. Oliver is a sweetheart, and I assumed he would make it through since they gave him so much air time. Alas, he did not. He had "weird falsetto," according to Randy.
But, it didn't really matter to Oliver. He's got little Emma Grace to go home to. I think that's much better than Hollywood. Congrats to Oliver and his wife.
In all, 23 people are going to Hollywood from Charleston. I will say, though, that the South was not a hotbed for talent.
Comments
[January 24, 2008 10:24 AM]
LuluThe big surprise of the night was that big Randy guy and his sister. I thought they were going to be total bombs, and he was really good!
I agree that the talent was low in the South, but I found last night a bit more entertaining than the other nights.
My thing is: It used to be that the people who were really bad didn't know they were bad. Now I'm wondering how many are auditioning just so they can be featured as a bad contestant? Like the guy who took his shirt off.