Candice Foo... Meryl Joan Lee... Fiona Xie... and now MJ Kuok. What do they have in common? They are all QUITTERS.
Just when you thought that all is well with the Top 13 for the already heavily criticized Singapore Idol 3, another bombshell had dropped. MJ Kuok had done a "Candice Foo" (remember her from SI 1?), or rather a "Fiona Xie", by pulling out from the competition less than 48 hours after the 2nd Piano Show... the first guy to pull such a stunt. He could not be reached for comment, but it's believe he did it due to 'personal reasons'... perhaps it's due to the pressure of him, a powerful tycoon's grandson, being in the competition? Heck, MJ isn't even Singaporean to begin with... he's MALAYSIAN!!
This latest news is probably not so surprising, given the fact that contestants in past seasons had done the same thing. Candice Foo pulled out from Season 1 Spectaculars at the very last minute due to "financial difficulties"... and had to bear the humiliation of being labelled a "sore quitter" and a "has-been" in years to come. Meryl Joan Lee's case for quitting wasn't so serious, since it took place before the Wildcard rounds of Season 2. There was even a brief video montage providing Meryl's farewell message and apologies to her supporters. It is public knowledge that Meryl quit mostly due to the fact that her A levels were approaching, but then there was a bit of speculation that she 'may not have gotten along well with some of the other contestants'. By the time we got to the results of the Wildcard Round, there wasn't any more news about Meryl. Too bad no replacement was announced for the Wildcard Round... which kinda sucks huh.
And back to the topic of nationality... the surprise 13th contestant Mae Sta Maria isn't Singaporean either... in truth, she is actually Australian!! I am personally very surprised how come non-Singaporeans can be allowed to take part in this contest in first place (or any other contest for that matter, hmmm). Whatever the case, I hope you viewers don't get too surprised if Mae is among the first to be booted out... the same thing happened to Jeassea Thyidor in the very first Spectacular Round for Season 1. Although Jeassea was a much better singer than the constipated and weak Jerry Ong, she lost out by a mere 200 votes, mostly due to the fact that she's been in Singapore for only 2 years at that time (and she was actually a Canadian).
Thankfully, the producers learnt their lesson from the past 2 seasons... and so they made the wisest decision by to naming MJ's replacement... that's none other than the "7-Eleven gal" Nurul Huda. Fans of this cutie pie can rejoice at this glorious moment. So now it's 7 girls and 6 guys in the Final 13... can look forward to their first Spectacular Round. But I am most certainly NOT gonna watch all of their performances; matter of fact, I might be switching channel when it comes to those 3 inglourious basterds. In the form of SS, DH and JJ... urggghhhhh, can't stand them!! :-(((
Speaking about inglourious basterds, it's a huge shame that Andy Lau had to be in the headlines for the wrong reasons... for remaining hush-hush over his secret marriage to longtime beau Carol Choo, and then being forced to reveal everything. Little surprise then that there has to be the huge caption "WAH LAU" in the front cover of this week's 8 days. There's still probably a chance for the Heavenly King to redeem himself while he tries to dodge the continuous ammunition (aka harrassments) from the pesky paparazzi. All he could do now is remain solemn and downcast in this rather troubling time... it's quite obvious that he had been trying very hard to keep his marital status at low key standard, and all it took was a huge-scale funeral of his father-in-law in the midst of Malaysia to blow the whole truth all over. And we're still not sure whether to believe Andy when he explained that the 2 kids present with him and Carol are not theirs...
Another inglourious basterd that has to be mentioned is that bigtime jerk KANYE WEST. Who would have thought that he had to resort to his bloody attention-seeking ways... I seriously wonder what force of nature other than cognac would drive this half-drunk loser to ruin Taylor Swift's acceptance speech for "Best Female Video" during the 2009 MTV Music Awards last Sunday, jumping onto stage and declaring that Beyonce should have won the award. And with that, Kanye got banned from the remainder of the show... ha ha, loser!! Towards the end of the night, Beyonce did a sweet and gracious thing by calling out Taylor to finish her acceptance speech, right after receiving the Moon Man Video Award. KW's 2-time apologies in the days to come are probably not enough to redeem him from the mess he had gotten himself into... but come to think of it, he hadn't been slapped with 5 years of community service and a restraining order, like what happened to Chris Brown after he beat up his ex Rihanna. As the Justin Timberlake song goes, "What goes around, comes around."
Sigh, I seriously wonder why does such inglourious basterds have to exist in first place?? :-/
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