Brooke White has a meltdown after what I can only imagine is an emotionally exhausting week in Hollywood. In this video clip, the “American Idol 7″ judges tell Brooke that she is a top 24 finalist.
In this “American Idol 7″ video clip, Simon plays a little head game with David Archuleta before telling him he’s made it through as a top 24 finalist.
Paula reminds Kristy Lee Cook that things will only get harder in the “American Idol 7″ competition — then gives her the good news that she’s made it through as a top 24 finalist.
Here’s one of those “send two guys in, but only choose one” scenarios — Colton Berry and Kyle Ensley are brought before the “American Idol 7″ judges and Colton Berry is given a yes, while Kyle Ensley didn’t make the top 24 finalist cut. Interestingly enough, Simon wanted Kyle to go through!
Anyone else think it’s strange that we haven’t gotten much of a backstory on Colton Berry yet?
Is it just me, or did you think that the “American Idol 7″ judges overdid it a bit on trying to trick Carly Smithson in this video clip? Way to get her all worked up, guys!
In the end, Carly Smithson was selected as a top 24 finalist.
Not a lot of fanfare when the “American Idol 7″ judges deliver the good news (as in, they didn’t try to fake him out) to David Cook in this video clip — he’s moving on as a top 24 finalist.
A lot of TV Crunch visitors have been commenting about what a talent Josiah Leming is and how they hoped he would make it to the American Idol 7 finals — tonight, we learned that Josiah Leming was not selected as a top 24 finalist.
Watch this tearful video clip of Josiah Leming’s rejection.

I, for one, couldn’t be happier to find out who (officially) made the cut for the “American Idol 7” top 24 finalists – sure, we’ve seen the spoilers online, but this is the official word from Randy, Simon and Paula.
So how close to the leaked spoiler list of American Idol top 24 finalists does the real list come? Dead on, exactly one and the same. Looks like the online spoiler was pretty accurate. Read the rest of this entry »