Jennifer Hudson won!

Also:

Ellen Degeneres did a great job, I think. She made me laugh.

Yay, Martin Scorsese!

Watching the post-show now…

Was it the deepest? The first round of eliminations had us saying goodbye to: Paul Kim, Amy Krebs, Nicole Tranquillo, and Rudy Cardenas.

All four of them were great singers- I think it was definitely a lack of popularity that got them.

Would it be extremely lazy of me to not write about tonight’s performances, and just say “Simon was right.”? Because he was. On every count.

I adored: Melinda Doolittle & Jordin Sparks. They can sing- they really, really can. Mostly everything else made me feel like I was in a Karaoke bar.

And Lakisha Jones: Oh. My. God. What an amazing singer!

The songs they sang:

• Alaina Alexander:  “Brass in Pocket”
• Amy Krebs:  “I Can’t Make You Love Me”
• Antonella Barba:  “I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing”
• Gina Glocksen:  “All By Myself”
• Haley Scarnato: “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now”
• Jordin Sparks: “Gimme One Reason”
• Lakisha Jones:  “And I Am Telling You, I’m Not Going”
• Leslie Hunt:  “(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman”
• Melinda Doolittle:  “Since You Been Gone”
• Nicole Tranquillo:  “Stay”
• Sabrina Sloan:  “Never Loved a Man The Way That I Love You”
• Stephanie Edwards:  “How Come You Don’t Call Me”

Here’s what they sang tonight:

• A.J. Tabaldo: “Never Too Much”
• Blake Lewis: “Somewhere Only We Know”
• Brandon Rogers: “Rock With You”
• Chris Richardson: “I Don’t Want to Be”
• Chris Sligh: “Typical”
• Jared Cotter: “Back at One”
• Nicholas Pedro: “Now and Forever”
• Paul Kim: “Careless Whisper”
• Phil Stacey: “I Could Not Ask For More”
• Rudy Cardenas: “Free Ride”
• Sanjaya Malakar: “Knocks Me Off My Feet”
• Sundance Head: “Nights in White Satin”

I wasn’t very impressed with the performances tonight, and was especially disappointed by Paul Kim, Sanjaya Malakar and Nicholas Pedro- three of my favorites I expected much, much more from.

But Chris Sligh was good. Please vote for him!

I’ll admit it: I love “all-stars” editions of reality shows. All my old favorites, back for more!

Amazing Race All-Stars started today, and I was hooked immediately. “More than 45,000 miles, spanning 5 continents in 28 days…” woohoo!

Who I’m rooting for this season: Oswald and Danny, who are adorable and make me laugh; Uichenna and Joyce, the sweetest couple; Rob and Amber, because I’m such a Survivor-holic; and Charla and Mirna and Dustin and Kandice, because they’re both all-girl teams.