Yep, tonight is Inside Idol, who knows what will be screened, but whatever it is we'll get to see more of our 13 finalists than we have since the gig started...

Yippee for us!

Wildcard Recap:
Even before the curtains were raised for the Wildcard Verdict the stress and tension was apparent, tears from Roxane and James and others as the wildcards waited to learn if their performances from the other night would pay off.

After James was named the three stooges did a happy dance together with James wondering what happened to the three amigos…

Roxane was stressing out behind the scenes trying to keep it together, her friend Chris Luder was also backstage stressing about the decision that could rock her life. As the verdict was read we saw how Chris was disappointed by the vote, but as the judges told the world of their decision to let someone else through you could see him starting to pep up.

Backstage Dan Spillaine spoke about how bitter sweet it was to get voted through, knowing that it came at the cost of Roxane making it through. He then talked about how cool it was when the judges told everyone of their decision to let her through, that made his day...

And backstage the rest of the wildcards were teary, Irene in particular was rather upset that she didn’t make it through.

Idol HQ
After the top 13 were announced the crew piled into their limo’s and drove to Idol HQ for a party. Everyone seemed to be cheery and stunned by how beautiful of the house is. Natalie was playing the piano saying that there’s no word to describe how happy she is, while James was hunting for his dip that someone’s stolen… it’s all about food.

James however has started to stress out about the beetroot that’d been spilt on the brand new carpet…

As the idols started to settled in they found their way to the piano and to the lift… yes, this 3 story house has a lift installed… and a pool and a spa…

Then there came the rush to the bedrooms…

James announced that the fight had started which resulted in everyone barging their ways down the stairs to find the room of choice. It seems that Milly, Kate and Tarni kicked Lee Harding out of his room of choice… the one with the biggest bathroom and the spa…

Laura’s found herself in her own room, she likes the time to herself and so she’s locked herself away while Emily and Roxane are talking about how much of a disaster it’ll be with there only being 1 bathroom between 4 girls and two boys… the two boys are Daniel and Chris who have made themselves housemates.

Lee, James and Dan have entered their room, surprised by the single beds they whinge that at the hotel they had king size beds and at home they usually sleep in queen sized beds.

As everyone opens their gifts and welcome home packages Emily, Tarni and others are starting to add photos to their rooms and Chris Luder is hanging out his clothes and unpacking his gear… would you believe that he brought a two bar heater?

The Toast of the Town
The morning after the verdict and the subsequent party Dan, Roxane, Emily and James hit the boardwalk for their photo shoot and media interviews. James acted it up and had some fun while the photographer couldn’t stop talking about how gorgeous she is. Dan apparently was easy to take photos of, he was fairly picky about his clothes, he said that he loves clothes… Emily took some time to warm up for the cameras…

But not as much time as it took for the others back at HQ to wake up.

Back at HQ…
The rest of the crew took a while to wake up, but once they’d woke up they were provided a hearty breakfast before talking about how cool the house is and starting another argument about what group of three made it into the larger room first…

Not much long after that the Idols headed to their vocal workshops…

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