I've gone through all the details from tonight's verdict, but first we need to announce that Australian Idol decided on a TOP 13 tonight after the Judges chose two of the weirdest people to send through to the finals as their wildcards... Emily and James!

And after the public were split choosing Dan over Roxane by less than 1% of the votes!!!

Yes, that's right, Mark, Marcia and Kyle chose to put two people through that clearly did not deserve it and when watching Roxane and Daniel who were most popular people on public vote served up a PILE OF UTTER CRAP about how bad they feel and blaming the decision on the Australian public... Although only seconds beforehand they'd decided to not put them through in favour for Emily and James...

***VOTING NOW OPEN - Voting Information***

Gday everyone, tonight's the final night of the semi finals, after tonight we'll know who is in the top 12 and we'll begin to forget about who is out from the top 30...

Sure, a number of people will be distressed, some might feel like their heart's been torn out, but the truth is that after tonight everyone who has come before will be wiped from our collective minds.

For tonight is the last chance for some and the only chance for others, tonight the hopefulls will sing for their supper and the name of the game is do or die. Those that can't live up to the preassure will undoubtedly meet their maker as the Judges dish out their judgements and those who deliver orgasmic performances may be lucky enough to find that they've been pushed out of idol obscurity into the top 12...

• Chloe Zuel - Will be singing Come On Over

This chick is cute and hot… Vocally this is a big song to pull off, the breathing could be an issue, so many words in so little time. She’s still sounding great though and might win enough fans to make it through, but she’s competing against Roxane here, she has to be good to beat Roxy’s sympathy votes…

• Daniel Spillane - Will be singing Gimme Some Lovin (Although Daniel had previously chosen to sing Bed of Roses and decided to choose another song after Lindsay also chose the same song)

Whey hey heyyyyyyyyyyy

Yes! Tonight is Inside Idol tonight, and that means that we'll find out the Wildcard contestants AND I find out the wildcard's song choices!!!

Verdict Recap
Inside Idol started the evening by recapping the live verdict show from group three, Natialie shares that she’s so scared that her heart is racing, which gives the cameraman a little room to zoom in on Natalie’s chest… While the “three amigos

Before last night's live verdict show ended the judges announced the first three wildcards...

We can now announce that the Wildcard show will include:

• James Kannis
• Emily Williams
• Lauren Street

We'll find out the rest of the list this Thursday on the Inside Idol show!!!

So... Who do you think deserves another chance?

**CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NEW FINALISTS**

• Lee Harding
• Dan England
• Natalie Zahra

Last night ten wide eyed Idol hopefulls sang for their supper, but only three can be invited to the main course. Tonight we find out who has a seat at the banquet and who will be eating out of the dog bowls outside

For the uninitiated I’ll be posting the verdicts as they are read, first they will discern the top four as voted by the public, and give the bad news to those who failed to impress that they will be going back to work at McDonalds. After the top four has been announced we will be told who has made it to the finals, each contestant singing their song from last night as a thank you to their voters, and to taunt those who are distressed that their favorite didn’t make it through.

**VOTING NOW CLOSED**

Sorry that this was not a live recap, I usually work Sundays, so can’t usually do live gigs on Fridays, but I’ll fix that now and put up my recap…

Before I start I thought that I'd share Ozii's unofficial opinion... just to kickstart the conversation below:

Nat - too over the top - wont make it
Jeremy - very poor - couldn’t hit a note - flat the whole song
Lauren - 80's - wont make it
Leah - ok, but too frowny - good voice but wont make it
Joe - bizarre fellow - no chance
Natalie - great vocals - reminds me of Tina Arena - should make it
Lee - good could make it - young audience will like

Unfortunately, the long of the short of it is that my video player failed to record this weeks's Inside Idol. This means that I'm relying on you guys to get involved to let us know what happened and what you thought, that is until thecritic can get to downloading the gig and watching it...

I did manage to hunt down most of the song choices...

• Performed by Dan England - Try a Little Tenderness
• Performed by James Kannis - Change The World
• Performed by Jeremy Bourke - If You Could Only See
• Performed by Joe Sait - Always
• Performed by Lauren Street - You're The Best
• Performed by Leah Rushworth - Low
• Performed by Lee Harding - The Anthem
• Performed by Nat Matiuk - Light My Fire
• Performed by Natalie Zahra - When You Believe
• Performed by Emily williams - Make it Happen

There's been a lot of talk on the forums of the official site today about the shock inclusion of Laura in the top three in last night's verdict. The rumour mill has been running in overdrive with people suggesting that a workplace newsletter from her dad's place of employment might have encouraged more votes and there has also been a rumour that the spelling of Roxane's name on the official site might have also harmed her chances.

The long of the short of it is that Idol fans all over the country are pretty annoyed at Laura's inclusion and that in itself begs to ask the question of "who the hell spent a million dollars of sms' to get her through?" It obviously wasn't the majority of people viewing this website and very obviously not the majority of people who are a part of the official site's forum... so who the hell DID vote for her?

Notice anything weird?

It's been brought to our attention that the illiterate crew over at the official site have misspelt Roxanne's name, you can see that in the recap posted above they've spelt her name with only one N while in others they have used two N's.

I'm unsure if this would have altered the results from the evenings show, but if previous competitions can be trusted you have to use the correct spelling for the vote to count.

Did the misspelling result in Roxanne missing out of the finals? And now that the question's been raised is it two n's or one?