Tuesday 22nd May 2007

I don't know if you noticed, but we never had anything to eat last night - we woke up starving!

We got up and booked ourselves into the hostel for another night (Nikki decided that, having made it through the night, we were safe here), We then went out on to Hollywood Boulevard to get some coffee and try and check our emails.

After updating the blog, we had a burger in Mel's Diner and then went to Rodeo Drive to do some shopping... yeah right, on our budget! Whilst we were there we saw John Gregory (former Aston Villa manager). We had a look round, and as we suspected couldn't afford anything so came back.

It was the middle of the afternoon now, so we went into the Kodak Theatre shopping area to get a drink and then thought we'd hang around watching people, and hopefully Celebs, going into the American Idol Final (which was being recorded LIVE today). We did see the actress who plays Susan Myers' (Teri Hatcher) daughter in Desperate Housewives.

I could see that Nikki was getting jealous of all the people dressed up and going to the show, so we couldn't believe our luck when some guy gave us free tickets, (some were going for $1500), Nikki almost snatched his hand off. So now, we were going to watch American Idol - the Final. We were both in our jeans, Nikki in a jumper and me in my Bristol City shirt... come on! We had amazing seats - we were eight rows from where the Judges sit.

The show was great. We saw loads of celebs, including Simon, Paula and Randy, Simon Fuller, Nigel Lithgo (who came and sat next to me for a bit - I asked him for some tickets to tomorrows result show but he didn't have any... d'oh!), Ryan Seacrest and of course the contestants from this and previous shows. We weren't allowed to take our camera in, but we did manage to sneak some pictures on my phone.

As we were leaving, after the show, we noticed that there was loads of commotion outside Mann's Chinese Theatre and found ourselves stood outside the Premiere of Mr Brooks. We saw a few more celebs here too, including Kevin Costner, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher. Nikki was in her element. It was like she was walking through HEAT magazine!

We came back to the hostel (having had no tea again - we'd spent too much on the burger earlier) and watched American Idol on the TV. It's broadcast LIVE to New York on the East Coast and repeated here at 8pm. Look out for us - we do make a brief appearance just after Jordin's second song. The Judges give their comments and when Simon says 'that WAS good' - we appear clapping... yippee!

Being part of the Paparazzi is fun!