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Tonight's episode is going to be an extravaganza. In fact, I imagine it is likely to rival the grand finale. There are going to be some very special guests including a wing man [woman] for Ryan in the form of this years Oscar presenter Ellen Degeneres. Not only that, but the Idols will be getting some coaching from one of the recording industry's biggest names, Bono from the Irish mega-group U2.

It's going to be a massive show with some cool stuff about how we can all play a part in having a positive effect on poverty and poor living standards in both Africa and at home in the United States.

Before we get into tonight's show though, let's quickly recap last nights performances.

Chris Richardson sang Change the World
Melinda Doolittle sang There Will Come a Day
Blake Lewis sang Imagine
Lakisha Jones sang I Believe
Phil Stacey sang The Change
Jordin Sparks sang You'll Never Walk Alone

Now, this weeks polls. How are things looking according to your votes on idolblog.com?

Now that Sanjaya has been sent home there should be a significant change as he had an overwhelming majority of people wanting to see the back of him. Phil Stacey comes in in third place on 19%. In second place is Chris Richardson on 26% but Lakisha is by far the most preferred to be sent home on 40% of the vote.

In the "Who is everyone's favourite Idol" poll this week, Jordin Sparks takes out the top spot and extends her lead out to 41%. Melinda Doolittle has second place sewn up on 26% while Blake Lewis takes third on 13%.

Now, who are the bottom three as predicted by the polls?

Chris Richardson is in third lowest place on 8%. Lakisha Jones is in second place on 6% but Phil Stacey takes out the bottom spot with 5%.

When it comes to the DialIdol results, third lowest place belongs to Blake Lewis (20.54%). Second lowest belongs to a surprizing Melinda Doolittle (20.11%) while the bottom place belongs to Chris Richardson (18.1%). Phil Stacey takes the second place behind Jordin Sparks who remains on top while Lakisha Jones comes in third.

So who is going home tonight? Stick around and find out. The results are just around the corner.

Rumor also has it that 80 million votes were cast last night and that it's going to be Chris Richardson who is going home.

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Ellen is in Florida doing her live crosses from there.

Earth, Wind & Fire perform.

The Top 6 perform with Quincy Jones.

Ben Stiller Routine anyone?

Eric McCormack from Will & Grace says that "if every person who ever voted for Sanjaya gave just one dollar, we could do so much good.". Now that is funny!

Il Divo perform Somewhere.

Jack Black performs Kiss from a Rose

Carrie underwood performs

I just had a look on iTunes and they have 5 Celebrity playlists. Guess who isn't there. Chris Richardson. Is this a sign for tonight's elimination???

Rascall Flatts performs

Ellen donates $100,000 before Josh Groban performs You Raise Me Up

If you can believe it, Kelly Clarkson performs

Annie Lennox performs

Going home:
NO ONE!!!

Bottom Three:
tba

Safe:
Melinda doolittle
Blake Lewis
Phil Stacey
Lakisha Jones
Chris Richardson
Jordin Sparks

Yet to be decided:

There you have it. All that voting was for nothing. Except raising all that money of course.