Friday News Update

There are now officially two business days, and four real days until the Idol premiere. Can you handle it? Is the suspense killing you? Here's a little news snack to keep you from starving for all things Idol.

Seacrest Digs Chicks
TMZ has not one, but TWO photos of Ryan Seacrest spending time with actual girls. One's a Playmate, and one's in a bikini. Now, I'm not going to say that doesn't mean anything and steal TMZ's thunder, but Seacrest and I took a couple of beach photos once, and as soon as the photo was taken, he was all "Ew, ew. Get me out of here." That could have just been me, though, as I hadn't showered or shaved in like a week. Also, Seacrest is only 34? Really? I thought he was much older than me.

Kara DioGuardi Sure To Be Annoying
Idol's newest member is apparently not just going to tell contestants how to sing better -- she's going to show them. By singing. Though not necessarily a bad thing -- and god knows it would be a treat to have someone with actual singing talent judging a singing competition and yes, I left you out intentionally, Paula Abdul and yes, Simon, it IS a singing competition -- I do sort of hope it's awkward and bad, because it will give me something to talk about.

Carrie Underwood Gets Around
Miss Underwood has landed herself another athlete -- Ottawa Senators' Mike Fisher. For those of you who are all, "Who?" I'm talking about hockey. Apparently they're keeping it low profile. Personally, I still can't understand how she could have let Chace Crawford go. If I were dating him, and he tried to break up with me, I'd chain him up in the basement and check on him every 15 minutes, sigh, and say, "You're so pretty!"

Guess Who's Back? Back Again
Nope, it's not Slim Shady. It's Sanjaya Malakar, who is releasing an album and a memoir, both entitled Dancing to the Music in My Head. That about sums it up, I think.