1. Delta Goodrem’s accidentally racist moment.
Music industry veteran, Steve Clisby earned a place on Team Seal with his rendition of ‘Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love’ by Barry White last night but it was not without controversy.
Delta was the first judge to speak to the contestant calling him “one cool cat,” she then said, “you have such an amazing voice”.
To which Clisby replied, “but you didn’t turn around,” a clearly flustered Goodrem then attempted to recover by saying, “I genuinely was… kinda feeling…. like Seal’s brother”.
Seal and Clisby were both visibly dumbfounded by her comments and Seal retorted with “Oh. We’re both black, so he’s coming on my team.”
Goodrem then tried to explain, “I meant as in the soul thing, I didn’t mean anything else.” It all ended well with Seal hugging Goodrem and Clisby laughing off the foot-in-mouth moment. You can watch the clip here.
Fans also took to Twitter to slam the show’s ending, in which the red chairs failed to turn around even though Ricky Martin and Joel Madden were madly pressing the buzzers.
2.Phew, we can finally close the cluttered chapter of our Rihanna and Chris Brown scrapbooks, because they’re officially over … read the lowdown on their break-up here.
3. Ding Dong The Witch is Dead races up UK charts.
A Facebook campaign, “Make Ding Dong the Witch is Dead No. 1 the week Thatcher dies” is responsible for the Judy Garland song reaching no.27 on the UK iTunes chart.
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I read in the paper that Delta has had 'extensive media training' to assist her in her appearances this season in The Voice. I wonder what they tried to teach her? Nothing has changed - I feel she is still uber-awkward, trying so hard to be cool and ending up sounding silly, expressing false emotion. In the episode described here with Seal and Steve Clisby, I actually found myself shouting at the TV: "Delta! Just stop flapping your jaws, FFS!" And same as last time, she is excruciatingly patronising to her 'juniors' - such as Rachel last year - this time the 16 year old girl (whose name escapes me). I wouldn't speak to a 6 year old in the tone she uses for some of these contestants!
My gawd she's a pain. If it weren't for my three favourite men I wouldn't watch it. She is just excruciating.