Mygetaway | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 07:08 pm     Wow.. I can't believe I missed this. What a shocker. Things were really looking like a Clay win. Everytime I tried to call his line it was busy. (I did decide to vote a few times last night.) I probably voted about 30 times for Ruben right at the end. I am so mad right now.. DH broke my keyboard just as I was coming here to post. Now I have some weird spare keyboard I can't stand. Grr.. |
Walker | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 07:10 pm     CONGRATS RUBEN STUDDARD! |
Llkoolaid | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 07:11 pm     Prisoner don't get upset I think there are always people who will say there was fix when their guy doesn't win. I bet if Clay had won we would have heard it somewhere too. Most of us think that they both would have made great winners. Like I said I love them both and although Clay didn't win I am not sad, Rueben deserved it more because he got more votes. |
Mygetaway | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 07:11 pm     Oh.. And I must say that I would have been glad with either winner. I don't know what happened on the thread earlier as I just got here.. |
Bracken | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 07:16 pm     Hey, this is a just a TV contest. It's not like its a Presidential election. Both are getting recording contracts -- hope Kim Locke gets one, too. Both will be just fine. I personally preferred Clay, because Ruben reminded me of Luther Vandross, but thought Ruben was awesome, just that he seemed to be in better voice earlier in the competition. But then, during the past couple of weeks, Clay seemed to lose his edge, too. They both need a rest. I hope they get it before they begin the big push to market their albums or have to go out on the road for the AI tour. |
Seamonkey | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 07:16 pm     I definitely would have been happy with either winner (even happier if Kim was in the mix).. what a super top three!! |
Seamonkey | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 07:18 pm     Both Moms were on the early show and both said their boys were exhausted. |
Deedee | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 07:19 pm     The AI news conference is going on now. Ruben saying that he did not hear the announcement because of the crowd noise. He said clay told him in his ear. |
Moderator | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 07:20 pm     Please keep comments about the show and not other posters here - either direct or indirect references. thank you sd |
Bracken | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 07:21 pm     I missed that DeeDee. See they need a vacation, Ruben is going deaf, lol. Good luck to both. |
Deedee | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 07:22 pm     AI News conference bringing out clay with Ruben. Clay says the reporters cleared out when he got there. C was asked to dance. He said he did his dancing on the show. Ruben told Clay yesterday that the two most unlikely were the finalist. |
Mygetaway | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 07:23 pm     So should I watch this or tape it and watch Bachelor? Is FFd'ing an option that I want? |
Seamonkey | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 07:24 pm     MGA, considering the reported number of commercials.. maybe so.. Is the Bachelor the same two hours? |
Essence | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 07:25 pm     Is the news conference on tv? |
Deedee | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 07:27 pm     AI news conference- Ruben said that he was overwhelmed. He was holding it together "pretty good" when singing his finale, until he saw his brother crying in the audience, at that point it was so unnatural to see his brother crying that he could barely keep singing. Our local has now switched from the AI new conference to local news. |
Bracken | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 07:27 pm     Yes, Mygetaway, Tape AI and watch the Bachelor. You will waste less time that way. You can probably get through AI in less than an hour if you have watched all the shows. It will also give you an opportunity to replay any of the good moments you might wish to see a second time. It's doubtful there would be anything on the Bachelor that you would want to replay. |
Mygetaway | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 07:27 pm     Bachelor is from 9-10 |
Muse | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 07:28 pm     Heh. Kelly didn't hear that she won, either. Justin had to tell her. Congratulations to Ruben. |
Deedee | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 07:29 pm     Essence, I think our local news station choose to put it on because Ruben is from here. I think most of the reporters there were getting sound bytes for later news. |
Bracken | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 07:29 pm     Don't forget all you Bachelor fans that Jen will be the guest host on The View tomorrow and Andrew will be a guest. |
Mygetaway | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 07:30 pm     Thanks Braken and Sea |
Essence | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 07:33 pm     Thanks Deedee. |
Deedee | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 07:36 pm     The Birmingham news has just gone live to Raleigh, NC. Some on the spot interviews, and a quick interview with Clay's grandma. Grandma said how proud she was of Clay as a person, his work with children with autism and working at the Y as well as his musical accomplishments. She was very pleasant. |
Midlifer | Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 07:44 pm     I could have done without all of the "filler" stuff on tonight's show, not to mention 1,000 commercials...they could have EASILY done this in 1 hour! But that's show biz. Having said that, I truly enjoyed the ensemble songs! I didn't think it was necessary for Clay and Ruben to sing their same song OVER AND OVER! B-O-R-I-N-G!!!!! BUT.....I was so proud of how Clay and Ruben handled the final few moments. They both showed a LOT of class, and I'm proud of both of them. |