CANADIAN IDOL AUDITIONS: The whole truth and nothing but the truth....

Contestant Nellie Clyke aka Lil Crip 4Life showing her gang color!

Ray Robinson and Nellie Clyke

Yonge-Dundas Square, downtown Toronto

Canadian Idol host, CTV's Ben Mulroney

Kym Ferguson sang a hip-hop song by Lupe Fiasco

Michelle Gifford is disabled and is not letting that stop her!

Young and old, black and white, one woman was disabled and even Crips and Bloods were all in the house to audition. Isn't it nice if gang members can actually start doing something positive! They came from all over Canada to the "Hollywood" known as Toronto! I got to Young Dundas square at 8.30am, no breakfast no makeup where Brian Melo performed. He's the reigning Canadian Idol who was formerly a construction worker. Hell you can be anything you wanna these days. I want to host a show on Much More Music (wink! wink!) some day in this Canada! After Melo got off stage, I went to the press area and you could see everyone over there from the "planet papers" (Toronto Star and Sun. LOL!) to the TV shows E-Talk, ET Canada, Hello and Goodbye magazines etc as well as Radio stations. Of course I was the only blogger in the house. Even though I am a freelance Journalist in real life, I was working for Keminications that day and you know we bloggers are "for real." I'll tell you about that phrase later (hint: Natasha Bedingfield)

Besides being just the blogger, I had the best seat in the house where CTV's Allie Page hooked me up with my "media Idol" fave Rudy Blair of all news station 680news. I sat in Rudy's live interviews with Brian Melo and Natasha Bedingfield. I said "live" over the phone! What a blast! Bedingfield's record company didn't want photos without advance media permission because of copyright so no cameras which we all probably had in the bags for other shots. She came in saw my boring hat and said "nice hat! Great idea to have that today" as it was rainy and cold outside. After the interview, she shook me and asked my name which I told her then I also told her I read in wires that Beyonce serenaded one of her songs to Jay during the alleged wedding.

She was thrilled and hinted she heard something but wasn't sure. After I told her I was a blogger, she was thrilled and said to me........"I love bloggers!" OMG! No celebrity says that! What a down to earth lady. Later I read in her Wikipedia profile that she was a Humanitarian.

"Bedingfield is often characterized by her "girl next door" appearance. However, she does enjoy glamming up for photoshoots and music videos in order for people to see a different side to her. Bedingfield has also posed for Arena Magazine, agreeing to the shoot Arena Homme Plus because the magazine allowed her to wear "lovely dresses".

Man! She made my day! Natasha said she was balancing pop and R&B music in her latest projects and was thrilled to perform in an Idol concert for the first time. Asked advice for the contestants, she said they should get their head into that song. Her next challenge is to try her hands onacting and do an American tour. Natasha wanted me to plug her good on the blog and she'll get that here! Nice young lady. Check her out at www.natashabedingfieldusa.com and www.natashabedingfield.com.

Brian Melo's interview was a great person. He couldn't help stop smiling. As you know he is dating another famous Idol contestant during his season, Tara who he told us is performing in Nashville soon was with him that day. He says he will be touring in June and hitting the Portuguese festival. He also told us he still takes vocal lessons. His advice to hopefuls out there is to be yourself, have a good attitude, have fun and let yourself go.

Contestants Daniel Sparks and Alicia Resendes

Daniel Sparks and supportive mom Debra

I met two contestants Daniel Sparks and Alicia Resendes who were so positive about everything They went into the pickle Barrell restaurant and bumped into Brian Melo who said his number was 20 away from Daniel's 7750. Turned out that was Alicia's 7730. Sadly she didn't make it thru BUT she is going places with that R&B voice. Remember Jennifer Hudson and Frenchie of American Idol?

Here are some of Toronto's finest who couldn't tell me where the media area was? There was peace and order thruout the day. Not a problem and nobody cut the lines.

Finally here I am holding some luck. Brian Melo's Idol number last year that ended up Alicia Resendes'.