[cc100]

from pb:

Is Pop Idol rigged? <<
And will anyone still care?

Pop Idol is back for a second series, going
head-to-head with Fame Academy on Saturday
Nights.

Kids are still queuing up to audition for
these shows - despite the lack of success of
recent contestants (talented Fame Academy
runner-up Sinead's album was a new entry at
no 48 last week).

But the odds are stacked against most of
them even more than they realise. Earlier this
week we met a girl who had been confirmed by
Pop Idol bosses as a final 10 contestant -
she's already had to agree to terms.

But the ten finalists are supposedly decided
on a public phone vote, so how can this be?

[Kaz]

Popbitch is never the most reliable source of information, though cc100.

I don't know about this year's - but my own view is that last year's Pop Idol couldn't have been rigged . . . . . if it had been, then Gareth would have won.

And he didn't - Will did!

[BusyBee]

Quite right Kaz - everyone was convinced that Gareth would win but the great British public put a spanner in the works and chose the best.

Even the single was picked to suit Gareth rather than Will and I think Simon Cowell was really shocked.