Bobby Flynn, what’s there to say – he is the most unique individual to ever grace the Australian Idol stage. From the first audition at the very start of Australian Idol, Bobby Flynn caught my attention – he was just so different to all the other contestants. There were lots of talented people that were going through the audition process, however most of them were just a newer version of someone that had been there before. Bobby Flynn, he hadn’t been there, nor had someone been on the show before him that was even a little bit similar – he was a diamond in the rough.

Bobby has received much praise throughout the entire Australian Idol show this year, having the judges constantly amazed by his unexpected and unique performances. They’ve told him that they don’t know what he is doing but to just keep on doing it and what ever he does, absolutely don’t change. This is Australian Idol though, heaven forbid that a truly unique artist make it through to the end of the show. Tonight Bobby Flynn was voted out of Australian Idol, up against Lisa and Ricky. I still don’t know how Ricky is in the show, as far as I’m concerned he is being voted through by the teenie-boppers who are never going to buy an album from the contestants.

I thought it was shocking when Lavina Williams was voted, this is appalling. Thankfully, Andrew G voiced his opinion and Bobby Flynn is going to perform on the original content show on Tuesday night. I have no idea what he is going to perform but I know that its going to be amazing and the audience are going to be behind him all the way.

In an amazing turn of events, Lavina Williams was voted out of Australian Idol 2006 tonight. Lavina Williams is the older sister of Emily Williams, who was the runner up in the 2005 series of Australian Idol. Lavina showcases, what is now a recognised high power singing style which took her older sister to the final two last year. Throughout the 2006 series of Australian Idol, Lavina has been a bright and shining star; delivering consistently high quality performances.

Lavina being voted out of Australian Idol tonight drives home, what I would consider an irrefutable fact; the voting strategy which the Australian Idol show implements is fatally flawed. If you look back through the years, there have been mistakes year after year:

• 2005: Anne Robertson was voted out in the final six, when it should have been her and Emily Williams in the final.
• 2004: Ricki-Lee Coulter was dropped in the final seven.

To prove the point a little more, in the 2004 series of Australian Idol the winner Casey Donovan struggled to sell a record. How is it that the ‘Australian Idol’ — someone who received millions of votes struggles to sell a single? Hang on, what if the voting system was broken. What if all the people voting aren’t the people that are going to actually buy the records and they are voting for other reasons? Stay with me here, what if a significant number of the votes for the Australian Idols are made up of 16 and under teenagers? Sure, they’ll spend $0.50c to send an SMS – I seriously doubt that they’d spend the $25 on the actual album though.

I’m disappointed to see Lavina Williams go out of the competition tonight, I think there were far more deserving contestants who should have had that fate.