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Anoop performs on "The Mo'Nique Show"

If you haven't had your Anoop fix in awhile, you'll want to catch "The Monique Show" this week.

The Chapel Hill native will appear on the show Wednesday, November 10, to promote the release of the new music video for his single, "Crazy Love," and also the release of the special deluxe edition of his album "All is Fair," which is available on November 9.

Anoop is scheduled to perform on the show.

"The Mo'Nique Show" airs on BET at 11pm.

Remember Anoop? He's hawking Oreos.

Anoop Desai is still singing for your votes.

The former "American Idol" star from UNC is competing against fellow "Idol" Matt Giraud in an Oreo Cakester dunking debate. Anoop and Matt are hoping fans help settle the dilemma, "to dunk or not to dunk."

Anoop is a dunker, Matt is not. They both wrote and recorded little jingles backing up their points of view, and Oreo wants you to do the same. Write a little Cakester jingle about which way your Oreo goes and you could win a trip to NYC to meet either Anoop or Matt, and have your jingle professionally recorded and aired on national radio.

"American Idol": Glam Adam or Coffee-House Kris?

Guest blogger Claire Meyerhoff is back and writing about the finale pt. 1:

Blogging LIVE from the Ronald McDonald House of Durham…THIS is American Idol!

After weeks and months of auditions, scary contestants, a new judge, a guy named Anoop and a girl with tattoos, it’s down to the very last song-fest between a couple of cute guys who are very different. We’ve got glam Adam, sporting guyliner and alternating between sweet sounds
and high-pitched shrieks. Then there’s coffee-house Kris, the adorable underdog who we barely noticed “way back when” but really is a very pleasing musician with a lot of charm.

Anoop on Regis and Ellen shows Monday

Anoop Desai and Lil Rounds will appear on Live with Regis & Kelly and on The Ellen Degeneres Show tomorrow (Monday, April 27).

Anoop and Lil Rounds are the most recent contestants kicked off of American Idol, and are scheduled to chat and sing on both shows. 

Live with Regis & Kelly airs here on ABC at 9am, and Ellen airs on NBC at 3pm.

What's next for Anoop. Not school!


Now that he's been eliminated from 'American Idol," Anoop Desai has found his true love, and it isn't folklore studies.

In a conference call yesterday, reports say, when asked whether he was returning to UNC-CH for his post-graduate work, Anoop said this:

"I am definitely going to pursue a music career. Singing is what I am the happiest doing. It's what I do the best.

"American Idol": Anoop, You'll Always Have Chapel Hill

Guest blogger Chloe Paterson gets to say goodbye:

Anoop’s coming home!

Ryan has a live shot from backstage and he still hasn’t let the contestants forget that there is a double elimination tonight. He says the judges don’t have as much to do tonight because the save has already been used - when do they ever do anything important on elimination nights?

Paula choreographed the Idols’ group song for tonight. She seems to be in her element when she’s in the dance studio. Too bad she isn’t a judge on “So You Think You Can Dance”. The contestants give her flowers after the performance. In case anyone was wondering who buys Matt Giraud ringtones, he does…

"American Idol": Anoop Dims the Lights. Will the judges do the same to him?

Guest blogger Chloe Paterson was shaking her groove thing as she reported on AI:

It’s Disco Night! Ryan keeps reminding everyone that the judges saved Matt last week. The second Top 7 definitely needs the added pressure of knowing they can’t be saved and there’s already a double elimination tomorrow night…

Performing in the best spot (last), Anoop sings “Dim All the Lights” by Donna Summer. There are some good parts.

"American Idol": The wand was waved, but there was no magic

Guest blogger Claire Meyerhoff: Well, we finally got to see what all the fuss was about. Yup, for the first time in American Idol History, the judges waved their magic wand over the contestant with the least amount of votes and “saved” him.

“Him” being that guy I always say sounds something like Justin Timberlake but his real name is Matt Giraud.

Matt gets to sing for us again next week…and it’s Disco Week! Ryan Seacrest tells us that next week, TWO contestants will go home. Wait, I thought the magic wand was really magic…so what gives? According to the guy next to me on the sofa, the magic wand is “yet another gimmick
designed to keep this tired format afloat.”

"American Idol": Anoop Does Everything for You. Is it Enough?

Guest blogger Claire Meyerhoff enjoys a night at the movies:

I had a very special wish for American Idol’s Movie Night. At 8:00 p.m. EST, I crossed my fingers, closed my eyes and pleaded with the powers that be…

“Please, please, please…someone sing “Sister Christian” from the movie Boogie Nights and dedicate it to the late Marilyn Chambers.”

My American Idol Movie Night dream did NOT come true : (

Ah yes, movie night. With Quentin Tarantino. Interesting concept, having a film director mentor the contestants (…because? …why? )

Give a Hoot, Vote Anoop!

With consecutive trips to the bottom two for our guy Anoop Desai, we thought he needed some help. So we asked our guest bloggers to weigh in on this week's theme "Songs of the Cinema," and to figure out how
Anoop can improve his lot. A get-out-the-vote, campaign slogan, perhaps?

Lenni Gutafson: Since we want our man, Anoop, in the top 3 this week, I have chosen a song that ranks very high on the "best of" lists for movie songs, "In Your Eyes" from "Say Anything". He can do this - he will be great. I am willing it so.

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