{mosimage}As they say, the third time's the charm. The Melbourne representatives of The Divine Miss P; Talia, Kelly, Oscar and myself, once again headed to the set of It Takes Two, once again situated on Cloud Nine (Coventry and Wells streets in Southbank), and once again had the time of our lives.
This is getting to be a weekly outing. I don't think I'll ever recover fully from the Curuenavirus… nor do I think my cloud will ever run out of fuel. Oh well.
The afternoon starts out pretty familiar; Kelly and I taking the train to Flinders Street while making our list of things to ask Paulini (that we always forget to look at when we actually meet up with her); catching up with Oscar on the way to the studio; twiddling our thumbs until Talia gets there. The first thing that is different though, is that for once we're not the only Paulini fans lining up. There's Judge Di (from the Idol forums), a Guy/Paulini/Drag Queen fan whom I've come to blows with in the past (and not in the fun way), who has brought her sister and a couple of Guy fans along. We have a good ol' chin wag until the doors open. They line up while Kelly, Oscar and I get to the end of the line waiting for Talia.
The next thing that's different, while we're lining up, Kelly is staring and drooling at a guy ahead of us who is walking with crutches. She says to me "That's Paulini's boyfriend, you'd better watch yourself," to which I'm like, "It looks nothing like him." That just proves what a dill I am, but then again, hardly anyone looks like themselves in photos. Since I took some initiative and printed out Talia's email, we were able to wait in the foyer until Talia showed up anyway, and much to our delight, we found we were once again in section F, where we were the first time we went. Finally Talia gets here and after a brief debacle with the seating, we set ourselves up in the back so we could wave the new banners Kelly made for us to hold – one saying "GO PAULINI AND SIMON, YOU MAKE US WANNA ROCK AND ROLL ALL NIGHT AND PARTY EVERY DAY" and the other saying "SUPPORT HEARTKIDS BY CALLING (insert phone numbers here)".
{mosimage}As luck would have it, Paulini had to wait behind us AGAIN before going on stage, this week looking extremely pretty in pink while showing off cleavage (insert drooling emoticon here lol) and when she realised we were once again above her, in a way that only the Divine Miss P can, she once again gave us a gigantic wave and gorgeous smile. The smile wouldn't leave her face when we showed her the banners, and when asked by me, she told us what she was singing (Throw Your Arms Around Me). In the meantime, Kelly was keeping an eye out for the guy we now know was Wes, who was seated in the V.I.P. section. The show starts, we're having a great time. Kelly dares me to wave to Paulini in the green room, which I do. She sees and waves back, so all four of us wave back.
Paulini comes out to perform, we're having an even greater time. For me, that is, uuuuuuntil Simon opens his mouth. I'm put off by his pitchiness, but Paulini, being the amazing professional and trooper that she is, blew us all away with her amazing vocals (that managed to stay in tune and make Simon sing better). Though we knew they wouldn't score very well, we were shocked at how hard the judges were on them, especially Ross Wilson, who only gave them a 4 and whom I would have punched out if I had had the chance.
If previous weeks were anything to go by, I knew that the judges would disappear very quickly. Luckily block F is situated above the judges, so as soon as the show ended, before the stage hands could direct us out, I quickly ducked down the stairs and cornered Marina Pryor, whom I wanted an autograph from, at the judging table. Ross Wilson was lucky to have already done his disappearing act LOL! Marina was lovely though, and gladly autographed my book AND my Big Girls Blouse DVD (she was in 2 skits). She laughed when I showed it to her and said "My God! You've got THIS!" LMAO! When I went back upstairs, Talia says "Where did you disappear to?" I told them, and they were all shocked and amazed at what I had been able to get away with; but seriously, what are they (the stage hands) going to do?
{mosimage}We met back up with Di (who was on a high) and her sister Deb (who had gone hypo) in the foyer. They're both very anxious to go back again if they can get the tickets. When kicked out of the foyer, the six of us, as well as some Guy fans who were disappointed because Guy disappeared as soon as the show ended, headed to the celebrity's exit on Wells Street where we met up with Paulini last week. The time seemed to pass quicker this time around, just because we were all talking so much. Also, Jade McCrae came out first with her boyfriend, and she was more than happy to give us autographs and take photos. It was really funny though, it took a while to get one of the digital cameras working properly, but when a photo was taken with my el cheapo disposable camera there were no problems at all. She was like "Good ol' faithful," LMAO!
As it was starting to get late, Oscar, Di and Deb left, but in a couple of minutes Paulini and Wes walked over the footbridge. After saying "I told you so," to me, Kelly runs to the corner and yells at the top of her lungs "COME BACK, PAULINI'S HERE!" Meanwhile, I waved to Paulini, she notices me and waves back, and within the minute she and Wes were downstairs, and Kell, Oscar, Di and Deb hurried back. Paulini comes out and gives us each a hug and says "I can't believe they didn't let you into the party. You'll definitely be allowed in next week!" Kelly and I exchanged glances – neither of us had thought to go to the party. Ah well, live and learn. What Paulini doesn't know (or won't now until she reads this) won't hurt her LOL. Kelly says "I love your boots!" Nommie adds "I love your hair!" so I put in with "And I love your coat!" This gets Paulini laughing hysterically. She also says "I'm really sorry I haven't been online, I've been so busy, and I lost the sheet of paper," and I get a huge laugh out of her when I show her the pages Kell printed out and say "That's why we brought the website to you!" She makes us laugh when she says "I've got to get a laptop, but I'm such a bimbo when it comes to computers." LMAO!
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Next I nearly fall over backwards when Paulini says to me "Now, can you please key your number into my phone? Your phone number was on that piece of paper as well…" and just as astounded as last week, I key it in, and without thinking I asked her to ring it just to make sure I got it right. She happily obliges, and when my phone stars ringing, staring back at me is HER phone number. Gobsmacked I tell Kelly what had happened and she's like "shhhh". Talia and Kelly stop drooling long enough to get a photo with Wes, meanwhile Oscar has taken Paulini aside, told her about how he creates music and would like her to listen to it. She asks him to get her a copy when it's finished and gives him an address to send it to!! Di and Deb are astounded at how approachable and chatty Paulini is.
{mosimage}Finally Paulini gets around to signing all our memorabilia. Talia has Paulini sign her book, Kelly gets autographs for Luke (who was with us in spirit), Di and Deb (who were too starstruck to move). She also has Paulini sign the banners and her photos from last week, and she's like "Wow, these photos are great! I've got to get a copy of them," which was my cue to show her my review from the previous week, which had all the photos in it. I also show her the homepage, Paulini has a laugh about the Katranal Fartz woman and she really gets a kick out of the "Stylists Suck" T-shirt. She says "I need to get one of those," and is astounded when I say "Then you'll be happy to know Jacki put a link to the site where you can buy one on the homepage. She goes "Wow, you guys have thought of everything. So which one of you is the president of this site?" We say the president lives in Tassie, we're just her right hand men and women who get the information LOL. But that reminded us of the surprise we were planning for Jacki and we asked Paulini if she'd mind talking to her on the phone? She's like "No worries! What's her phone number?" and calls Jacki on her own phone! I'll let Jacki put in the content of the phone call though because we only heard Paulini's half of the conversation. But once the call was over Paulini said Jacki sounded lovely.
We congratulated Paulini on her UMA nomination and getting to number 15 on the Brazin Charts. I also get my Amazing Grace, We Can Try and Rough Day Cds signed, and she thanks me for buying all her CDs. Oscar takes this opportunity to ask Paulini if she knows when Superwoman will be released ….but she doesn't. I ask her if she had found out what the new YD single will be. She gives the same sort of "can't really tell you" response as she did when she was asked at Beaky who her partner would be on It Takes Two, but eventually says no. Di finally chimes in and says "Speaking of Young Divas, I'll be going to 2 of the Melbourne shows," and Paulini is like "Well, in that case, if there's an afterparty we'll have to get you guys in," to which we're all like YAY!
{mosimage}This is around about the time that Simon comes out, and he thanks us again for the banners. He didn't stay long though. Paulini and Wes were getting ready to leave too, but I asked "Before you go Paulini, could we please get a photo each? I've got to have something to put in this week's review," and she laughs while saying "Of course!" and jokingly adds "You don't even have to ask!" So we get our photos taken, including a great looking one of Paulini and me in a gigantic bear hug. Then we all said our goodbyes and Paulini gives each of us a hug (and gives ME a kiss on the cheek – I'll never wash it again LMAO!) She says while we're starting to walk off "Now I'll definitely try to come onto the site this week, and I'll give you a call too Hayden [she knows my name!] But you've got my number just incase," and she flips her hair and says "Call me…" LMAO!! So anyway, it was another eventful night of going Paulinuts. Since I'm still on a high and so much happened I've probably forgotten something, so I'm sorry, and you're more than welcome to add to this review.
On behalf of everyone who went THANK YOU PAULINI FOR THE WONDERFUL NIGHT AND WE'LL BE VOTING UNTIL WE GET DIGITITIS AND NUMB THUMB TO KEEP YOU IN THE COMPETITION!{moscomment}
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