Blog Posts by Lyndsey Parker

photo: Twitch's Twitter"So You Think You Can Dance" Season 4 runner-up Stephen "Twitch" Boss and Season 2 alum Allison Holker have been an item for roughly two and a half years, and last month, the fleet-footed couple announced their engagement, when Twitch tweeted a photo of a beaming Allison flaunting a diamond ring with the caption "@AllisonHolker said yes!!!! #official #love."

And now "Access Hollywood" has released video of the couple's proposal, which took place in January on the set of a commercial Twitch was shooting for Microsoft. Watch the adorable footage below and prepare to do a happydance:

Last night, 10 more of this season's "American Idol" girls competed in Vegas, and let's face it: Zoanette Johnson stole the show. I am sure there are many people out there who hated on her wild Lion King tour de force, but my "The Day After" co-host Matt Whitfield and I were not among the haters. We loved Zoanette.

We also loved many other girls' Vegas performances last night...but unfortunately, due to this show's infuriating gender quotas and an uneven division of talent between last night's crop and the contestants who competed last week, some real strong contenders had to go home way too early. (Jett Hermano, cough.)

Watch us talk about all this and more, and feel free to weigh in with your own opinions in the comments section below. And all hail the Lion Queen!

Sarah Sellers [photo: Justin Goode]Season 10 alum and cool food blogger Sarah Sellers has been posting her viewing-party snack recipes in Reality Rocks for two "Idol" seasons now, and she's back this year to get your mouth watering every night of Season 12.

Tonight, the Vegas rounds conclude with the 10 more male semifinalists, so for tonight's viewing, Sarah is inspired by the Southwestern flavors of her favorite Sin City chef, Bobby Flay.

Simon Cowell has taken his search for the next, um, Melanie Amaro or Tate Stevens to the Interweb...

Terry McDermott with Todd Burman"The Voice's" breakout star Terry McDermott may have placed second on Season 3, but he's done quite all right for himself since leaving the show--and it all came together organically for him, in a way that never would have happened if he'd been tied to a record label. Just last week, while on a visit to Los Angeles, he got together with his buddy Todd Burman (formerly of Australian band Juke Kartel); the two wrote the power-ballad "Pictures," put it up on SoundCloud, and the response from Terry's fans (aka the "McHobbits") was so overwhelmingly positive, he rushed it to iTunes. And less than five days after the song was recorded--and less than 24 hours after it became available for download--it hit number one on the iTunes rock chart.

Okay, let’s just cut to the chase. This Wednesday, Zoanette Johnson made it through to “American Idol’s” live top 20 shows, which kick off next week. Yes, that Zoanette Johnson. (Could there ever be more than one?) The one who mangled the National Anthem at her bizarre Oklahoma City audition. The one whose Hollywood Week solo performance was a scream-of-consciousness jazz-funk improv behind a drum kit. The one who showed up this week in a lightsocket-shocked Dee Snider weave that made Nicki Minaj’s hair look like Anne Hathaway’s crop. On Wednesday, 10 more female semifinalists competed in Vegas, five of them were instantly eliminated…and Zoanette survived. In fact, she was the very first contestant that the judges saved.

Oh—and did I mention that Zoanette got the pimp spot, and that she sang Elton John’s Lion King anthem “Circle Of Life,” which was Jennifer Hudson’s signature song on “Idol” Season 3? Yep, that actually happened.

Sarah Sellers [photo: Justin Goode]Season 10 alum and cool food blogger Sarah Sellers has been posting her viewing-party snack recipes in Reality Rocks for two "Idol" seasons now, and she's back this year to get your mouth watering every night of Season 12.

Tonight, Vegas Week continues with the 10 more female semifinalists, so for tonight's viewing, Sarah is naturally inspired the Southwest. Enjoy!

Blake has the magic "Touch"Following "American Idol" Season 6 runner-up Blake Lewis's announcement this week--issued exclusively via Yahoo! Music--that he has signed to major label Republic Records, he has now premiered his new single, "Your Touch," in the most major way possible. The galvanizing electro-anthem is the new theme for Microsoft's Internet Explorer Touch, and Blake appears in the global ad campaign's 60-second commercial, released today.

The ad spot is practically as much a commercial for Blake as it is for Microsoft, and it is sure to relaunch Blake's career after a four-year hiatus between albums.