Australian Idle?

How quickly we forget.

I played a song by past Australian Idol finalist Anthony Callea on the radio yesterday. It reminded me of the DVD that Emily borrowed on Sunday afternoon from the local DVD hire place. It’s a look back at Australian Idol …. the very first Australian Idol back in 2003.

While the programme over the past few years has helped some of the contestants do amazing things I was surprised at how little I remembered of many of the top 12 contestants from that first year. We watched a fair bit of the first series at the time but there were people in the final 12 on that DVD that I had no recollection of at all. I remembered a little of the pig farmer and one or two others but I wouldn’t know many of them if I fell over them in the street.

I wonder if any of those finalists who showed such promise, and were hailed by the judges as future stars, are playing in some little club somewhere each night to a group of 30 people, or if they’ve returned to their former jobs. How many of the dozens of bright shiny finalists from the years the show has been running could we name now? How many of them have gone on to live ‘the dream’?

As for not remembering most of them, I’m wondering if it’s a case of bad memory on my part or an indication of how quickly your 15 minutes of fame can be over.

Posted by Rodney Olsen

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