Say Goodbye to Hollywood

Denver’s Crush Idol, Kristy Lee Cook, said goodbye last night after receiving the lowest amount of votes during Mariah Carey week on Fox’s money-making mega-hit, American Idol.

Cook, who is the sister-in-law of Colorado Crush QB, John Dutton, shed some tears as she hugged bottom-three co-blonde, Brooke White, and then thanked her fans for their support.

Now off you go!

Elway: “Spread the rumor, I’m coming back!”

Last night, John Elway dined with his girlfriend, former Raiders cheerleaders Paige Green, at the Ivy in LA. Swarmed by paparazzi, Elway joked that he and Brett Favre were coming out of retirement. “Spread the rumor, I’m coming back,” he said.

When asked about his car dealerships, Elway joked, “If you guys need a Toyota, you know where to come.”

Check out the video courtesy of TMZ.

Melo and La La Skitting?

According to the Denver Post, Nugg’s Carmelo Anthony, who was picked up early Monday morning for alleged drunk driving, couldn’t find a ride home from the police station.

Apparently officers tried to get a “responsible person” to pick up Anthony so they contacted Anthony's fiancee, La La Vasquez. Vasquez didn’t pick him up and an officer instead drove him to the Ritz-Carlton hotel where Vasquez was staying.

Vasquez defended her actions by saying in a released statement: "I will always have his [Anthony’s] back and never refused to pick him up from the police station. In fact, they [police] offered to bring him to me."

DCN, like the rest of Colorado, is still anxiously awaiting the results of Melo’s blood test, which somehow takes up to two weeks to determine if Melo was drinking when he was pulled over (although you can pee on a stick and find out your pregnant instantly??).

Colorado Calling: Hometown Dates for Two Colorado Bachelorettes

Both Colorado Bachelorettes on ABC's "The Bachelor, London Calling" have made it to the final four and will be bringing Brit bachelor to their hometowns for a little family lovin'.

Be sure to tune in next Monday night to watch both Chelsea Wansrath (left) from Durango and Noelle Drake (right) from Loveland introduce Brit Bachelor to the glorious state of Colorado.

Congrats to CBS’s Ericka Lewis

Weekend morning anchor, Ericka Lewis, is seeing pink these days. Earlier this month, Lewis and her husband welcomed a new baby girl to their family.

The baby girl, whose name is unknown to DCN at this time, joins big brother Joshua in their Boulder home. CBS has confirmed that Lewis will be on maternity leave for the next couple of months.

Lewis joins Cheryl Preheim (NBC), who just returned to work a few weeks ago after her maternity leave, and Dayle Cedars (ABC), who announced this week that she’s expecting twin girls in the fall, in Denver’s news industry’s baby boom. Interestingly, Lewis, Preheim and Cedars all anchor weekend morning news programs.

Carmelo Makes Uh Oh

Nugget's superstar, Carmelo Anthony, 23, was arrested early this morning on suspicion of drunk driving. He was cited at 4:00 am on April 14 at I-25 and 20th Street. It's likely the all-star forward was celebrating the Nuggets defeat of the Houston Rockets. Within games of clinching a playoff spot, the young player, who has been a gossip target in the past, should have known better.

Let's hope Anthony's stupidity doesn't lead to a suspension (although it probably should). As you may recall, Anthony bears some blame when he threw punches at the Knicks-Nuggets game last season and caused his suspension - and perhaps cost the Nuggets the a higher conference seeding last year and forcing them to play the Spurs in the first round... and we all know how poorly that ended.*

Anthony joins the Nugg's Idiot Hall of Fame, joining fellow player, Kenyon Martin, who was arrested for speeding in 2006.

Blame Anthony's stupidity on his age? Or just blame him for being stupid? DCN wants to know. Leave me a comment.

*Written by DCN's husband - DCN has no idea how poorly it ended :-)

Former Denver Idol Hotty Guest Stars on Fox’s Bones

American Idol wannabe and Denver native, Ace Young (pictured right), is slated to guest star – and die – on an upcoming episode of the Fox crime drama, Bones.

The episode is titled, “The Wannabe in the Weeds,” and involves the murder of an aspiring young singer found dead. The investigation leads detectives to a restaurant where the singer used to work and where a handful of wannabe singers took part in a recent open mike contest.

It also guest stars another American Idol reject, Brandon Rogers (pictured left). Fans of AI will recall that Rogers was the first of the Top 12 to be sent home last year.

Here is a clip of Young talking about his upcoming role on Bones to Extra
http://youtube.com/watch?v=N2d-5ScGgO4.

One thing DCN is confused about – has this episode aired or what? Young says “yes” in his Extra interview, but Fox shows that the episode hasn’t aired yet and is slated for end of May. Any one actually watch the show? If you have answers, please leave DCN a comment.

Another Colorado Bachelorette Desperate for Love

DCN shamefully didn’t do all her homework in her initial report on The Bachelor, London Calling. In addition to Noelle Drake on this season’s reality crapshoot, there is another hometown desperado in the bunch.

Chelsea Wanstrath (pictured), a phama rep and leading lady wannabe, is from Durango. Both Noelle and Chelsea are still in the running to win Brit Bachelor’s heart.

DCN must admit that she does not watch the show. But maybe she’ll set her TiVo to give you more interesting commentary next week. Then again, maybe not.

Anyone watch the show and willing to write a blog entry about Noelle and Chelsea?

Matthew’s Mom is Back

You’ve probably seen the commercials teasing the return of this year’s Best Weathercaster, Kathy Sabine. Actually, they’re hard to miss if you ever watch 9News because they run over and over again.

Nevertheless, DCN welcomes Matthew’s mom back from maternity leave on Monday, April 14 - just in time for the nice weather to hit Colorado.

You can see the promotional commercial teasing Sabine's return courtesy of YouTube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=rl-YfIbt5e0. Warning - if you're female, have a baby, and have raging hormones, (DCN check to all!), you will either cry or get goose bumps.

Hill’s Campaign Song Has Denver Roots

As many of you know (and DCN has been clueless about for months), presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, ditched the lame Celine Dion “You and I” song choice that her fans selected as her campaign theme and opted for a hipper option, “Blue Sky,” by Denver rock band, Big Head Todd and the Monsters (pictured left).

Smart choice, Hill, as the Rocky Mountains will host the Democratic National Convention and this song choice will likely help your campaign rally some local momentum.

If DCN were in charge of song selection, here’s what the candidates’ campaign songs would be:

Hillary Clinton could stump with a girl power song and choose No Doubt’s “Just a Girl.” You go girl – prove to the ladies of the world that it’s possible to break that glass ceiling!

Barack Obama, who continues to lament that race is not a part of his campaign even though it is, should channel some vintage Michael Jackson and change his theme song to “Black or White.”

John McCain should choose a relatively unknown song by Colin Rudd called “Old Man’s Song.” Check it out on YouTube if you’re not familiar with it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_6uaYfAhfU

And last but not least, Ralph Nader’s campaign song should be, most obviously, “You’re Never Gonna Get It” by En Vogue. Now if only he’d gotten the memo.