Uncovering the Giada De Laurentiis connection on this season of 'Idol'

The names Garrett Haley, Colton Berry, Joanne Borgella, and Amy Davis have probably already been purged from the minds of the average U.S. citizen, but those of us obsessed with American Idol are still dissecting what went wrong for the first four contestants cut loose on the show's seventh-season semifinals.

Click here to read Tanner "tough follow-up" Stransky's interviews with the ousted hopefuls, then watch our latest Idolatry episode below to get Annie Barrett's and my random thoughts on which singer deserves his own brand of artificial sweetener, who needs to quit grinning while crooning, and (as you can see from the photo above) how Kristy Lee Cook is channeling the energy of Food Network host Giada De Laurentiis. Yeah, I know, we think about this stuff way too much. Risotto!