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IDOL: "Bikini Girl" Outrages New Judge, Blind Contestant Advances
Wednesday January 14, 2009

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The claws came out on the eighth season premiere of Fox's American Idol Tuesday as new judge Kara DioGuardi made her television debut.

To stand out from the crowd, 20-year-old contestant Katrina Darrell decided to wear a barely-there bikini as she auditioned in Phoenix.

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After her rendition of Mariah Carey's "Vision of Love," judges Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson sent her through - but DioGuardi didn't think she had "swing."

So DioGuardi re-sang the song for Darrell, telling her how she should have done it. Darrell then snapped, "your demonstration wasn't any better."

"We just know you as top and bottom," DioGuardi cracked after Darrell was eventually sent through. "Next time, come naked!"

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The night's other stand-out was 23-year-old Scott MacIntyre, who can only see two degrees of tunnel vision ("it's kind of like looking through a straw," he said of his condition).

After performing "And So It Goes" by Billy Joel, the usually sharp-tongued Cowell told MacIntyre (who can also play piano classically), "you're a cool guy." Abdul said she loved when his voice "goes to softer tone" and DioGuardi called him "courageous."

(The night's bizarre move came after MacIntyre was sent through and Ryan Seacrest tried to give the blind contestant a high-five.)

"We'll see where it goes," MacIntyre said after his winning audition. "I am pumped."

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The night's other successes: 27-year-old Michael Sarver, who works as a roughneck on an oil rig, and 21-year-old Emily Wynne-Hughes, a pink-haired, tattooed and pierced rocker.

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Of course, the show also had its share of oddballs, including wannabe rocker Randy Madden; Eric Thomas, who goes by the name "Sexual Chocolate"; Lea Marie Golde, a pink cowboy-hatted teenager (who was obsessed with DioGuardi) and Michael Gurr, who nervously mumbled his way through a Carrie Underwood tune.

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