Michael Johns and Carly Smithson to appear on Results Show Tomorrow

Well my time off from Idol writing is over. I had a lot going on so I decided to take a little break until performances started. So that's tonight and I should be grading the performances tomorrow.

I was a little bored with the auditions. The crazy stuff doesn't do much for me anymore and so far I haven't taken any real interest in any of the contestants that made it to the top 36.

I was not surprised at all that Joanna Pacitti was replaced. I'm just surprised she made it as far as she did. She just has too much professional experience. A lot of professionals find themselves in between recording contracts at some point in their career, so it's kind of weird she headed straight for Idol auditions.

And as my headline says - Michael Johns and Carly Smithson will be performing a duet on tomorrow's results show!

Michael Johns exclusively told EW.com -

"The thing about Idol is, if you're respectful of it, and you enjoy it, and you're a good ambassador for the show, you're in it for life."

Johns and Smithson, who finished eighth and sixth, respectively, on season 7 of Idol, had expected to appear this year during the "Hollywood Week" episodes, where they had served as ''Idol boot-camp'' mentors for the current crop of hopefuls; that footage, however, wound up on the editing-room floor. "Ken [Warwick] felt bad about it," explained Johns, and thus, the duet plans were hatched