One of the final three contestants currently fighting to win American Idol is from nowhere but Lake Charles, Louisiana, home to L'Auberge casino and pretty much nothing else. This small town has been completely shutting down every Tuesday and Wednesday nights to watch Joshua Ledet sing on tv. There are cars with window paint cheering for Josh, flags have been raised with his face on them, every company sign and billboard in town is announcing their devotion.
When the American Idol season reaches the Final 3, each judge picks one contestant with whom they go back to their hometown for a few days. Lake Charles fairly exploded when it was announced Josh made the Final 3, and he and Jennifer Lopez would be coming back for a few days. There was a pep rally for Josh, a parade at which they threw beads in true Louisiana fashion, and a concert for the name nobody knew 3 months ago.
I walked into work today to find Chef Cesar attempting to make a sugar showpiece and throwing a hissy fit. He was stomping around and growling about how the humidity of Southwest Louisiana was his nemesis. Chef Bill usually does all of the showpieces, but seeing as he was out of town, and American Idol was IN town, it was up to Cesar. The piece was to be an amenity in the villa that would be given to either Josh or J-Lo "in secret". Evidentially L'Auberge and American Idol didn't think anyone would be able to guess that they were going to be staying at L'Auberge instead of the Microtel...
After a few hours of his piece falling over and breaking in various places, Cesar finally called Justin and I over to help him take his extremely fragile 3 piece centerpiece across the busy casino to the room that would be housing the biggest thing to come out of this town since they started drilling oil.
Guess which part I was trusted to carry...
We found out later that the showpiece was put in J-Lo's room. Evidentially when Jennifer Lopez walked into the casino this morning, she told the woman that showed her to her room not to even look at her. Rude much?? Maybe she should learn to not be so rude to the people who change her sheets and bring her clean towels.
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