If you were baffled by American Idol host Ryan Seacrest’s strange behaviour on Tuesday night’s performance episode of American Idol, you weren’t alone as the contestants were also left wondering what he was doing.
Tim Urban, was surprised when Seacrest started to start slow dancing with one of Lee DeWyze’s buddies while he was performing “I Can’t Help Falling In Love.” “It was a little weird,” Urban said backstage after the show, “because people laughed at [Ryan] dancing in the middle of the song, so I had to zone it out. I could kind of catch it in the corner of my eye that he was dancing. I just tried not to think about it.”
Apparently, Seacrest was even worse during Tim Urban’s dress rehearsal.
“What he just did on [the live show] was nothing,” Urban said. “Dress rehearsal was nuts. We were in the back going, ‘All right?’ We did not know what was happening.”
Crystal Bowersox was reportedly more worried than annoyed. “We were worried about Ryan a little,” she said. “He was kooky, in a sweet Ryan kind of way.”
Eliminated contestant Katie Stevens apparently had the answers.
“I asked him, after dress rehearsal, ‘Ryan, what is up with you?'” said Stevens. “And he goes, ‘You know, I’m really, really tired right now, so I’m trying to fool myself into thinking that I’m awake.’ [He was] over-caffeinated.”
Credit: EW.com
