Colton Dixon Eliminated; Jessica Sanchez Moves Forward To American Idol Top 6!

Early favorite Colton Dixon voted off from American Idol dream while Filipino-Mexican Jessica Sanchez is safe from the redux elimination round of American Idol Top 7!

It was a surprise elimination night again as first timer in the bottom 3 Colton got booted out from the competition against ‘veteran’ bottom 3 idols Hollie Cavanagh and Elise Testone.

Netizens negatively reacts to the results and Colton, WTF and Bottom 3 became trending topics in the Philippines and worldwide as well!

Some says, “How can Colton be eliminated when it was his first time in the bottom 3?”

Another fan of him fiercely said that Colton deserves more weeks than Hollie or Elise who are in the bottom 3 as well!

Before host Ryan Seacrest  announces the results, former Idol winner Kris Allen sang his new single “Vision of Love.” while LMFAO  who just visited Philippines for a concert performed “Sorry for Party Rocking.”

Colton had a mixed reviews for his Bad Romance rendition in the redux Top 7 Performance night!

Randy Jackson said “We were just at the Colton Dixon concert. Not your greatest performance but it was nice to see your interpretation of Gaga. Job well done.”

Steven Tyler said “Keep taking chances and risks and do what you are doing.”

Jennifer Lopez said “Exciting performance. There were parts I really liked. It was a really good performance.”

Now for the results…

SAFE:

Joshua Ledet
Skylar Laine
Jessica Sanchez
Phil Phillips

BOTTOM 3:

Hollie Cavanagh
Elise Testone
Colton Dixon

ELIMINATED:

Colton Dixon