Please don’t become defensive when your favorite is criticized. Respect your fellow posters opinions — Please don’t assume your fellow posters motivations.

I love them both!!!

I don’t usually weigh in on the personal lives of celebs or psuedo-celebs as I think they should be afforded the same privacy as anyone else, but as it’s been potent in this thread I’ll throw up a modicom of perpsective: DC said that KC had been so complementary toward him that he asked her to dinner. I think we all have friends who ask us out to dinner when we do something nice for them so I wouldn’t read a whole lot into that by itself. TMZ, that ever reliable tabloid, has a video of them leaving a restaurant with two other people – ok, still doesn’t prove anything, even with DC’s response to the “will we be seeing you together again” question – what is he supposed to say, he’s hardly the kind of guy who’s going to say “well, no” – he keeps it private so he gives the only response he can. Same with his reponse on Larry King, he was polite and tactful without giving much away – his “drawn-out process” remark could very well have been a dig at the tabloid press who will keep this going (and us bloggers who will keep dissecting), or, as it isn’t a phrase usually associated with happy relationships, perhaps he meant if it takes long enough to set up the dinner he won’t have to go. Point is, the tabloids, and as a result we the fans, could be reading way too much into a simple dinner request (see this drawn out dissection as an example). Enjoying his music, that’s all he wants from his fans, not an obsession with his private life.

As for Cook asking Kim out on television, I guess that will probably just be a lesson learned. He’s not exactly experienced at being famous. Personally, I loved it. How often do you ever get to see that with any celebrity? And Kim’s reaction was priceless. A genuine moment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G-JB9h5Tbk

and wow i totally didn’t think dc was putting jc down. he was just teasing. wow.

But Cook walked into this one a bit. He did ask her out publicly, on cameraà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦ If he didnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t want it to be publicized, he should have asked her out privatelyà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦

Fair point but I cringe to see the emphasis go there instead of the music. Plus, I just don’t go ‘there’ (personal relationship questions) with people unless they open the door to that kind of conversation. I wouldn’t ask the married contestants about their marriages either.

I’d like to see them each get a ‘grace period’ so they can get their bearings (and some PR coaching) in the land of the famous, the infamous, and tabloids.

Thanks for pointing out that M.Johns was on a live feed which effected his commentary. I hadn’t thought about that and just thought he was talking over the others. I stand corrected!