About two months ago, Anna Ayala [pictured to the left along with her husband on the far left] claimed she bit down on a 1 1/2-inch finger while eating a bowl of Wendy's chili.

Once word of her claim was released, many people freaked out and a good number even stopped eating at Wendy's despite the fact that police checks could find no one at the store in question [or even when they backtracked to the companies that supplied the ingredients that went into the chili] who had lost a finger!

Last month police said that they believed the story was a hoax. And even though Wendy's had offered up a $100,000 reward, there was still no clue as to where the finger came from.

All of that changed today when police announded that they had traced the missing finger to an associate of Anna Ayala's husband. The unidentified man, who is cooperating with police, lost the finger in an industrial accident.

Anna Ayala has been charged with attempted grand larceny with more charges pending. Wendy's has lost millions in sales and had to lay off dozens of employees in area stores.

If there's any justice, Ms. Ayala will do a bit of time and Wendy's will bounce back quickly and be able to rehire those employees who've been laid off. I think that maybe this weekend, I'll have to get myself a Frosty... if only to help the cause.

Last night the dream ended for Scott Savol and the nightmare began for Paula Abdul.

Despite a performance on Tuesday that Simon called his best ever, Scott was voted off. I was pretty sure that he'd be in the bottom group, but held out the hope that it'd be Anthony who'd get the boot. Still, it's quite an accomplishment that Scott made it as far as he did. Scott certainly isn't what most would consider the proto-type for an American Idol. Still, I wish Scott the best, and hope this leads to good things for him.

The Primetime Special on Paula Abdul's alleged affair turned out to have a lot of evidence pointing to the fact that it happened. I'll admit that before the special aired, I thought there was a possibility that Paula could have paid more attention to one of the contestants, but man, I didn't think that the facts would be so blatently bad against her.

Not only did Corey Clark provide phone records showing Paula repeatedly called him and his parents [with some lasting over an hour], but there were voice mail messages telling him to keep quiet, receipts for clothes she paid bought for him, a cell phone, and even medicine that Paula bought him. She even helped him pick out a Journey song to perform saying that Randy would like it, since he played with the band years ago and sure enough that's what happened.

How will this affect American Idol? My guess is that it won't hurt the show much at all.

The real question is how will it affect Paula? If the producers of the show don't stand behind her, she's done. Although many fans love her positive comments and playful interactions with Simon, the show could go on without her.

And unfortunately, it may have to.

When I was a kid, I used to love to watch reruns of the old black and white Zorro tv series. I'm not sure how they'd hold up today, but back then they sure made me want to swordfight and swashbuckle. : )

I really enjoyed Antonio Bandaras, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Anthony Hopkins in The Mask of Zorro when it first appeared back in 1998. It's hard to believe that it's taken seven years to get Zorro back to the big screen. But from the looks of this trailer, "The Legend of Zorro" will be worth the wait!

Yesterday I told you that ABC's "Primetime Live" will air a special that will "explore explosive claims" about behind-the-scenes activities on American Idol. It now appears that those claims include allegations by former Amreican IIdol contestant Corey Clark that he had an affair with Abdul.

If, like me, you had forgotten who Corey Clark is; let me remind you. Clark appeared on the second season of the show, but was kicked out of the competition when the producers discovered that he had a criminal record that he had lied to them about. Clark is now reportedly shopping a book proposal detailing the behind-the-scenes activities of American Idol, his affair with Paula Abdul and how she allegedly "offered him financial assistance for his career pursuits and pressured him to keep their romance quiet."

If, like me, you're thinking "so what." Think again.

If the alleged affair did take place, Abdul could have violated FCC rules in regard to "televised skill contests." Further, if she knew this and attempted to keep things quiet, it only gets worse.

Although Paula Abdul has denied the alegations, and her attorney is threatening to sue ABC if they go ahead with their plans to air the special, other reports indicate that American Idol producers are investigating Clark's claims.

It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. My guess is that ABC will air the special and that Abdul will continue to deny any wrong-doing... and that American Idol will continue without missing a beat.

Many of you, like me, have been closely following American Idol this season. And what a strange season it's been. And I'm not just referring to Paula Abdul's antics. Well things may get even stranger. On May 4th at 10PM, ABC's "Primetime Live" will air a special that they say will "explore explosive claims" about behind-the-scenes activities on American Idol.

My guess is that the "explosive claims" won't be all that "explosive" and will have more to do with voting procedures than off stage antics.

But who knows, we may find out that when Randy Jackson says, "I was really feeling ya, dog" that he means it.