The Idols fans have voted in their hundreds of thousands and Obakeng Ramaboa (26) from Munsieville became the first casualty of the Idols Season 8 Spectaculars. 

Over 200 000 more votes were cast for this year’s Top 10 competition than for last year’s Top 10, but unfortunately “OBK” was the contestant who received the fewest of those votes, and his Idols dreams came to and end.

The Top 10’s mentor last week, the lovely Louise Carver, was the special guest star in tonight’s Results Show live from the Mosaïek Teatro, performing her brand new single, “How You Gonna Do It”. Louise thought Khaya, Tshidi and Chloe were the best performers in the Top 10 show.

Idols host ProVerb kicked the show off by splitting the Top 10 into a top half and a bottom half, based on this week’s votes, and shockingly Nosipho, Obakeng, Monde, Dom and Melissa found themselves in the bottom half.

That means they will have to work that much harder this week, when Tamara Dey will mentor the remaining Top 9 Idols. And this Friday [10 August] they will enjoy the thrill of performing on the same stage as John Legend in the Top 9 Spectacular!

The Top 9 Spectacular will be broadcast on M-Net, M-Net HD and Mzansi Magic at 17:30 on Sunday, 12 August.

Season 8 of Idols is a co-production between M-Net and Mzansi Magic. Updates and further information can be found on the official Idols Facebook page at “Idols South Africa”, on Twitter @IdolsSA and on the official Idols Season 8 website at www.mnet.co.za/idolsSA.