Two eliminated from 'American Idol'

Lil Rounds and Anoop Desai have become the latest contestants to be voted off the eighth season of American Idol.

Two singers left the show last night after the judges used their veto to save Matt Giraud on last week's show.

Desai and Rounds were joined in the bottom three by Allison Iraheta, but her performance of Donna Summer's 'Hot Stuff' received sufficient votes to take her to safety.

Rounds's version of Chaka Khan's 'I'm Every Woman' was not enough to take her through to next week's Rat Pack standards, while Desai's take on Summer's 'Dim All The Lights' was also not popular enough to take him to the top five.

Desai said: "I'm so really disappointed. I really am."

Of Rounds's exit, Cowell said: "I'm actually going to miss your family screaming at us every week."