It's all very good and well for Australian Idol to ship in token mentors each week who are concerned with attempting to flog tickets to something and/or boost record sales, but where are the mentors willing to paint ugly but factually correct pictures for our would-be Idols, huh?

Thank god for Richard E. Grant then, who has used his brief time with our Australian Idol contestants to hammer home a bitter truth - for most of them, their time in the spotlight vaguely entertaining a nation will be short, and then they'll end up collecting aluminium cans, jamming them in the back of a hatchback, driving to SA, and selling them in order to purchase a tent for a home. FACT.

Describing the talent quest as "brutal'' and a fast-food approach to fame, the esteemed English actor slammed the series for making then breaking dreams.

In yet another PR blow for the show, Grant predicted a poor future for the finalists he was asked to teach the secrets of movement and projection.

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