The 2025 Australian Idol grand finale is still a little ways away but it looks like the winner may have already leaked.
For starters, host Ricki-Lee Coulter spoke to Chattr before this year’s season even began and said to ‘keep an eye on’ Iilysh Retallick.
“There’s a girl. She’s 16 years old, and her name is Iilysh,” Ricki-Lee said.
“I was talking to her before she went into the audition room, and she was as quiet as a mouse, and I was thinking, ‘This girl is going to go in there, and they’re going to rip her to shreds. They’re not even going to be able to hear her talking because she’s that quiet.’ And she walks into that audition room and floors everyone,” she continued.
“She sang Alanis Morrisette‘s You Oughta Know, and it’s shocking. You just don’t expect it. She’s amazing.”
And now that Iilysh has made it to the Top 10, fans have voiced online that they’re certain she’ll win the whole thing.
“I’ll say it again… THE WINNER,” one fan wrote in the comments section of an official Instagram video of Iilysh’s latest performance – a powerhouse rendition of Stevie Nicks’ Edge of Seventeen.
“Winner right there,” commented another.
“Go Iilysh, you can win Australian Idol, rock on,” a third fan chimed in.
“She was the first to audition and I honestly believe Iilysh will be the last one standing and win Australian Idol,” a fourth fan wrote.
You get the idea.
Of course, only time will tell whether Iilyish will win this year’s Australian Idol.
Currently, she’s still up against Bony Onyango, Emma Jones, Gisella Colletti, Hannah Waddell, Jake Whittaker, Jaymon Bob, John Van Beek, Marshall Hamburger, and William Le Brun.
