Where's Ikaika?

From Yahooligan! News (and Scholastic.com)
August 22, 2000

Former O-Town members Bryan, Mike, and Ikaika have hooked up with a fourth member, Matt, to form a new group LMNT(pronounced Element). The foursome recently made an appearance at the Teen Choice Awards, but there was one small problem. They lost Ikaika.

If you're a fan of the ABC series Making the Band, you know that Ikaika was frequently missing. The other cast members were always asking, "Where's Ikaika?" It turns out that LMNT is asking the same question.

LMNT member Mike says, "We were walking in [to the Teen Choice Awards] past all of the press. It was all four of us and we start to go inside to get our seats and we looked back and we couldn't find Ikaika."

It turns out that Ikaika got lost on the way into the auditorium. He went off to a food stand and chatted with a vendor for 45 minutes. "For the first 40 minutes of the show, we're sitting there with an empty seat," Mike remembers. "Ten minutes after that, he comes in and I asked him where he was and he said he got lost. It was just ridiculous. It was like 'Where's Ikaika? We're trying to make an appearance here!' It was so classic and it's going to happen again and again."

Let's just hope Ikaika doesn't disappear right before LMNT opens their first concert!