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Drea is the next singer in the WA music showcase to hit the stage, performing songs Cry4Me, Gentle and My Oh My.

The songwriter grew up singing in church and has since made waves across Australia with her R&B, soul and rap touch.

Perth pop band End of Fashion own the stage with hits Dancing Song and Wake Up.

It was an Idol reunion backstage as Guy Sebastian and Rob Mill caught up backstage in the Telethon Green Room.

The pair first met through Australian Idol, and have been friends and colleagues ever since — they greeted one another with a big hug.

Sebastian, a Telethon regular, says he loves attending the fundraising event.

“I love Telethon,” he told us backstage. “It’s like the purest form of unification.

“I always say Telethon is THE gig of all gigs — it’s so communal.

“All the artists coming together.”

They’re best known for getting quizical on The Chase Australia every weekday, but when it comes to Telethon, Brydon Coverdale, Matt Parkinson and Issa Schultz are prepared to go all out.

On Sunday night they’ll take to the stage for a very special performance.

“Are we allowed to say we will be doing some lip syncing? Move over Backstreet Boys, that’s all I’ll say!” he told Perth Now from the Green Room backstage.

“We are not on till tomorrow, so we have a whole day of fretting and worrying about our performance!” Brydon Coverdale told us.

The Chasers are in town for the weekend, and are looking forward to meeting their fans and helping raise some much-needed cash.

“Telethon means generosity. It means everybody, both on this side of the camera and everybody out there, being the best person they are,” Matt Parkinson said.

Well, the 7NEWS Perth team has proven they are more than just great journalists.

The team put on an amazing lip-sync battle and we honestly can’t choose a winner.

James Stewart was flying solo for his Saturday night show as his partner, Home and Away star Ada Nicodemou arrives tomorrow from Sydney.

She’ll be doing her own Lip Sync Battle.

“I’m not sure what she’s doing, but I know it involves legwarmers, and it’s something 80s,” says Stewart.

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It’s always a highlight of every Telethon.

And Saturday night’s Lip Sync battle, which this year featured performances from SAS: Australia’s Ant Middleton singing Eye of the Tiger, Matt Shirvington doing a rendition of It’s Tricky by Run DMC, and Better Homes and Gardens’ Joh Griggs, Dr Harry Cooper plus husband-and-wife twosome Charlie Albone and Juliet Love performing Twist and Shout, did not disappoint.

For James Stewart, who performed a version of Jet’s Are You Gonna Be My Girl it was an opportunity to reunite with his Dancing With The Stars co-stars, Middleton, Albone and NRL legend Shane Crawford, who was backstage cheering them on.

“It’s great to be back with the boys,” he told Perth Now backstage from RAC Arena.

“We all did Dancing With The Stars together, and now we’re all here, doing the very best we can and having a laugh — all for a good cause.”

Stewart says he particularly enjoyed performing The Village People’s YMCA, which was lip-synched by them all as a finale number.

“It was heaps of fun, though I do think we need tool belts and chaps and all that sort of stuff,” he said.