By now, regular hecklerspray readers will know all about our very own Chris Laverty's quest to be crowned winner of Empire magazine's Thunderdome competition – like American Idol but more about writing and less about angrily demanding to see Simon Cowell's work permit.

And here's the good news – Chris has made it through yet another stage of the competition with flying colours, but he still needs all the help your feeble mortal bodies can give him. The rules of Empire Thunderdome are still the same – you need to go and visit the Empire Thunderdome page and click on Chris Laverty's face again and again until all the repetitive movement knackers your finger beyond repair. It'll be worth the effort, promise.

For those of you who haven't read this month's Empire yet, we snuck into Tescos and read it until we were moved on bought our own copy, so we know that Chris spent last month writing a news story about her out of Desperate Housewives. And Empire told him the story was funny but ultimately inconsequential. It's the hecklerspray way, that's for sure, and almost enough to make us weep a single proud tear.

So what are you waiting for? Go to the Empire Thunderdome page right away and vote for Laverty! Vote like your lives depend on it! And, since Sofie The Pretty Danish Girl bit the dust this month, you've got no excuse to get distracted. Unless disturbingly goonish-looking overweight blokes named after rubbish circus acts are your thing, of course.

Vote For Chris Laverty at Empire Thunderdome now