Color me shocked. I didn’t see this one coming. Even after Ellen’s guest judge appearance on So You Think You Can Dance. I should have known there was something up..she was totally chatting up Nigel.

Fox announced Wednesday the talk show host and comedian, who admittedly has no formal music experience other than a passion for tunes, would join Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Kara DioGuardi for the ninth season starting in January.

The announcement all but seals the departure of Paula Abdul, who announced she was quitting the show amid a contract dispute in July.

DeGeneres told her talk show audience in an episode scheduled to air Thursday that she would not abandon her Emmy-winning chatfest, but would have “a day job and a night job. The times we’re living in,” she quipped, “we’re all doing that.”

“Hopefully, I’m the people’s point of view because I’m just like you,” DeGeneres said on her show. “I sit at home and I watch it, and I don’t have that technical … I’m not looking at it in a critical way from the producer’s mind. I’m looking at it as a person who is going to buy the music and is going to relate to that person.”

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On yesterday’s show, Diddy and Ellen were having a funny convo about his recent tantric Twitter posts when Ellen decided to call him out on letting the abusive Chris Brown stay at his house after he beat Rihanna.

“You gave your house to Chris Brown and Rihanna. You know a lot of people would say, why would you do this?” Ellen asked.

D tried to bring the conversation back to Twitter but E wasn’t letting him off the hook. “I don’t want any girl thinking its OK to go back to a guy who hit her,” she said.

Diddy finally answered, “I don’t cast a judgment on anybody. We don’t know exactly what’s going on. We need to pray for them and support them. Let us pray. I don’t think it’s right for anybody to hit anybody. We know sometimes relationships get ugly … we don’t know exactly what’s going on.”

Portia looked gorgeous in a backless pink tu-tu-ish dress and Ellen was very dapper in her signature feminine but masculine white pants, shirt and vest.

The intimate ceremony was attended by 20 of their closest family and friends and their two dogs. Congrats you two! My prediction is this one of the few Hollywood marriages that won’t end in divorce. Eat your heart out Anne Heche!

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“It’s something that we’ve wanted to do and we want it to be legal and we are very, very excited,” DeGeneres, 50, gushed. “I think someday people will look back on this like women not having the right to vote and segregation and anything else that seems ridiculous that we don’t all have the same rights,” DeGeneres said. Of the preparations, DeGeneres joked, “Planning a wedding is very stressful. It’s crazy. My gardener is now invited.”

Ellen announced that she and Portia would be getting married on her show the day after the California Supreme Court’s monumental ruling that same sex couple’s have the “right to marry.” An emotional Ellen beamed as a giddy looking Portia sat in the audience when she broke the news. Watch this video and see the pure happiness and joy on E & P’s faces and revel in the face that our government may have finally done something right.

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