Ellen DeGeneres Joining American Idol As 4th Judge

Put a nail in Paula Abdul’s coffin. Her stint as the lovable but ditzy judge is over and the new guard is going to include the dance-a-licous Ellen DeGeneres.

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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