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Your Next American Idol Is…

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It’s pretty awesome that a bunch of kids who auditioned for a reality show eight months ago got to share the stage with people like Janet Jackson (Miss Jackson if you’re nasty!), Chicago, Joe Cocker, and Hall and Oates tonight. Janet Jackson! I mean!

In addition to all the special guests on the American Idol finale, there was a winner, and his name is Lee DeWyze. Okay, if you didn’t feel happy for the guy as he cried his way through “Beautiful Day”, you have a heart filled with poo. It became pretty obvious from the way Lee nervously handled his microphone in the moments leading up to his coronation that he really wanted this. We still have total confidence that Crystal Bowersox will have a killer career, but there’s only one winner, and – God, all his crying! It was touching. Suck it, paint store! We did enjoy the rest of the show more than we’ve probably enjoyed most other episodes of Idol, for our rundown of all the special surprises, read on.

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Howard Stern Talks Trash On Idol: “F—in’ Karaoke Contest”

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While American Idol‘s producers refuse to discuss the possibility of Howard Stern replacing Simon Cowell with reporters, tabs are taking the shock jock’s acknowledgment that he’d consider doing the show as confirmation they’re in talks. “There’s not a better job on the planet than judging a f—–g karaoke contest,” he said on his Sirius radio program Monday, adding that he’d “tase” Ellen DeGeneres if she danced and “smack Randy Jackson‘s belly every time he opens his dopey mouth.” Bet they can’t wait, Howie, but what do you think of previous winners? ” I wouldn’t even put through that good looking kid who won, that Kris Allen. He never would have even been through…Carrie Underwood, I would’ve told her to lose weight…Hey Fantasia…little boys are scared that you are going to sit on them. You’re out. Honey, you look like you stepped out of a Haitian earthquake.” Tasteful! While his arrival might make for some must-see TV, we can’t help but wonder if Ellen will be enough of a chuckle factory for everyone involved.

So who will take Simon’s seat if not Fartman? Unless Simon Fuller is truly determined to replace seasoned music veterans with professional comedians, it’s more like to wind up an exec like former Sony Music honcho Tommy Mottola or Madonna manager Guy Oseary, whom a New York Daily News source puts as the front-runner. “His competition just can’t live up to his level of experience, and the people behind the show are slowly starting to realize it…People really only know [Mottola] as Mariah Carey’s big bad ex.” Hey, at least that’s something, though! The only music CEOs with name recognition tend to be rappers, and we haven’t heard Diddy‘s name tossed around for a while.

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Audrina Gets Close To Glee Star At Us Party

Audrina Partridge & Mark Salling

Don’t get too close to someone at an Us party—you just know somebody’s watching! The magazine reports that Hills star Audrina Patridge was making eyes at Glee stud Mark Salling at their Hot Hollywood party, held at club Voyeur in LA. According to the mag, the pair were “joined at the hip,” “talking for 45 minutes” before leaving at the same time—in separate cars, but “their cars following one another, heading out into the night together.” You know what that means, right? Those cars were probably knocking boots.

Plenty of other celebs risked such treatment by their hosts, including Kristin Cavallari, Stephanie Pratt, Whitney Port, Eva Amurri, Eliza Dushku, LaToya Jackson and American Idol buds Kris Allen & Adam Lambert. Olivia Wilde and Levi Johnston had especially busy nights, attending both this event and GQ’s Men Of The Year party. Hey, anybody know if their cars were next to each other? Hmm?

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