New “American Idol” judge Kara DioGuardi will sit between Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul on the panel during the next season of the singing competition, the New York Post reports. DioGuardi was tested between Abdul and Simon Cowell, “but they kept trying to communicate, and I didn’t want to be in the middle of that,” she said, according to the newspaper. Abdul next to Cowell will keep the “fireworks” going for season eight, which debuts next week.
—Sergio Ibarra