Randy Jackson out as a judge on American Idol

Breaking news! Randy Jackson is out as a judge on American Idol… Oh wait, you’ve heard that one before?

Yeah but now it’s unofficially official, according to sources at TMZ. He’s stepping back as a judge but gonna remain on the show as a mentor, I guess to keep these newbies in place.

So Mariah Carey is a judge. Nicki Minaj’s deal is done but they are dragging their feet on making it official because, surprise,  Mariah is pitching a major diva fit about it. She’s trying to throw her weight around to keep Nicki off of the show but the producers want all that fighting and drama.. and these girls will murder each other. Hopefully. That would make for great TV.

And since Idol is returning to a four judge format, they still have two open chairs. One is going to a country person. A new rumor came up that they wanted Randy Travis until he became the town drunk. Maybe they are still working on Keith Urban or Brad Paisley..

As far as the 4^th judge, no one knows. They were thinking maybe Kanye West (he had my vote.. He even made Katrina’s telethon aid interesting) or Diddy but it looks like they couldn’t snag either one.