Anyone who watches The Ellen Degeneres Show on a regular basis will know that she’s a great fan of shows like “American Idol” and “So You Think You Can Dance”.  She talks about them regularly and often asks her guests who they think should win.  Recently Ellen got to be a guest judge on the popular dance contest and it seems like now she will get to be a regular judge on American Idol.

As you may know, Paula Abdul resigned form the show via twitter a few months ago and filling her shoes must have been a tough job.  Simon Cowell is the “mean one” and she was always the “nice one” ready to let people down lightly and give them some encouragement.  I have to say I think it’s a stroke of genius to get Ellen in the hot seat.  She’ll bring with her a host of fans from her daytime show and will no doubt be the judge that makes people laugh and gives the weaker participants some support.

Ellen announced the decission to the audience of her talk show, saying

“I love everything about it and I love music, as you know. Hopefully I’m the people’s point of view because I’m just like you. 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.”

I think more and more people will watch Idol now, I just hope Ellen’s personality isn’t too big for the show, after all, it’s about the contestants.

Congrats Ellen, you’re getting to do something that it’s clear you’ll love and we get to see more positive visibility.

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