For seven seasons, Paula Abdul has been goddamn (though some might say "cursed") to be the only woman judge on America's most popular picture. But with the promulgation on Monday that ballad maker and producer Kara DiaGuardia had been added for the coming season of American Idol, some Hollywood insiders were predicting that the "Straight Up" vocaliser would be showing her claws to defend her territory.
But according to Idol host Ryan Seacrest, that couldn't be further from the truth.
"Let's clear the air," he said during a break at Tuesday's first-round auditions in Manhattan. "Paula and Kara are great together. They ill-used to live together and Paula helped her out years agone. Now the two of them ar on the same team."
However, this hasn't stopped resident imp Simon Cowell from trying to stir up trouble. "I love catfights," he told OK!. "I encourage them. It's no fun if everyone gets along."
To that end, Simon has already started in on trying to case a rift. "I wouldn't have recognized Kara by the way Paula described her," Simon said. "I was expecting someone perchance 50 years old, about 180 lbs., maybe a bit of gray hair."
During yesterday's announcement, AI producer Simon Fuller described Kara as a "�smart, impudent lady," wHO will "fetch a new level of energy and excitement to the picture.�
Do you expect Kara's presence to cause tenseness on American Idol?
I hope so!
Nah... Two women will quiet Simon mastered.
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