The shrill rightwing Parents Television Council – a nutty fringe group with six members in Utah — have their panties in a twist over just the thought of Howard Stern taking over for Simon Cowell on ‘American idol’.
Says a spokesman:
“Given ‘American Idol’s’ extreme popularity with family audiences, I hope that Fox will put the rumors [...]

Madonna protégé Guy Oseary is now the top contender to take over Simon Cowell’s chair on ‘American Idol’.
Says a source:
“Guy is perfect.  He’s survived Madonna, Alanis Morissette, and even the ‘Twilight’ nuts (he produced both ‘Twilight’ and ‘New Moon’.)  Nothing will shake him and he’ll give real criticism – just like Simon Cowell.”

According to nutty UK tabloids, Simon Cowell is losing the PR battle with his ‘Idol’ bosses — so he’s going to ‘go public’ with his ‘deep relationship’ with make-up artist Mezhgan Hussainy.
Simon’s PR Team says: A  ‘source’ says:
“Simon is ready to let everyone know. Their relationship has been conducted under a cloak of secrecy!”
Simon’s previous [...]

Simon Cowell’s Haiti Earthquake Relief single, “Everybody Hurts,” featuring Leona Lewis, Kylie Minogue, Robbie Williams, and Susan Boyle is set to be huge.
HMV’s Gennaro Castaldo says:
“We’re getting record levels of pre-orders for Everybody Hurts. It is well on course to become a million seller, easily the biggest selling single for a decade.”
Good for them.  Let’s [...]

The (fake) Ellen Degeneres-Simon Cowell feud heating up:
Says Ellen:
I had one idea of Simon when I came in, and it’s changed. He’s actually meaner than I thought…It’s hard to listen to him tell people things and me not to go, ‘You poor thing!’”
Does ‘Ameriocan Idol’ need this much fake PR?

It’s turning into a war down at ‘American Idol’.
We told you a few days ago that Ellen was pissed at Simon – well, it’s much worse then that!  They won’t even speak to each other!
Says a gossipbomb source:
“The minute the cameras stop rolling they run to their corners and ignore each other. What’s worse is [...]

There’s major backstage drama going on over at ‘American Idol’!
On Ellen’s very first day of taping, Simon Cowell was an hour and a half late and Ellen blew up!
Says a source:
“Here it was the first day of taping of the Hollywood shows, and Ellen was there waiting for Simon to show up. Ellen’s new to [...]

Hot Rumor Of The Day:
ABC has offered Paula Abdul a $1 million bucks to be a judge on “Dancing With The Stars”!
Word is that she’ll also do other projects for ABC — and that she can do rival Fox’s ‘X-Factor’ show with her old buddy Simon Cowell!
Rumor Rating:  9   We knew they couldn’t keep you [...]

Simon Cowell getting in on the Haiti action and will produce a charity single to benefit the victims of the massive earthquake in Haiti.
Expect Cowell protege’s Susan Boyle, Leona Lewis and Cheryl Cole to be in on it, too.

Hot Rumor Of The Day:
Simon Cowell has tapped his UK ‘X-Factor’ co-star, ‘Girls Aloud’ singer Cheryl Cole, to be one of the judges on the new US version of the all-age singing competition.
Rumor Rating: 8 Cowell loves her.  Move over Paula, Cheryl’s going to be joining you.

“American Idol” has already found their first star of the 9th edition of the just-won’t-die reality competition
“Pants On The Ground’ singer/songwriter “General” Larry Platt has gone from joke to sensation over night.
His original tune, who the AI producers saved for the very last audition of the night, is an Internet sensation amassing downloads not seen [...]

“American Idol” boss Simon Fuller is being flooded with calls from agents who want to place their clients in the soon to be vacated Simon Cowell judge chair.
“A day doesn’t pass that I don’t get a call from an agent of a superstar saying, ‘Can we talk?’ Everyone’s interested, and that’s going to go on [...]