Wow!  Shocking!!  Who knew? (Sarcasm).

In a press conference today hosted by Ryan “I’m totally not gay” Seacrest and attended by press and American Idol hopefuls in LA, Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez were trotted out.

Blah blah blah “feels fabulous” blah blah “so excited” blah “love”.

What the holy hell is J-Lo wearing?  You know I’m going to tune into this mess each week now, simply to see what ridiculous get-up she has on. 

Also? Cue countdown for stories about feuds (all of them), diva antics (J-Lo), and loopy behavior (Steven Tyler) once the new season gets underway.

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Guess this means those hoping for Mariah Carey are SOL.

After word got out earlier this summer that Jennifer Lopez had been signed to be a judge on America’s biggest karaoke contest, only to lose the deal due to her “outrageous” diva demands, looks like Team J-Lo and producers of American Idol have compromised, kissed, and made up.

According to Deadline Hollywood, the producers were forced to play hardball with J-Lo when she wanted what used to be called a vanity deal in the industry.  In addition to wanting $15 million per season, she’d also get a movie and TV development deal with Fox. Like the diva that she still thinks she is, rumour is J-Lo was also pissed off that Steven Tyler was offered a gig without her being consulted first. 

Nigel Lythgoe and company ended up letting word leak out that J-Lo had been dumped and that they were considering going with plan-B, (aka Mariah Carey).  Nothing like the suggestion that a diva’s going to be replaced by a much hated rival in order to make her more agreeable.  The gambit worked and J-Lo is said to have agreed to $12 million per season and no movie or TV deal.  One of those anonymous sources says there’s no way J-Lo would have turned down a $12 million gig, as “she lives very well. It comes at a cost.”

Fox is playing coy about the announcement.  Supposedly, J-Lo wants the news to coincide with the release of her first single with her new record label, Island Def Jam later this month.

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Looks like someone really found an actual heart beating inside American Idol’s Simon Cowell and stole it.

Mezhgan Hussainy, a 36 year old make up artist confirmed to Radar that she is indeed engaged to the 50 year old gruff music producer and Ellen DeGeneres nemisis.

Simon’s spokesminion would neither confirm or deny Mezhgan’s statement, only saying  “They are very suited. She is someone who is independent and says what she thinks and feels, and he likes that. He’s probably the happiest I have ever known him in the nine years I’ve been working with him.”

Awwwww…. if I still had feelings, they’d be moved.

No word on when they’ll walk down the isle, but Simon, who’s worth over $200 million (no wonder she’s smiling) probably won’t step one foot onto it without a completley iron clad pre-nup. 

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