Steven Tyler is leaving his post as judge on American Idol. Steven Tyler, judge of two seasons of American Idol has decided to leave the show and instead focus his energy on his music, including the release of Aerosmith’s newest [...]

Update: Sources are now listing a number of other names being considered for the new judge’s table. They include, Miley Cyrus, Fergie, Will.i.Am, Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry as well as the aforementioned Adam Lambert. Rumors as to how the judge’s [...]

Update: Ryan Seacrest tweeted a “cryptic” message just minutes ago. Ryan Seacrest: “Prepping for major announcement tmrw. Keep an eye on my twitter after 8am east & watch @JLo on @TodayShow #rhymingisfun”. Now if that doesn’t confirm our suspicions… Sources [...]

It’s quite a busy day here at the Yak, but we’ll keep delivering the news! For this reality round-up, we have news from two of the biggest reality competitions today. We have confirmation that Randy Jackson and Steven Tyler will [...]

It was just a couple of weeks ago that Randy Jackson assured us that all of the judges, himself, Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez were to return for next season. Jennifer Lopez, however, is not so sure. Jennifer Lopez was [...]

Haley Reinhart, one of American Idol’s final 3 contenders for the top spot, took a pretty hard fall during her “contestants choice” performance of  Led Zeppelin‘s “What Is and Should Never Be.” Walking toward the judges table, she tripped on [...]

Well, American Idol has whittled it’s way down to the top three: Lauren Alaina, Haley Reinhart and Scotty McCreery. James Durbin was sent packing last night, which in my opinion, was pretty surprising. In fact, just based on the poll [...]

It was bound to happen, and we all got to see a little piece of it Tuesday night. (That is, if you watched The Voice this week. If you haven’t seen this show, this writer thinks you should go check [...]

This week on Idol: The Top 5 finalists, Lauren Alaina, James Durbin, Jacob Lusk, Scotty McCreery and Haley Reinhart will perform songs from “Now and Then” – One current song of their choice, and one from the 1960′s. Thursday, the [...]

The Idol powers that be must have known it was impossible to compete with Royal Wedding hoopla reaching its frenzied crescendo.  What else could explain the scheduling of Crystal Bowersox and her tired song about singing a song when you [...]