Why Ellen Degeneres Left American Idol: Idol News

The world was shocked when Ellen Degeneres left Amer­ican Idol after just one season.

Really? Are you ser­i­ous? Really??

Any­one who knows Ellen, or  seen The Ellen Degeneres Show, or seen her stand-up shows, or read any of her books wouldn’t be shocked at all. You would have seen it coming…

Idol News

Jordin Sparks, who won sea­son 6 of Idol, was shocked at Ellen’s depar­ture. Sparks felt Ellen had “caught her groove” dur­ing the last sea­son of Idol. Watch­ing Ellen pro­gress from the start of the sea­son to the very end you could see Ellen relax and be her­self, how­ever those with a keen eye could see that although Ellen did seem to get into a groove, it was a groove that Ellen knows too well – the use of comedy.                              

Ellen’s use of com­edy seemed to increase as the last sea­son of Amer­ican Idol pro­gressed, giv­ing the impres­sion that the only way for her to sur­vive the rest of the sea­son was to be the comedian we all know and love – and leav­ing the hard busi­ness of cri­ti­cising to the rest of the Amer­ican Idol panel. That was the biggest sign that Ellen was no longer com­fort­able being a “real” Amer­ican Idol judge.

Although there was mixed opin­ions to the addi­tion of Ellen to the judging panel, strangely her decision to leave Amer­ican Idol judging duties sparked debate about the future of Amer­ican Idol. Can Amer­ican Idol sur­vive without Ellen Degeneres?

Of course it can! Rupert Mur­doch has prom­ised that the next sea­son of Idol “will be bet­ter, the music will be bet­ter.” It gives hope to the many die-hard fans of Amer­ican Idol who live and breathe Idol every season.

Why Ellen Degeneres left Amer­ican Idol

Ellen Degeneres is all about the “love”. At the begin­ning of her talk show every day, Ellen always begins her mono­logue with acknow­ledging the love from her audi­ence and then sends it right back. So many people love Ellen because of her pos­it­ive mind­set, her gen­er­os­ity and the way she looks for the pos­it­ive qual­it­ies in her guests that come on her show. She’s nur­tur­ing, warm and makes you feel all fuzzy inside.

These are not the qual­it­ies befit­ting an Amer­ican Idol judge who needs to be able to pick apart an Idol per­form­ance to find the worse parts, give harsh cri­ti­cism and then has to endure the dis­ap­prov­ing “boos” and “hisses” from the audi­ence who never agrees with the Idol judges’ comments.

Ellen said in her state­ment, “…it was hard for me to judge people and some­times hurt their feel­ings.” Ellen just doesn’t have a mean bone in her body unlike self-confessed “meanie” Simon Cow­ell, she never has a bad word to say about any­one -  it’s not in her nature.

It was always going to be an impossible task. It would be like Maria hav­ing to choose her favor­ite Von Trap child in The Sound of Music.

For Idol fans who felt that Ellen Degeneres was not the right choice to be an Amer­ican Idol judge, Ellen agreed. Ellen said that “she is not the right fit” and being an Amer­ican Idol judge was not con­gru­ent with who she is. ‘Idol Castoff’, Katie Stevens appeared on The Ellen Degeneres Show in April, Ellen told Katie in ref­er­ence to judging “it’s just so hard, I hate it.” No won­der Ellen Degeneres left Amer­ican Idol.

Which begs the ques­tion, who are the right people to take over from Ellen Degeneres and Simon Cow­ell to be the next Amer­ican Idol judge? Only you can decide… well, TV exec­ut­ives will be mak­ing the decision but you can always judge for your­self.

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