Ellen DeGeneres might just be too sweet to be an American Idol judge!
The funny lady says that her opinion of Simon Cowell has changed — for the worse:
“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!'”
Ellen also said she’s having a hard time being critical of contestants, but she’s getting better at it. She says:
“I’m getting good at delivering bad news, myself, but I’m trying to do it in a tender way. … I hate hurting people’s feelings, so that, I think, is the hardest part.
“I think we have good people … I’m going to fight very, very hard to keep the people that I believe in, so that we have a wide variety … somebody for everybody, I hope.”
Ellen debuts on Idol on February 9.
We can’t wait to see her butt heads with Simon. We have a feeling she can hold her own!
[Image via AP Images.]
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