Today, Fox Network announced that Elle Degeneres would not be returning to next season’s American Idol. The nine year running show has faced declining  TV ratings since 2006 and hit its worst season ratings this last season being beat out by NBC’s Winter Olympics coverage several times.

Paula Abdul, one of the original judges of American Idol, left the show in ’09 and Ellen was Paula’s replacement. Ellen just never seemed to mesh well with the judges or the show in general.

“A couple months ago, I let Fox and the `American Idol’ producers know that this didn’t feel like the right fit for me,” Degeneres told the network she would delay any action until it had time to “figure out where they wanted to take the panel next.” The lost of Ellen, now leaves Fox with two judges that will need replacement, Simon Cowell who many consider the core of American Idol ended his contract with American Idol this past season as well.

No surprise here! The best thing I would suggest American Idol to do is to replace Ellen and/or Simon with somebody that’s very known and well opinionated, somebody like Diddy or Prince! Brandy could be nice addition as well!

Who do you suggest?