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Ellen DeGeneres on being the new ‘American Idol’ judge: ‘I hope I’m the people’s point of view’

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The fourth seat has been filled.

A little more than a month after Paula Abdul tendered her high-profile Twitter resignation as a judge on ‘American Idol,’ Fox announced Wednesday that she was being replaced by one of the show’s biggest fans, comedian and talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres.

The network’s five-year deal with DeGeneres puts to rest a major challenge facing Fox as the aging singing competition enters its ninth season in January: filling the shoes of the judge considered by many to be the heart of the show.

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DeGeneres, who has hosted the Oscars and the Emmys and was recently a guest judge on Fox’s ‘So You Think You Can Dance,’ broke the news to her audience during a taping of ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ on Wednesday.

‘I don’t know how it happened myself, but I have not missed one episode of that show,’ DeGeneres said in the episode of the talk show that airs today. ‘I love everything about it and I love music, as you know. Hopefully I’m the people’s point of view because I’m just like you. I sit at home and I watch it and I don’t have that technical . . . I’m not looking at it in a critical way from the producer’s mind. I’m looking at it as a person who is going to buy the music and is going to relate to that person.’

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