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"Kara DioGuardi has claimed that new judge Ellen DeGeneres was edited badly on American Idol. Although DeGeneres received praise for her debut earlier this week, DioGuardi explained that she was better in person than on television. &amp;quot;How it&amp;#039;s edited and what you see is very different from my experience,&amp;quot; she told E! News. &amp;quot;I remember what led up to the jokes about, say, kids not wearing shoes, and I remember just thinking she was very funny and critical and had heart. It&amp;#039;s edited in a specific way. It has to be. It&amp;#039;s about the contestants.&amp;quot; DioGuardi insisted that DeGeneres is qualified for the role, adding: &amp;quot;I think [Ellen] knows more about music than you think she does. When I was sitting next to her, I thought she had a really good handle on whether a contestant had potential - whether they had a star quality. She knew something was off on the vocals or in their performance.&amp;quot; Although DeGeneres recently described working with fellow judge Simon Cowell as a &amp;quot;challenge&amp;quot;, DioGuardi claimed that rumours of a rift between the pair are untrue. &amp;quot;I think you have to take any rumour you hear about American Idol with a grain of salt,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;re usually not true. No, I mean, you know last year it was Kara and Paula fighting, hate each other, Kara sits in the corner.  &amp;quot;These things are just ridiculous. It&amp;#039;s like, we are all there to do one thing and that&amp;#039;s to find the greatest contestant - the greatest American Idol winner that we can find. And I know Ellen and Simon both take that seriously.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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