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"The divas are done. Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey are leaving American Idol after one season each, both judges announced via Twitter this week. The &amp;quot;High School&amp;quot; rapper and the &amp;quot;My All&amp;quot; singer joined the panel in Season 12 along with country superstar Keith Urban. Veteran judge Randy Jackson announced his departure on May 9.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;Thank you American Idol for a life-changing experience,&amp;quot; Minaj tweeted May&amp;#xA0; 30. &amp;quot;Wouldn&amp;apos;t trade it for the world! Time to focus on the music! Muah!&amp;quot; Us Weekly broke the news that the 30-year-old hip-hop star would be leaving earlier this month. &amp;quot;She&amp;apos;s okay with it,&amp;quot; a source explained May 15. &amp;quot;She had a great time but was only going to do one season anyway.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nCarey, meanwhile, is focused on promoting her latest No. 1 hit &amp;quot;#Beautiful.&amp;quot; The singer&amp;apos;s reps confirmed via Twitter that she will be hitting the road later this year, more than two weeks after Us revealed she&amp;apos;d be embarking on a world tour.\r\n\r\nIt&amp;apos;s been reported that Urban will also be leaving the Fox show, though he claimed to be in the dark during a May 28 interview with the Associated Press. &amp;quot;I have no official information of anything. I&amp;apos;m pretty much in the same boat as everybody else here with the rumors that have been floating around,&amp;quot; the 45-year-old musician admitted. &amp;quot;I don&amp;apos;t know anything more about what&amp;apos;s happening next season. It was like this before I signed on . . . so it&amp;apos;s not unusual for the Idol folks to be in this place of figuring out what they want to do, then they always pull it together.&amp;quot;\r\nTell Us: Will you miss Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey on American Idol?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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