Simon Announces He's Leaving Idol!

-- on the brink of the new season! Click on the title above for a WP story on Simon's exit.

Rumor has it:that he's courting Paula to join him on X Factor! Crazy, or crazy like a fox? Sounds like a lot of Idol fans might defect to X Factor; not that you can't watch both :)

For now, though, the real buzz is that IDOL IS BACK!