Every year, tens of thousands of hopefuls descend on the nation-wide auditions for American Idol. It's the unenviable job of Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Kara DioGuardi to winnow the wheat from th...

The American version of American Idol debuted in June of 2002 with three judges: Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul. For the 8th season of the show Kara DioGuardi joined the judges' panel an...