Sofia Richie and Scott Disick are over at long last. People reports that Sofia, 19, broke up with lord of all bare chested men Scott, 35, adding an absolutely unnecessary explanation:

We may never be free from the reanimated corpse of American Idol, which is more proof to me that hell is real.

We can debate whether or not we need American Idol back so soon—it only went off the air two years ago, which means the gap between getting the boot and being rebooted is shorter than ever. One day that gap will cease to exist, and then what? Some version of the singularity where the computers take over but all they…

The Daily Telegraph asked Lionel Richie what he thought of his daughter Sofia dating Scott Disick, and let’s put it this way, she has her whole life ahead of her! He tells the Telegraph, via Page Six:

When American Idol powers back up in March—like the mosquito that flew away just as you were about to crush it—don’t expect any of its new judges to be the mean judge.

After a long and protracted courtship, the producers of the dreaded American Idol reboot and Lionel Richie reached an agreement securing his spot as judge for the most disastrous television reboot of all time. And everyone knows you can’t be a judge on a singing competition show without a catchphrase, right?

After weeks of negotiations and holdouts caused by apparent budget restraints, American Idol is close to finalizing its judging panel. What a journey it’s been.

American Idol’s ongoing issue with securing a judging panel for its dreaded return is perhaps one sign that the show is ill-fated from the start. Nonetheless, the producers need just one more expert to join Katy Perry and country singer Luke Bryan and it would be nice if it wasn’t another white person.

Just after the entire President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities jumped ship, Donald Trump has announced that he and Melania will break from presidential tradition and skip this year’s Kennedy Center Honors which recognizes accomplishments of artists. Everyone is thrilled.

Dancer and choreographer Carmen de Lavallade was one of five artists selected for the 2017 Kennedy Center Honors, which comes with the skin-crawling caveat that winners visit the White House, now a bastion of white nationalist sympathizers and defunders of the arts, to attend a celebratory reception. De Lavallade …

Out of the two male Famouses recently undergoing very public divorces, I have enjoyed the sheer ridiculousness of Brad Pitt’s artistic aspirations but I relate the most to Ben Affleck, who is “working on himself” in the wake of his divorce.