Wow, we knew the Idol franchise was going to require a decent revamp in order to draw in the punters this year, but we weren't expecting to find out that Mark Holden has been given the flick from the show!

According to the Daily Telegraph -

From touchdown to comedown - outspoken personality Mark Holden has been culled from the Australian Idol judging panel in an attempt to reinvigorate the tired format of the Channel Ten talent quest.

It is understood the network, together with Australian Idol production company Fremantle Media, reached the decision this week and will rush out a press release after the news - scheduled to be announced on Thursday - broke to media prematurely this afternoon.

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Late last night, we received an anonymous email explaining the details behind an ugly incident that recently went down between two Vice Presidents at Showtime, an incident that ended up with one of the two Veeps getting fired. This email was initially distributed to a number of Showtime staffers but quickly made its way to the outside world (Nikki Finke is proclaiming it as being "the talk of Hollywood"). The full tale involves an intimate birthday dinner, an expense account gone wrong, an employee in a position of power known as "Mr. Untouchable" and a whole Valley full of tears. While names have been redacted to protect the (potentially) innocent, that doesn't make the juice any less tasty. Read the sordid tale of the people we'll call Thing 1, Thing 2 and Thing 3 after the jump!

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