Simon Cowell will be given extra power alongside his fellow American Idol judges after a dramatic rule change is introduced on tonight’s results show.

The change will allow the judges to NULLIFY the public vote and SAVE a contestant that had been chosen to be eliminated by the public, putting pressure on the contestants for the following week where there will be a DOUBLE elimination. They will only be allowed to do this ONCE during the show, and the judges must UNANIMOUSLY decide to save them.

A massive 33 million votes were cast in last night’s first elimination show of the series, which saw Jasmine Murray and Jorge Nunez voted off, with the latter failing to win the public round despite the backing of Jennifer Lopez and her husband Marc Anthony. The judges also passed up on the opportunity of saving Nunez.

Kanye West and Kelly Clarkson also performed special guest performances on the show.

Next week’s theme was also announced as ‘Grand Ole Opry Week’ which will see the contestants tackle country songs.

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Yes you read the title right! Last night the American Idol judges twisted proceedings a little and at the end of the wild card round announced that this year, they were actually going to allow thirteen contestants through to the live finals rather than the usual twelve.

Anoop Desai, Jasmine Murray, Megan Corkrey and Matt Giraud will now join Jorge Nunez, Scott MacIntyre, Lil Rounds, Kris Allen, Adam Lambert, Allison Iraheta, Danny Gokey, Alexis Grace and Michael Sarver in next weeks first live show in the full size American Idol studio.

I think last night’s choice were all quite predictable and doubt that the judges made their decision on the spot. Each person who got through was definitely amongst the favourites in their original group and each has a massive fanbase out there in the real world, especially Anoop it would seem. Simon claimed that the decision to make the numbers up to thirteen was semi spontaneous, but I think it might just be the ‘shocker’ talked about by Fox execs at the beginning of the season.

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