The judges are together in New York! All four judges kicked off the New York auditions by walking a red carpet and answering question after question about the new season and adding Kara. Simon said, "It's like, you know, having dinner with three people for seven years, and getting quite bored of each other....So it's having a fourth person, new opinion, I think it's gonna be interesting."

Word on the street is Randy and Simon are going to sit between the two girls...probably to prevent hair pulling.