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“American Idol” winner David Cook has an album release date everyone can be thankful for! Just in time for the Thanksgiving season, David’s debut album will be released on Tuesday, November 18, 2008.

Cook has teamed up with Grammy-winning producer Rob Cavallo on the album. Cavallo has produced the likes of both Kid Rock and Green Day.

David also becomes official today! His social networking site, DavidCookOfficial.com, is up and running.

The site lets fans interact with David, his music and each other. Fans can create their own profiles, make friends and contribute their own blogs, photos and videos.

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Paula, Randy and Simon are getting some company.

Grammy-nominated songwriter Kara DioGuardi is joining American Idol as a judge when the singing competition returns for its eighth season in January 2009.

“We are turning the heat up on Idol this year and are thrilled to welcome Kara to the judges’ table,” show creator Simon Fuller said in a statement released Monday. “She is a smart, sassy lady, and one of America’s most successful songwriters. We know she will bring a new level of energy and excitement to the show.”

DioGaurdi is certainly qualified for the job, having written songs for artists as diverse as Kelly Clarkson, Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani, Celine Dion, Faith Hill, Carrie Underwood, Santana, and Pink. Even Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers have released DioGuardi’s songs.

Adding a fourth judge may seem like a shakeup for TV’s biggest show but, according to executive producer Cecile Frot-Coutaz, producers always intended to have a fourth judge on the panel.

“We’ve seen from our international series that having a fourth judge creates a dynamic that benefits both the contestants and the viewers,” Frot-Coutaz said.

And at least one executive at FOX, Mike Darnell, the network’s president of alternative programming, believes that original female judge Paula Abdul deserves some companionship.

“For the past seven seasons, Paula has had to endure the experience of being the only woman at the judges’ table,” Darnell said in a statement. “With Kara by her side, Paula finally has some back-up and now there is going to be a lot more ‘girl power’ on the show.”

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American Idol star Blake Lewis is refusing to quit the music business after he was dropped by his label Arista Records – insisting it’s “no biggy”.

The season six runner-up was axed from the label’s books after disappointing sales of his debut album Audio Day Dream last year – which sold approximately 300,000 copies in the U.S.

Lewis joins a string of former contestants of the talent contest to be dropped – Idol winners Taylor Hicks and Ruben Studdard and fellow runner-up Katherine McPhee have all been dumped by Arista.

He writes on his MySpace blog, “Ring, ring, ring went the phone. Iain my manager baring the news. Arista isn’t picking up the second option. Meaning, I’m not doing another record with them. I’m totally fine with this. I guess the right time was now. No biggy.”

But Lewis remains optimistic about the music corporation’s decision, because he will be kept busy with a host of other recording projects.

He adds, “I’m still with 19 Recordings and I got a tour and new record on the way.”

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American Idol David Cook confirmed to E! News that he and fellow Idol alum Kimberly Caldwell are still an item, and even got the blessing of Fox’s president of entertainment, Kevin Reilly.

“It’s great, he’s a catch and so is she,” Reilly tells E!

Reilly and Cook were attending the Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation’s annual Taste for a Cure Benefit in Beverly Hills.

Cook says that his season two Idol contestant squeeze Caldwell is doing well and “doing her thing,” shooting the miniseries Memories of Murder on Catalina Island. But with Cook gearing up for an Idol tour starting July 1, how will they keep the fires of passion burning?

“Email, text, all of that is pretty much going to be my life for the next few months,” he says.

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The songwriting superduo behind Leona Lewis’ smash hit Bleeding Love has given new American Idol winner David Cook a big boost by offering to write him a string of tunes.

Jesse McCartney and Ryan Tedder originally wrote Bleeding Love for MCCartney’s new album – but realised the song would be better sung by a woman, giving Lewis, the winner of British TV talent competition The X-Factor, a huge hit.

And now the duo hopes to do the same for another talent show victor.

McCartney says, “Ryan and I are planning to write some songs with him for his (Cook) album.”

Cook beat fellow finalist David Archuleta in the Idol finale on Wednesday.

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