Regis Learns He’s Related to American Idol Judge

On today’s episode of Live with Regis and Kelly (it was a repeat but I hadn’t seen it before), host Regis Philbin learned that he is a cousin of the newest American Idol judge, Kara DioGuardi.  She brought a genealogy chart and everything (Regis flipped out – it was hilarious!). 

Regis and Kelly also asked her about how she got into the business (she was pre-law but decided she wanted to be a singer and dropped out of school).  Kara explained that she is not on Idol to replace Paula Abdul but then Regis pulled out a quote where Simon Cowell said that “one girl is bad enough, two is unbearable.”  Wow, what a gem!

After they showed a clip of her audition, Kelly asked why Bikini Girl was in a bikini.  Kara suggested that maybe the girl, whose name is Katrina Darnell, meant to show up at the Hawaiian Tropics audition.  Too funny!

Here’s a video (forgive the subtitles):