American Idol Backstage Scoop: Keith Urban Reveals He "Would Come Back!

Can't keep up with all of the news regardingAmerican Idol's judging panel? Neither can they!

Though Randy Jackson exclusivelyconfirmed his exit from the Fox reality singing competition to E! News and sources reveal that Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj andKeith Urban will not be returning for season 13, Urban told us exclusively after tonight's finale that he's yet to hear either way if he'll be back next season.

But does he want to come back?

Plus, Ryan Seacrest weighed in on all the rumors and sounded off on Jackson's "sad" exit, while the ladies of the hour—finalists Candice Glover and Kree Harrison—talked about tomorrow being the "most fun" day to come in their lives.

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"I would come back," Urban exclusively told us after Wednesday's performance show when we asked if he'd be returning next season. "I loved the whole adventure and journey and watching these guys go from these towns that we found them in to the final stage."

He continued, "I love [being a mentor]. I see lots of things in them, habits I had or things I had to break through. They're often just tiny things. It's like puppy fat, you just have to shed that and there it is!!"

And while the judges'-table drama has been dominating headlines this season, Seacrest told us he's "used to the rumors about the panel. In every year, I feel like there are so many rumors in the press." But, he admitted, "I don't know that anything's really been decided in terms of next year because we haven't gotten through this year."

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Fair enough.

The host also talked to us about Jackson, who along with Seacrest has been with the series since the beginning. "I was sad to hear that my buddy Randy is going to go," he said. "From my point of view, Randy, the door's always open for you to come back home."

And if it came down to it, Seacrest said he probably wouldn't want to transition from host to judge. "First, I don't know if I'd ever be asked and secondly, I don't know that I'd be able to sit there and not get up and be like, 'Here we go!' I don't know if I could sit there in that seat for that long!" he explained.

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Finally, Candice and Kree were so relaxed you wouldn't even know they just performed for the title of the next American Idol!

"I am over the moon. I'm on cloud nine," Kree gushed, "and I'm sure Candice is on the same page as me. We just performed at the Nokia [Theatre in L.A.] and this is the finale. For all this to happen after all the hard work we put in is just a dream come true."

Candice added, "Tomorrow's going to be one big party!" And if she is crowned the winner, she revealed, "I am going to roll around in the confetti! I always said, ever since I auditioned in season nine, I said I'm going to roll around in the confetti!"

Beyoncé Posts Handwritten Apology for Canceled Concert as Pregnancy Rumors Ramp U

Beyoncé wants her fans to know that she doesn't take for granted their unbridled support.

The singer has posted a handwritten letter apologizing for having to cancel her Tuesday concert in Antwerp, Belgium, after doctors advised her to rest up due to "dehydration and exhaustion"—a decision that instantly fueled rumors that the star is pregnant with her second child with Jay-Z.

The 31-year-old took to her blog early Wednesday to personally issue the apology, as she assured fans that she's feeling "much better" and is ready to once again hit the stage.

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"To my dearest fans in Antwerp, I've never postponed a show in my life," she writes. "It was very hard for me. I promise I will make it up very soon. I'm sorry if I disappointed you."

She then adds, "Thank you for your concern. I'm feeling much better now and I'm ready to give you a great show. See you tonight."

The speculation ratcheted up Tuesday when Beyoncé announced that she had to pull the plug on one of her Antwerp shows, although, based on her handwritten apology, she seems ready to push through with her second show in the Belgian city on Wednesday.

According to Beyoncé's official website, her tour is scheduled to hit 34 more cities before wrapping up in early August.

Brad Pitt's Mom, Jane Pitt, "So Very Proud" of Angelina Jolie for Double Mastectomy Decision

Brad Pitt isn't the only one in the family supporting Angelina Jolie's decision to get apreventative double mastectomy.

His mom, Jane Pitt, and Angelina's brother,James Haven, are also grateful for the mom of six making such a proactive choice when it comes to her health.

"We're so very proud of Angie," Jane said in a statement, excerpted by People. "This means so much to our family especially our grandchildren. We love her dearly."

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The Oscar winner's brother, James, explained that his sister, "like our mother  [Marcheline Bertrand, who lost her battle to ovarian cancer in 2007] always put her children first," adding, "I am so grateful to be her brother."

Clearly, the 37-year-old star's family adores her, and she loves them just as much. In herNew York Times op-ed, Angelina explained how Maddox, Zahara, Pax, Shiloh, Knox andVivienne were a huge part of the reason she opted for surgery.

"I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer," she said. "It is reassuring that they see nothing that makes them uncomfortable. They can see my small scars and that's it. Everything else is just Mommy, the same as she always was. And they know that I love them and will do anything to be with them as long as I can."

That is love.

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Star Trek Into Darkness' review: Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto star in J.J. Abrams' re-booted sci-fi franchise

The giddiness of "Star Trek" is gone, but"Star Trek Into Darkness" maintains its love of character and pathos, the other great selling points of this re-booted sci-fi franchise. There's action in abundance and some production design flourishes that are as eye-popping as any science fiction ever to hit the screen.

But as our old friend Ricardo Montalbansaid 30 years ago in "The Wrath of Khan," still the best of the "Star Treks": "It is veeery coooooold in space." "Into Darkness," for all its dense textures and epic scale, left me cold.

Director J.J. Abrams, who has owned up to not having an emotional attachment to the TV show or the movies it spawned, commissioned his screenwriters to do a riff on "Wrath of Khan," an alternate history of the Khan myth. So knowing the classic "Trek" version -- dating from a TV episode in the '60s, updated with the '80s movie -- doesn't help in appreciating the new one, or spoil its surprises.

That's both good and bad -- good in its novelty, bad in the sense that it still relies on the original series' back story to draw on. "Remaking" "The Wrath of Khan" while not actually actually remaking it muddies the message and robs the villain and the story of its mythic staying power.

In terms of tone, "Darkness" is balanced between the original series and the more pacifist "Next Generation" -- an action film with a staggering body count, and characters protesting the morality of combat by remote control.

Abrams is intent on delivering a more democratic "Trek" in which all of the principals have big scenes, big moments and serious character development. Thus Lt. Uhura (Zoe Saldana) shows off her linguistic competence, and her emotional attachment to the recklessly selfless Spock (Zachary Quinto). Scotty (Simon Pegg) expresses moral objections to the new ways of war.

And everyone has his or her ethics, courage and convictions tested by a new villain, a terrorist (Benedict Cumberbatch) whose agenda is a mystery even more puzzling if you remember "The Wrath of Khan."

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In a bravura intro, Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock try to intervene without intervening in a primitive, red-foliage planet whose simple, belligerent natives are about to be wiped out by a volcano. Kirk wants to act, Spock wants to lecture him on "the Prime Directive" (no interference).

Kirk faces demotion, the crew of the Enterprise may be broken up, and then the mysterious terrorist starts blowing stuff up at Starfleet. Is he connected with the "sworn enemy" Klingons? Can the bad guy be taken out by photon torpedo drone strikes? Can Kirk convince the admiral (Peter Weller of"Robocop") that only he can save the day?

The 3-D here is stunning and that depth of field is put to good use in space battles and on alien worlds. Abrams and his writers toss in scads of offhand references to the "Trek" universe -- Dr. Carol Marcus (Alice Eve) shows up, Nurse Chapel is mentioned.

There's plenty of humor leavening all the weighty questions about who is a terrorist and who has the moral high ground. Chekov (Anton Yelchin) kvetches like never before. Scotty has the best lines, especially when he's had a few to drink. ("If it isn't Captain James Tiberius Perfect Hair!")

But the movie's a muddle, a piece that Abrams seems to want to turn into a "Lost" puzzle that makes more sense in his head than on the screen. The confusing conflation of past films and alternate universe story is burdensome. And Cumberbatch makes a decent villain but a much better TV Sherlock Holmes.

"Star Trek" is still boldly going its own way, even as it references the classic "Trek" canon. 

But somewhere along the way, Abrams got lost in the Galaxy of Not Much Fun.

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STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS

(Grade: C-plus)

Cast: Chris Pine, Benedict Cumberbatch, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Alice Eve, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Anton Yelchin

Directed by J.J. Abrams, written by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof. A Paramount release.

Running time: 2:12

MPAA rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence

Star Trek Into Darkness Review Roundup: J.J. Abrams' Movie Is "Brash Fun" or "Pretty Dumb"

The critics have spoken.

Reviews for the highly anticipated sequel Star Trek Into Darkness—starring Chris Pine,Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch and Zoe Saldana, and directed by J.J. Abrams—have boldly made their way online just ahead of tonight's midnight screenings.

And for anyone who's still questioning whether or not  to see the cloaked-in-secrecy film...it looks like critics like it. For the most part!

Many reports touch upon the intrigue and fascination inspired by the effects and futuristic element of the film, which at times, they say, goes a bit overboard in the action department.

But that's just the tip of the iceberg...

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• "There are times when it feels as if the director has pulled a page out of the Michael Bay playbook, taking some of the action to exhaustive extremes. At other moments, all that bravado collapses into safer-than-necessary choices. But before that whither-Star Trek sigh has time to build, the film does something bold, surprisingly pointed in its treatment of terrorism, for one," Betsy Sharkey from The Los Angeles Times writes. "So many things are done right that even with the bombast, "Into Darkness" is the best of this summer's biggies thus far. It's a great deal of brash fun, and it should satisfy all those basic Trekkie cravings."

• Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune states, "Yes, the film culminates in a vicious fistfight that goes on slightly longer than forever. Yes, it's brazenly dependent on our collective (and justified) fond memories of the best of the first-round "Star Trek" movies, "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan." We won't say how, exactly, but it is. But the new film works. It's rousing. The human element, and the Vulcan element, to say nothing of various other species, are present, accounted for and taken seriously enough to matter."

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• "The good people at Paramount have asked me not to say too much about the plot, so I won't, except to note that it is pretty dumb and sometimes needlessly muddled...Star Trek Into Darkness does not quite stand by itself as a satisfying movie, but then again it doesn't need to. It is the leg of a journey that has, remarkably, lasted for nearly half a century. I hope we never tire of Kirk, Spock and the others. I also hope that they stick around long enough to find a new civilization, since the one we have now does not fully appreciate their gifts," The New York Times' A.O. Scott explains. 

• "Is the movie good? It's hard to be objective," David Edelstein from Vulture writes. "The plotting is clunky and nonsensical, but Abrams and crew bombarded me into happiness. More than that, they made me feel so special for getting the in-jokes. Star Trek Into Darkness is a feature-length dialogue with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: Abrams and screenwriters Alex Kurtzman, Robert Orci, andDamon Lindelof set the 1982 film's best-known lines (and best-known scream) in peculiar new contexts. Alliances are muddled—fascinatingly. The narrative never stops twisting."

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• "Director J.J. Abrams, who has owned up to not having an emotional attachment to the TV show or the movies it spawned, commissioned his screenwriters to do a riff on Wrath of Khan, an alternate history of the Khan myth. So knowing the classic Trek version—dating from a TV episode in the '60s, updated with the '80s movie—doesn't help in appreciating the new one, or spoil its surprises," says Zap2It's Roger Moore. "That's both good and bad—good in its novelty, bad in the sense that it still relies on the original series' back story to draw on. 'Remaking' The Wrath of Khan while not actually actually remaking it muddies the message and robs the villain and the story of its mythic staying power."

Angelina Jolie Reveals Having Double Mastectomy to Prevent Breast Cancer

Angelina Jolie has always been adept at taking people's breaths away—but, we admit, she just knocked the wind out of us.


The Oscar-winning mother of six reveals in an op-ed coming out in Tuesday's New York Times that she underwent a preventive double mastectomy in February after doctors told her that she carried the "'faulty' gene" BRCA1 and had roughly an 87 percent risk of contracting breast cancer.


"I am fortunate to have a partner, Brad Pitt, who is so loving and supportive," writes Jolie, 37. "So to anyone who has a wife or girlfriend going through this, know that you are a very important part of the transition. Brad was at the Pink Lotus Breast Center, where I was treated, for every minute of the surgeries. We managed to find moments to laugh together. We knew this was the right thing to do for our family and that it would bring us closer. And it has."

And, from the sound of it, Jolie's intention was to make more than her immediate family feel comfortable and capable of dealing with such a challenge.


"I choose not to keep my story private because there are many women who do not know that they might be living under the shadow of cancer," she writes. "It is my hope that they, too, will be able to get gene tested, and that if they have a high risk they, too, will know that they have strong options."


She admits that the decision was "not easy" but she is "very happy" with it, and her risk of breast cancer has dropped to "under 5 percent."

"I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer. It is reassuring that they see nothing that makes them uncomfortable. They can see my small scars and that's it. Everything else is just Mommy, the same as she always was. And they know that I love them and will do anything to be with them as long as I can. On a personal note, I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity."


The actress also revealed that she was told she has approximately a 50 percent risk (the actual number varies based on the individual) of developing ovarian cancer, of which her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died at only 56.


But, Jolie writes, she "started with the breasts" because the process was more complex.

She describes the multipart ordeal of having the double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery, all of which she just completed on April 27. (And doesn't it seem as if she was still traveling the world throughout that whole period?)


Because she was, for the most part, marveling how waking up "with drain tubes and expanders in your breasts...does feel like a scene out of a science-fiction film. But days after surgery you can be back to a normal life."


"During that time I have been able to keep this private and to carry on with my work," Jolie acknowledged. "But I am writing about it now because I hope that other women can benefit from my experience. Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people's hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action."


And for sharing her story, many women will surely be thanking her in the morning.

Met Ball 2013: Behind the scenes with Rita Ora, Cara Delevingne and Kim Kardashian

Celebrity snaps from inside the 2013 Met Ball

Pixie Geldof shares a photo of UK fashion friends Alexa Chung, Rita Ora and Cara Delevingne as they hang out at the 2013 Met Ball in New York.