We announced the other day that songwriter Kara DioGuardi has joined the judges panel at American Idol, but here’s the first picture of the new judge with “old-timers” Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson.

Simon Cowell said of new judge Kara DioGuardi joining American Idol, “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.” …