Rosie O’Donnell likes Ellen as new “Idol” judge: ”’[She’ll be] much better than Paula who was often incoherent”

When Rosie O’Donnell was asked what she thought of Ellen DeGeneres being selected to replace Paula Abdul as a judge on American Idol, you didn’t expect anything less than an honest answer did you?

“I think she’ll be very good at that show,” Rosie told Access Hollywood as she ventured out for Fashion’s Night Out in New York City on Thursday evening.

”’[She’ll be] much better than Paula who was often incoherent,’ she said, causing another feud,” Rosie said, referring to her own headline-grabbing statement in the third person.

Well, I know there are lots of Paula fans but I gotta say that watching her try and put a sentence together was painful. Some kind of change was needed and Ellen will at the very least be articulate.

As for Rosie, we can expect lots more headlines from the outspoken former moderator of The View as she prepares to host her own radio show on SIRIUS XM this fall.

Rosie added that she could never imagine herself as a judge on the show: “It’s all the way out in LA, No. 1. And No. 2, I could never really say anything mean to those kids trying.”

She also stopped watching the show a few years ago anyway: “I kind of [went] off a little [on] ‘American Idol’ when they started making fun of the mentally challenged kids a few years ago. I didn’t really enjoy that. Haven’t really watched it since.”