AMERICAN IDOL: Kara DioGuardi. CR: Michael Becker / FOX

Simon Cowell’s mouth wasn’t the only one working overtime today. Fellow American Idol judge, Kara DioGuardi spoke with Sean Valentine on the popular radio program Valentine in the Morning today about Cowell’s announcement that he would exit the popular reality show at the end of the ninth season.

Click onto media bar for the exchange between Valentine and his Valentine in the Morning posse and American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi just as Cowell went public with his announcement.

Season nine of American Idol premieres Tuesday and Wednesday of this week beginning 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on Fox.