J. Lo’s Idol Return Is a Go

Just as expected, Jennifer Lopez will judge again.

Us Weekly reported yesterday that the caliente multi-hyphenate will, indeed, return to TV’s American Idol next season – the show’s 13th – in 2014.

La Lopez will share her duties with returning judge Keith Urban and a third judge TBA. This will be her third go at the job after taking a break last winter to focus on other projects, a time during which Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj were brought on board (with decidedly mixed results).

American Idol returns in January.

Photo: Putu.us.

Update: Betcha Randy Jackson wishes Idol knew how to quit him.

That or producers backed up the Brink’s truck up to his front door because the dawggiest of former American Idol judges has agreed to return to the show, this in spite of his finally having left it at the end of last season.

Jackson will not be back on the seat he occupied since the show’s inception back in forever and a half ago but instead will serve as big-time music exec Jimmy Iovine’s replacement as the contestants’ house mentor.