FOX News Staff Writer

8:58 p.m. MDT, August 16, 2009
ATLANTA—
It was a huge turnout at American Idol auditions in Atlanta. With Abdul gone, the three judges had a luminary R&B singer and Grammy winner in her place. Mary J. Blige made any worries about the missing abdul evaporate as she filled in for the next audition stop. "She's one of the greatest to ever grace the microphone I mean she is a legend in her own. I'm looking forward to that. She's dope. So maybe she can impart some wisdom to these kids because I mean it's one thing sitting across the table from us, we do it on the regular and everything. But she's out there doing it. She's singing out there every night, performing so they're looking at where they're wanting to go," says Idol judge Randy Jackson.
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