Clay Aiken is a product of American Idol, but that doesn’t mean he’s a fan of the current show. While live tweeting the final season’s opener, he criticized judges Jennifer Lopez, Harry Connick Jr. and Keith Urban.
During the last season’s premiere on Wednesday, he called the judges “boring” and didn’t hold back at all.
“Watching @americanidol for the first time in a decade,” he first tweeted. “You never know what you've got til it's gone.”
He then posted a sleepy face and wrote, “Well... now I know why the ratings are down.”
Aiken went on to slam the judges’ “boring a-- responses” and gave credit to Simon Cowell for keeping the show together when he was a judge.
“It's VERY clear now that @SimonCowell was the reason @AmericanIdol was a hit,” he wrote. “I've watched root canals more entertaining than these judges.”
He praised the auditions from his hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina, but the praise ended there. He also defended himself for being critical, writing it’s only because he cares.