Watch out, Dawg! Randy Jackson’s head could be next on the “American Idol” chopping block.

Fox executives today refused to say that Jackson, the last remaining original member of the cast, will return for season 10.

Since the announced departure of Ellen Degeneres last week and the reported firing of Kara DioGuardi, TV’s biggest show has come unglued, fueling rumors that an extreme makeover was underway.

“There has been tremendous speculation [about the future of the show],” Peter Rice, the head of entertainment for Fox TV, said during a meeting with reporters in LA yesterday.

“I can tell you that much of what has been written is accurate and some of the information is wildly inaccurate.”

In the past seven days, published reports have put Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler – even Justin Timberlake and Elton John — in the coveted judges seats.

Rice declined comment on all the names.

“We start the auditions with the judges in mid September,” he said. “We certainly plan to have a judges panel in place and signed by then. As soon as we have that, we will announce it.”

The unraveling of “Idol,” it appears began earlier this summer, as the network began searching for a replacement for Simon Cowell.

“In early June, I met with Ellen and we talked about the season and her feelings about the season and the idea that she wasn’t comfortable,” Rice recalled.

”She didn’t feel like it was a good fit for her. I tried to persuade her that it would be different in the future, but ultimately we came to an agreement that we would begin to look for new judges,” he said.

“We felt confident that we could come up with a panel that didn’t include Ellen as a judge and at the same time we knew we were coming here on Monday” to meet reporters, he said.

“I felt it would be very disingenuous to sit here and talk about Ellen being on ‘Idol’ next year when we knew that wasn’t going to be the case.”

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