American Idol's Ellen Jumps The Desk & Kara Breaks Down!

Men's Night On Idol - For the first time in the history of the show, a judge left the desk to give a contestant a hug. Ellen De Generes felt so badly about beating up contestant Tim Urban the last few weeks that after his performance of Jeff Buckley's version of Hallelujah she ran up to him on stage and gave him a huge hug. The men in general had a pretty good night. Except for one of the show's early favorites Andrew Garcia, who hasn't been able to match his Straight Up performance before the Live Shows began.

Then the show closed on an amazing performance This Woman's Work by Michael Lynche - Randy called it dope and told Maxwell to watch out that Big Mike is knocking on his door. Ellen told Lynche, that he's now the one to beat. And Kara confessed she'd never cried after hearing something like that, she attributed it to Mike's respect for his wife's (she was in the audience) giving birth recently. Finally, Simon professed to Michael, that he had one hundred percent nailed it, and proclaimed that it wasn't just the best performance of the night but the best performance of all the live shows so far! Is Simon finding his softer, sweeter side since becoming engaged to make-up artist Mezhgan Hussainy!