LOS ANGELES – Ellen DeGeneres is leaving “American Idol” after one season as a judge for the hit Fox TV singing contest.

A person close to the show says DeGeneres won’t return for the 10th season, which gives “American Idol” two vacancies on its judging panel. Fox has yet to announce a replacement for Simon Cowell, who left at the end of last season to start a new talent show.

Wahlberg honored

Rapper-turned-underwear model-turned-Oscar-nominated actor Mark Wahlberg has been enshrined in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The 39-year-old actor was presented with a star Thursday on Hollywood Boulevard’s famed sidewalk monument.

Wahlberg first gained game in the 1980s and ’90s with the group New Kids on the Block.

Later, he was featured in a Calvin Klein underwear campaign.

Wahlberg got a supporting actor Academy Award nomination in 2006 for “The Departed.”

Flatts album due

Rascal Flatts will release their new album, “Nothing Like This,” on Big Machine Records on Nov. 16.

The Disney Music Group shuttered the band’s only previous label, Lyric Street, in April.

Happy birthday

Among celebrity birthdays today: Blues guitarist Buddy Guy is 74. Paul Anka is 69. Jazz saxophonist David Sanborn is 65. Blues singer Otis Taylor is 62. Actor Ken Olin is 56. Actress Delta Burke is 54. Laurence Fishburne is 49. Lisa Kudrow is 47. Actress Vivica A. Fox is 46. Actor Terry Crews is 42. Director Christopher Nolan is 40. Actor Tom Green is 39. Hilary Swank is 36. Actress Jaime Pressly is 33. Actress Yvonne

Strahovski is 28.