A disclaimer says that any similarities to the real show are 'coincidental'

The dark reality of American Idol? From producers sabotaging contestants' chances to judges feuding over dressing room size, new novel 'exposes ugly truths'. An anonymous Herve leger bandage author has written a 'tell-all' book called Elimination Night based on the tenth season of American Idol. 

Written with 'firsthand knowledge of the inner workings of a top TV talent show,' the book's characters bear obvious similarities to the show's judges. As American Idol gears up for its 12th season, a new anonymous tell-all book about the inner workings of the hit reality singing competition is set to be released.

Elimination Night, a thinly-veiled account of the talent show's tenth season, is touted as a work of fiction; however the book describes itself as 'so searingly accurate... that it had to be written anonymously.'

Though names have been changed (even the show is renamed Project Icon), with a disclaimer that any similarities to the real show are 'coincidental', the book's characters bear an overtly suspicious resemblance to judges Jennifer Lopez, Steven Tyler, Randy Jackson and host Ryan Seacrest.

Elimination Night: A disclaimer says that any similarities to the real show are 'coincidental', but the book's characters bear an overtly suspicious resemblance to judges Steven Tyler, Jennifer Lopez, and Randy Jackson.

Season ten was the first year without Simon Cowell on the panel of judges, with two new stars taking the reigns: Mr Tyler and Ms Lopez.

Written by an unidentified author with 'firsthand knowledge of the inner workings of a top TV talent show,' Elimination Night follows Sasha, a lowly production assistant responsible for the show's new aging rock star judge Joey Lovecraft and Queens-born diva, Bibi Vasquez.