As American Idol Season 23 continues on the 2025 TV schedule, more and more contestants are getting cut each week, making the competition all the more brutal. However, it seems some brutal moments mayve taken place off-screen ater Ryan Seacrest made a specific Idol gaffe for what may be the first time ever.

Longtime American Idol viewers undoubtedly recognized the dress Carrie Underwood wore on the show on Monday night (April 28). Underwood made her highly-anticipated return to Idol as a judge for the first time this year,

Carrie Underwood's choice of dress for the American Idol finale is turning heads. The judge wowed audiences when she slipped into the exact same dress she wore for her momentous finale performance when she was a contestant on the show in 2005.