A staffer on the smash FOX series American Idol has been blabbing about a network-sanctioned fix that will see four audience favorites battling it out for the title of Idol 2009 in the final weeks of the competition.

One of the hit show’s staffers is running around telling anyone who’ll listen that the team of producers and judges has already picked the final four contestants — despite the fact that 11 kids are still battling to be the latest pop star, the New York Daily News reported Tuesday.

The female AI worker told a “group of people that the last four are going to be Danny Gokey, Lil Rounds, Adam Lambert and Alexis Grace…..”