Good news, Paula Abdul fans — she’s making her comeback, and it’s gonna be big! And no doubt embarrassing! TV Guide says

A tipster tells me that the American Idol judge, who hasn’t released an album of new material since 1995, is in talks to perform… during the network’s Super Bowl XLII telecast!

According to my source, the onetime Laker Girl is already in rehearsals for the video to her duet with Randy Jackson, the first single from his upcoming Music Club Vol. 1 CD. If the Super Bowl deal goes through, she would likely use the same choreography during her Feb. 3 Astroturf comeback.

If you haven’t already, go ahead and watch the above clip of Paula attempting to hawk her jewelery on QVC. If it’s any testament to the kind of live performance we can expect to see on game day (the 35 second mark’s the real highlight), then we’re in for a real treat. Like “shooting a rhinoceros full of tranquilzer darts and letting him stagger around a stage three lines behind on the lipsyncing and flailing his appendages like a windmill in a tornado” kind of treat. Usually you only see those kinds of performances at a hospital for the mentally ill or in a cardboard box housing a vagrant. I can’t make any promises that this one won’t smell like urine and cheap booze, too.

Classic Paula satellite interview footage: