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Nashville Star‘s Shawn to John Rich: You’re Fired!

07/07/2008 at 12:00 AM EDT

One of the coolest things about NBC's Nashville Star is that the judges -- singers Jewel and John Rich and songwriter Jeffrey Steele -- also act as mentors to the country-singing contestants. Then again, for Shawn Mayer, a spitfire brunette from a town of 45 who has worked on a hog far and dreams of singing a duet with Garth Brooks, working with Rich (of hit-making duo Big & Rich), the show's resident Simon Cowell, wasn't something she was looking forward to. Watch a sneak peek of tonight's show, on which Rich dares her to fire him as her mentor -- and she does!

Tell us: will Shawn make it through tonight's double elimination?