recommendations from Faculty teaching members. Hosts & judges Aznil Haji Nawawi, who hosted the show for the first five seasons, announced his retirement as the host for Akademi Fantasia at the end of Season 5 due to scheduling conflicts. He was replaced by AC Mizal in Season 6 and seventh season. In Season 8, Sarimah Ibrahim and Jimmy Shanley were selected as the new hosts replacing AC Mizal. In season eight, Aznil Haji Nawawi returned to Akademi Fantasia as one of the judges. However, in the ninth season, he is appointed as the host, replacing Jimmy Shanley and Sarimah Ibrahim. Since season 10, Zizan Razak replaces Aznil Haji Nawawi while Faizal Ismail joined Zizan as a co-host from season 11. In season 12, Alif Satar became a new co-host replacing Faizal Ismail. As of the eleventh season, the current judges are Dato Ramli MS & Raja Azura. Previous judges include Kudsia Kahar, Fauziah Latiff, Ning Baizura, Khatijah Ibrahim, Edrie Hashim, Fauziah Ahmad Daud, Datuk Hattan, Edry Abdul Halim, Sharifah Amani and Roslan Aziz. Usually, an additional guest judge will be featured in every concert. Relationship with Astro Ria's entertainment news programmes Akademi Fantasia was very connected with Astro Ria's entertainment programme Trek Selebriti in the latter part of the 2000s. During AF season, students who are eliminated in every concert will be featured in this programme which showcases their life journey before and after being selected as an AF students. Following the promotion to host the weekly concerts of Akademi Fantasia, Jimmy Shanley, who has been hosting Trek Selebriti since it first aired, was later replaced by Khairil Azam Pilus, who was a runner-up of the seventh season of the Akademi Fantasia. which later became the last season of Trek Selebriti. After Trek Selebriti has ended, Propaganza has become main programme to feature all eliminated student from Season 10. In 2014, H!LIVE, a then-brand new entertainment news programme that reports on celebrity news and gossip has become the major programme to broadcast about AF2014. Criticism The main controversy during Akademi Fantasia season is about the judging system which is solely based on the audience through SMS and Astro decoder without professional jury. This judging system is heavily criticised because of allegations that most audience only vote for their favourite contestants, as well as judging the contestants based on their looks rather than their talents. When the production team announced that