Ian Dickson

Ian "Dicko" Dickson (born 28 March 1963 as Ian Ross Perrygrove in Birmingham, England) is a music industry and television personality in Australia. He is best known as a judge on Australian Idol.

In the early 1980s he completed a degree in politics from Nottingham University. He met his wife, Mel Bell, in Bristol around the same time. She gave him his jump start in the music industry. He began working for several record companies, he started working in the music industry. In 2001, he moved to Sydney to take up the position of General Manager of Marketing for BMG Australia, and in 2003 took up his best known role, as the "bastard judge" on Australian Idol in the first and second seasons.

He was Australia's judge at the first World Idol in December 2003.

Near the end of the 2004 series, it was announced he would be leaving Australia Idol (and Network Ten) to take up a job at the Seven Network. The station gave the vague statement he was hired "to create entertainment-based shows". In early November it was stated his first role was judging entries for season two of My Restaurant Rules.

He is also known for his infamous racial slur against Germany when he said on-air that a German version of My Restaurant Rules had been made, called "My Race Rules".