{"id":661293,"date":"2010-02-11T07:01:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T12:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=92714"},"modified":"2010-02-11T07:01:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T12:01:14","slug":"ellen-will-leave-%e2%80%9camerican-idol%e2%80%9d-if-howard-stern-is-hired-to-replace-simon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/661293","title":{"rendered":"Ellen Will Leave \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d If Howard Stern Is Hired To Replace Simon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Stern would be happy to replace Simon Cowell on the <em>American Idol<\/em> judging panel &#8212; if program bosses promise to pay him enough &#8212; but <em>Idol<\/em> panelist Kara DioGuardi isn&#8217;t the only series judge that feels casting the notorious shock jock would be grave mistake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/INFphoto_1120096.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14605\" title=\"Howard Stern\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/INFphoto_1120096-748x1024.jpg?resize=255%2C340\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ellen.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9354\" title=\"OSCARS\/\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/ellen.jpg?resize=240%2C340\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/entertainment\/zwecker\/2041593,CST-FTR-zp11.article\">The Chicago Sun-Times<\/a><\/em> claims freshman <em>A.I.<\/em> expert Ellen DeGeneres has threatened to leave the series if Stern joins the team. <\/p>\n<p>The paper writes:<em> &#8220;According to a veteran &#8216;Idol&#8217; staffer, &#8216;Ellen has told just about anyone who will listen that she&#8217;s totally opposed to the [Stern] idea,&#8221; making it clear if he is hired, she&#8217;d leave the show&#8230;&#8230;&#8217;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But Ellen may not have to worry about packing up her dressing room just yet, because a Fox executive says the chances of Howard being hired are next to nil.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Stern thing makes for good chatter, but is such a remote possibility, I can\u2019t see it ever happening \u2014 at least in this life,&#8221;<\/em> the exec said.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, music mogul Simon revealed he is leaving the TV talent show to launch an American version of <em>The X Factor<\/em>. Since then, there has been much speculation about who will fill his spot on <em>Idol<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Stern would be happy to replace Simon Cowell on the American Idol judging panel &#8212; if program bosses promise to pay him enough &#8212; but Idol panelist Kara DioGuardi isn&#8217;t the only series judge that feels casting the notorious shock jock would be grave mistake. The Chicago Sun-Times claims freshman A.I. expert Ellen DeGeneres [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2M21","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}