{"id":717631,"date":"2010-04-15T17:14:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T21:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=100771"},"modified":"2010-04-15T17:14:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T21:14:06","slug":"%e2%80%9camerican-idol%e2%80%9d-wants-paula-abdul-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/717631","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAmerican Idol\u201d Wants Paula Abdul Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Could Paula Abdul be headed back to the judges’ panel of American Idol<\/em>? In Touch Weekly<\/a><\/em> tattles seem to think so. While many A.I. fans would love to see the ’80s pop star join former frenemy Simon Cowell on the US adaptation of Britain’s The X Factor<\/em>, Idol bosses are reportedly wooing Paula in hopes that she’ll bring her slurred speech and emotional outbursts back to TV’s most watched talent show.<\/p>\n

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Getting Paula back is even more important to FOX producers now that ABC’s Dancing with the Stars<\/em> has been consistently gaining on Idol<\/em> in the ratings arena. And even more viewers are expected to bid farewell to the series when Cowell retires his sharp-tongued critiques on next month’s ninth season finale.<\/p>\n

“They want Paula back,”<\/em> the insider told In Touch<\/em> this week. “They’re not sure if she’d be the fifth judge, but they are talking to her. People tuned in to see Paula’s wacky antics and her chemistry with Simon. The show is just not as much fun to watch without her.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Could Paula Abdul be headed back to the judges’ panel of American Idol? In Touch Weekly tattles seem to think so. While many A.I. fans would love to see the ’80s pop star join former frenemy Simon Cowell on the US adaptation of Britain’s The X Factor, Idol bosses are reportedly wooing Paula in hopes […]<\/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-717631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-30GH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717631","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=717631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}