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“I won’t be returning to ‘The X Factor’ next season,” show judge Paula Abdul said Tuesday afternoon in a statement, bringing the Fox singing competition’s body count to three.
“I’ve learned through my longevity in this industry that business decisions often times override personal considerations. Simon and I, along with Fox and Fremantle, have been communicating about this for a while now, and I have absolute understanding of the situation,” Abdul added.
“The situation” is that last fall, creator Simon Cowell delivered to the network only a successful show — not the 20 million-viewer ratings behemoth he’d bragged it would be.
Source: Washington Post
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"Paula will take over for Priscilla Lopez in one of the leading roles," an inside source tells RadarOnline.com exclusively. "It's always been Abdul's dream to star on Broadway. Paula has been in talks with producers for several weeks and made a special overnight trip to New York on March 17 just to see the successful Broadway show."
The musical centers on a group of people living in New York's Dominican-American neighborhood of Washington Heights. It debuted in 2008 to rave reviews and was nominated for 13 Tony awards.
"High School Musical" producer Kenny Ortega apparently helped Abdul get the gig. "Seems as if Ortega wants Paula involved in this project," the source says. "Ortega is hot to have her choreograph the film version."
Abdul will play Camilia, the mother of the main character Nina, who dreams of owning a restaurant. She is scheduled to be in the cast for several weeks.
Source: Radar Online
"I have really great ideas," Abdul told "Extra" Monday from her cousin's new store. Abdul, 47, said she hopes to do a talk show in the next two to three years.
"It would be fun and quirky and it would be insightful," she said. "It would be fun to jam with the band and have amazing guests and introduce amazing different formats on the show."
The Grammy winner is confident in the potential project.
"I feel I would be really good at it. I have the ability to connect with people on a level," Abdul explained. "I've proven to pierce the heartstrings, but also to be celebratory and bring out the best in people."
Abdul respects Winfrey and calls her a "phenomenon" who "broke barriers and let the path for other women to be empowered."
She added, "Like 'American Idol,' there's a place and time that makes history. That's Oprah."
Source: WB
Now she's followed her Twitter revelation that she will not be back on "Idol" with yet another announcement.
She tweets that she's been pegged to host the VH1 Divas concert, which returns Sept. 17 with a new batch of diva-licious female stars after a four-year hiatus from the small screen.
This year's diva crop includes Adele, "Idol" alum Kelly Clarkson, Miley Cyrus, Leona Lewis and "Idol" winner Jordin Sparks.
Source: LA Times Blogs
Sources tell ET that Abdul is in talks to guest star on the popular ABC show.
Source: Et Online
"With sadness in my heart, I've decided not to return to #IDOL," Ms. Adbul wrote on Twitter.
"I'll miss nurturing all the new talent," she wrote, "but most of all being a part of a show that I helped from day 1 become an international phenomenon."
Source: Media Decoder
Abdul will play a courtroom judge when she guest stars in September on the Lifetime original series "Drop Dead Diva," about a vain model whose departed soul ends up in the body of an intelligent, full-figured attorney, says People.com.
Abdul's judge presides over a case in which a shop declines to stock its shelves with plus-sized clothes.
Other stars set to guest on the show, which debuts July 12, include Liza Minnelli, Nia Vardalos, Rosie O'Donnell, Tim Gunn and Delta Burke, says People.
Source: ET
The American Idol judge said that her dependency began after she started taking painkillers for a series of injuries dating from her days as a cheerleader and dancer.
But she is now free of addiction following a stint in rehab, Paula told Ladies' Home Journal.
She checked herself into the La Costa Resort and Spa last autumn in a bid to wean her off heavy duty painkillers.
Discussing the experience she told Ladies' Home Journal: "I could have killed myself ... withdrawal - it's the worst thing."
"I was freezing cold, then sweating hot, then chattering and in so much pain, it was excruciating.
"But at my very core, I did not like existing the way I had been."
Source: AP
"You do not take somebody in that room that you believe is a danger to herself or a danger to Paula," Nigel Lythgoe told PEOPLE at Thursday's Superstars of Dance press day in Los Angeles. "That would not enter our heads".
On Nov. 11, police discovered Goodspeed dead of an apparent suicide outside of Abdul's Los Angeles home.
"The very fact that this happened, I'm really sad for her family," said Lythgoe. "It happened about four weeks ago. For it to come back four weeks later, I'm really sad we're still talking about it."
Source: People
Abdul claims producers on the show allowed Paula Goodspeed to audition on three separate occasions, knowing she had stalked the star for 17 years.
And she accuses broadcaster Fox of shooting footage at her home, which effectively showed fans how to get access to the Sherman Oaks estate.
Speaking on talk show host Barbara Walters' Sirius Satellite radio show on Monday night, Abdul said, "She came to the audition. I said, 'This girl is a stalker of mine. Please do not let her in.' I was shaking.
"The producers thought, for entertainment value, it would be funny. Fun for them to cause me stress. It would make good television.
"If you look at the audition on YouTube, you'll see I couldn't even look up.
"But it wasn't just once. She showed up again in Las Vegas and she showed up the following year."
Abdul adds, "(Then) Fox broadcasting literally went to my house and gave my address away and showed how easy it is to break in."
The 45-year-old also reveals Goodspeed wrote her disturbing letters threatening her life.
Abdul told Walters, "The letters that were written were about bodily harm. She said that the only way I will serve my purpose is when I am up in heaven being her guardian angel."
When Walters asked why Abdul was still working on the show she replied, "Well, I'm still under contract."
Source: SF Gate
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