With her contract ready to expire on American Idol, judge Paula Abdul may be critiquing her last season of the hit reality show. We find it interesting that she doesn’t think anyone will be able to replace her. We agree Paula – but probably not for the same reasons.
With each new season there comes change. This season the show stopped having celebrity judges and brought on a permanent 4th judge, Kara DioGuardi. That move was immediately followed by rumors that the new judge was being groomed to take Paula’s place.
On Thursday night you can catch an Abdul interview on the subject. Paula sat down recently to discuss the show with Cynthia McFadden on ABC’s Nightline. Here are a few excerpts:
“I love the show, I do. I love what I do on the show… It’s taken me a while to get comfortable in my own skin with the show.” When asked about her fellow judge, Simon Cowell, she called him “a bully, a masterful bully.” On the subject of being replaced by Kara, she replied, “I don’t think anyone can. First of all, Kara says ‘I could never replace you.'”
Four judges has proven to be a bad decision, from our perspective. The shows have been running overtime because of the time consuming critique by four opinionated personalities. Last week they tried to work in teams, with only two judging each contestant. That fell flat, so it was back to the full field of judging for each performance this week.
Paula really could phone in her commentary. She loves what the contestants are wearing and loves how hard they work, and she loves their attitude…..the cheerleader act is getting OLD. Just ask Simon Cowell, who feels compelled to bad mouth every word that she spews – which, come to think of it, is getting tiresome as well.
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