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Paula Abdul’s manager went to the
LA Times, to tell them that it doesn’t look she will be returning to American Idol as a Judge because as of yet they have not have not received any proposal for her return.
“Very sadly, it does not appear that she’s going to be back on ‘Idol,’ ” David Sonenberg, Abdul’s manager, told The Times when contacted about the judge’s contract negotiations.
With auditions for the ninth season due to start Aug. 6, Sonenberg says he doesn’t even have a proposal for a new contract from FremantleMedia and 19 Entertainment, the production companies behind the show. The new season is scheduled to premiere in January.
“I find it under these circumstances particularly unusual; I think unnecessarily hurtful,” he said of the contract holdup. “I find it kind of unconscionable and certainly rude and disrespectful that they haven’t stepped up and said what they want to do.”
“She’s not a happy camper as a result of what’s going on. She’s hurt. She’s angry,” Sonenberg said. “I think at this point we’re going to be considering everything, including some kind of a competition show. She has tremendous ideas for a whole variety of shows.”
She is not the only one who is not a happy camper, I would be beyond upset to lose her on the show. There are one 3 people AI can’t live without and they are Simon Cowell, Ryan Seacrest and Paula Abdul. The rest of them could go bye-bye and I wouldn’t care. Would you still watch American Idol without the unpredictable Paula Abdul? She was the fun part because you never knew what she was going to be like and what she was going to say.
