Simon Cowell is on medical leave from America’s Got Talent because he needed to get routine back surgery due to his electric bike accident in 2020.
Therefore, the talent show needs replacements while he is recovering. Today, they announced that Kenan Thompson will be sitting in his seat on Tuesday.
Hopefully, if he does a good job, Cowell will bring him back as a replacement next season. It would be nice to have an American-born judge for the first time since Julianne Hough and Gabrielle Union.
America’s Got Talent started its live shows last week, and now we are learning that Simon Cowell will be missing from the show for the next few weeks.
According to TMZ, he will be undergoing a routine surgery related to his 2020 back injury from an electric bike accident.
It is unclear how much time the creator of the show and head judge will need off, and who will replace him. I am sure we will learn more tomorrow when the talent competition series goes live.
Who do you think should replace him and sit next to Howie Mandel, Mel B, and Sofia Vergara? I think they should bring back Heidi Klum, who departed AGT to return to Project Runway.
Before Simon Cowell was judging contestants on shows like America’s Got Talent, he was a contestant on Sale of the Century. The 31-year-old was quite brilliant on the 1991 episode of the game show.
Simon Cowell was a guest on The Jennifer Hudson Show today, and her team had the perfect song for him to walk through the Spirit Tunnel to. What was it? The Greatest Show from The Greatest Showman!
While he is a showman who can pick the best acts for his circus, he is like P.T. Barnum and can’t do what they do! But the Ringmaster can still enjoy getting the attention from the crowd, and he did.
He told his old friend from his American Idol days, Jennifer Hudson, “The best way of coming on a show, seriously, I have ever done in my life.” And he has done a lot of shows through the decades.
Then he asked her if he could steal the idea for America’s Got Talent. She had one requirement for that to happen. What is it? That her people do it. And with that, they shook on it.
Will they be there? We will find out during AGT’s season finale episodes tomorrow and Wednesday! It is not like they have to travel far to get there. Warner Bros is across the street from Universal Studios, where the latter goes live!
A month ago, it was revealed that Heidi Klum was returning to Project Runway. So some wondered if she would be able to do America’s Got Talent and the fashion competition show.
Today, we got that answer. She cannot. So, instead, Mel B will be rejoining the talent competition show this season. The singer was previously a judge from the 8th-13th season.
England’s Scary Spice will sit alongside British Simon Cowell, Canadian Howie Mandel, and Colombian Sofia Vergara, and American Terry Crews will host.
Do you think you have what it takes to win? Then you can apply at the AGT Audition site.
AGT returns to NBC for its 20th season on May 27th.
