{"id":6462,"date":"2011-05-09T15:12:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T19:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6462"},"modified":"2011-05-09T15:12:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T19:12:20","slug":"its-official-paula-abdul-joins-x-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6462","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Official! Paula Abdul Joins &#8216;X Factor&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox announced Sunday that former &#8220;American Idol&#8221; judge <strong>Paula Abdul<\/strong> is joining her former co-panelist <strong>Simon Cowell<\/strong> on his new singing competition &#8220;The X Factor.&#8221;<strong> Abdul<\/strong> will be the fourth judge, alongside <strong>Cheryl Cole <\/strong>and <strong>L.A. Reid<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis show would never have been the same without <strong>Paula<\/strong> and I can\u2019t believe I am saying this &#8212; I have missed her a lot, and I am thrilled she\u2019s on the show,\u201d said <strong>Cowell<\/strong> in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The two famously bickered on &#8220;American Idol&#8221; &#8212; with <strong>Abdul<\/strong> as the overly sympathetic judge, and <strong>Cowell<\/strong> as the caustic one &#8212; before she finally left after season eight. <strong>Cowell<\/strong> left &#8220;Idol&#8221; after season nine to launch &#8220;The X Factor,&#8221; which he produced and judged in the U.K.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox announced Sunday that former &#8220;American Idol&#8221; judge Paula Abdul is joining her former co-panelist Simon Cowell on his new singing competition &#8220;The X Factor.&#8221; Abdul will be the fourth judge, alongside Cheryl Cole and L.A. Reid. \u201cThis show would never have been the same without Paula and I can\u2019t believe I am saying this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}