{"id":151024,"date":"2010-01-07T19:09:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T00:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=87883"},"modified":"2010-01-07T19:09:22","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T00:09:22","slug":"simon-cowell-signs-paula-abdul-to-4-5-million-a-year-contract-with-%e2%80%9cthe-x-factor%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/151024","title":{"rendered":"Simon Cowell Signs Paula Abdul To $4.5 Million-A-Year Contract With \u201cThe X Factor?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready for another season of Simon and Paula&#8217;s signature bickering &#8212; on the US adaptation of <em>The X Factor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Paula Abdul has allegedly inked a $4.5 million contract to bring her loopy commentary to the judges panel on an American version of Simon&#8217;s hit UK talent show, <em>The X Factor<\/em>. That&#8217;s interesting, considering the star walked away from her post at <em>American Idol<\/em> because she failed to secure the $10 million-a-year payday she was vying for. <\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Paula isn&#8217;t very good at gambling, is she?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Paula-Abdul-Judge-On-American-X-Factor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14356\" title=\"Paula Abdul Judge On American X Factor\" src=\"http:\/\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Paula-Abdul-Judge-On-American-X-Factor.jpg\" alt=\"Paula Abdul Judge On American X Factor\" width=\"559\" height=\"326\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-87883\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A FOX tipster revealed to <em>The National Enquirer&#8217;s<\/em> Mike Walker: <em>&#8220;Simon flew Paula to London and wined and dined her relentlessly over the course of several days, even introducing her to everyone who works on X Factor. But what really clinched the deal was Simon&#8217;s pledge that she wouldn&#8217;t have to deal with all the nonsense and infighting that she hated on Idol.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The X Factor America <\/em> will premiere in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/_XfcN2tn7WkdVhKUUpHRRXnZRhU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/_XfcN2tn7WkdVhKUUpHRRXnZRhU\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/_XfcN2tn7WkdVhKUUpHRRXnZRhU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/_XfcN2tn7WkdVhKUUpHRRXnZRhU\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready for another season of Simon and Paula&#8217;s signature bickering &#8212; on the US adaptation of The X Factor. Paula Abdul has allegedly inked a $4.5 million contract to bring her loopy commentary to the judges panel on an American version of Simon&#8217;s hit UK talent show, The X Factor. That&#8217;s interesting, considering the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}