{"id":209147,"date":"2010-01-21T14:24:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T19:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=89686"},"modified":"2010-01-21T14:24:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T19:24:04","slug":"omarion-%e2%80%9camerica%e2%80%99s-best-dance-crew%e2%80%9d-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/209147","title":{"rendered":"Omarion \u201cAmerica\u2019s Best Dance Crew\u201d Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"

America’s Best Dance Crew<\/em> is going to the Ice Box: R&B singing star and former boy bander Omarion has been tapped to replace accused child rapist Shane Sparks as a judge on the upcoming fifth season of Randy Jackson Presents: America’s Best Dance Crew<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The move comes after the choreographer was arrested on eight felony counts of suspicion of child molestation in October.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOmarion is one of the most accomplished, multi-talented young stars of his generation. His music and music videos have influenced hip-hop dance going back to his B2k days and in more recent years as a platinum-selling solo artist,\u201d<\/em> Liz Gateley, Senior Vice President of Series Development for MTV, said in a release Thursday. “He is an accomplished dancer, artist and actor who knows what makes a good dance crew performance. We are very excited for him to join Lil Mama and JC Chasez as our third judge.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

Omarion — who was recently dumped from Lil Wayne’s Young Money set — just seems happy to have a new gig!<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so excited to be a judge on MTV\u2019s \u2018America\u2019s Best Dance Crew,’\u201d<\/em> says Omarion. \u201cDancing and performing is what I do and being a judge on this show will allow me to give creative feedback to the newest and hottest dancers on the rise.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

Omarion takes his seat at the judge’s table when ABDC Season 5 premieress Thursday, Jan. 28 @ 10 PM ET\/PT on MTV.<\/p>\n

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America’s Best Dance Crew is going to the Ice Box: R&B singing star and former boy bander Omarion has been tapped to replace accused child rapist Shane Sparks as a judge on the upcoming fifth season of Randy Jackson Presents: America’s Best Dance Crew. The move comes after the choreographer was arrested on eight felony […]<\/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-209147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209147","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=209147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}