{"id":213782,"date":"2010-01-22T17:52:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T22:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=89945"},"modified":"2010-01-22T17:52:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T22:52:15","slug":"jamie-foxx-madonna-courted-to-replace-simon-on-%e2%80%9camerican-idol%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/213782","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Foxx, Madonna Courted To Replace Simon On \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>American Idol<\/em> creator Simon Fuller is on the hunt for a big name to replace Simon Cowell when the music mogul exits the nation&#8217;s most-watched show at the end of the current season. In fact, Oscar-winning singer\/actor Jamie Foxx and The Queen of Pop herself, Madonna, are being courted to replace Cowell, who&#8217;ll leave the show in May, <em>Idol<\/em> snitches blab in the Feb. 1 issue of <em>Life &#038; Style Weekly<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Jamie-Foxx-Is-A-Taylor-Lautner-Fan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14198\" title=\"Jamie-Foxx-Is-A-Taylor-Lautner-Fan\" src=\"http:\/\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Jamie-Foxx-Is-A-Taylor-Lautner-Fan.jpg\" alt=\"Jamie-Foxx-Is-A-Taylor-Lautner-Fan\" width=\"249\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/madonnaribbonlife.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11378\" title=\"madonnaribbonlife\" src=\"http:\/\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/madonnaribbonlife.jpg\" alt=\"madonnaribbonlife\" width=\"247\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interscope Records co-founder Jimmy Iovine is also rumored to be a strong contender for the judging job. Cowell is leaving show to bring his British smash hit show <em>The X Factor<\/em> stateside.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/inINW9XmScS4ply2hg-sg6u-iaA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/inINW9XmScS4ply2hg-sg6u-iaA\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/inINW9XmScS4ply2hg-sg6u-iaA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/inINW9XmScS4ply2hg-sg6u-iaA\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Idol creator Simon Fuller is on the hunt for a big name to replace Simon Cowell when the music mogul exits the nation&#8217;s most-watched show at the end of the current season. In fact, Oscar-winning singer\/actor Jamie Foxx and The Queen of Pop herself, Madonna, are being courted to replace Cowell, who&#8217;ll leave 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-213782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213782","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=213782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}