{"id":302434,"date":"2010-02-10T13:15:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T18:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=92613"},"modified":"2010-02-10T13:15:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T18:15:20","slug":"conan-o%e2%80%99brien-replacing-simon-cowell-on-%e2%80%9camerican-idol%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/302434","title":{"rendered":"Conan O\u2019Brien Replacing Simon Cowell On \u201cAmerican Idol?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Conan-OBrien-Simon-Cowell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14639\" title=\"Conan O'Brien Simon Cowell\" src=\"http:\/\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Conan-OBrien-Simon-Cowell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/simoncowell1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11615\" title=\"simoncowell1\" src=\"http:\/\/style.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/simoncowell1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conan O&#8217;Brien, jilted former host of NBC&#8217;s <em>The Tonight Show<\/em>, is the latest contender rumored to be in the running to replace Simon Cowell as a judge on <em>American Idol<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-92613\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/story\/ent\/amyandrews_gossipgirl\/conan-obrien-name-in-hat-to-replace-american-idol-simon-cowell-83887542.html\">Irish Central<\/a><\/em> celebrity spy Amy Andrews is reporting that <em>Idol<\/em> producers are considering casting the recently-unemployed O&#8217;Brien as a music critic when Cowell hangs up his spurs at the end of the show&#8217;s current 9th season.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Idol bosses think he\u2019d be a huge draw now after all that Leno fuss&#8230;.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Other celebs courted to possibly fill the empty chair on the judges panel include Elton John, Jamie Foxx, Piers Morgan, and Tommy Mottola.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/thOJdL2qgj8EcfDN5QjjEUcooxM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/thOJdL2qgj8EcfDN5QjjEUcooxM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/thOJdL2qgj8EcfDN5QjjEUcooxM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/thOJdL2qgj8EcfDN5QjjEUcooxM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conan O&#8217;Brien, jilted former host of NBC&#8217;s The Tonight Show, is the latest contender rumored to be in the running to replace Simon Cowell as a judge on American Idol. Irish Central celebrity spy Amy Andrews is reporting that Idol producers are considering casting the recently-unemployed O&#8217;Brien as a music critic when Cowell hangs up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302434","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\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}