{"id":392610,"date":"2010-03-05T10:50:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T15:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=95528"},"modified":"2010-03-05T10:50:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T15:50:24","slug":"christopher-ciccone-madonna%e2%80%99s-brother-joins-race-to-become-%e2%80%9camerican-idol%e2%80%9d-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/392610","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Ciccone, Madonna\u2019s Brother, Joins Race To Become \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/christopher-ciccone-slams-sister-madonna-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"christopher-ciccone-slams-sister-madonna\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-71634\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Madonna\u2019s brother, Christopher Ciccone, is desperate to get Simon Cowell\u2019s seat as a judge on <em>American Idol<\/em>. Ciccone, who has been his sister\u2019s assistant, backup dancer, stylist, and artistic director at various points throughout his career,  has launched a Facebook page \u2014 \u201cChristopher Ciccone for American Idol!&#8221; \u2014 to promote his campaign to join TV&#8217;s most-watched talent show.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad the page has drawn only 602 members!<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI think I can bring a particular kind of credibility to the show. I\u2019d be the only person sitting at the table who actually created a pop star from the beginning, and helped keep her there for 20 years,\u201d he told The New York Post&#8217;s<\/em> PageSix Column on Friday. <em>\u201cI know what it takes to make it,\u201d<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/zOKTvazVXwH_n4oGrTSGsUfh_bo\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/zOKTvazVXwH_n4oGrTSGsUfh_bo\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/zOKTvazVXwH_n4oGrTSGsUfh_bo\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/zOKTvazVXwH_n4oGrTSGsUfh_bo\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madonna\u2019s brother, Christopher Ciccone, is desperate to get Simon Cowell\u2019s seat as a judge on American Idol. Ciccone, who has been his sister\u2019s assistant, backup dancer, stylist, and artistic director at various points throughout his career, has launched a Facebook page \u2014 \u201cChristopher Ciccone for American Idol!&#8221; \u2014 to promote his campaign to join TV&#8217;s [&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-392610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392610","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=392610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}