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Paula Abdul won’t be hosting a reboot of Star Search<\/em> after all.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Rumors have been abuzz this week that the former American Idol<\/em> judge would front a revival of the popular TV talent show that originally aired between 1983 and 1985, but the deal did not go through, according to Reuters.com.<\/p>\n \u201cA deadline was given and no agreement was reached. And she was offered a lot of money\u2026It looks like we hit the end of the road with Paula.”<\/em><\/p>\n Abdul was reluctant to take a accept less than $5 million to host the show, and ABC was reluctant to offer her an unprecedented salary for launching an untested reality show into a marketplace filled with similar successful series.<\/p>\n The failed deal makes it unlikely that Star Search<\/em> will return to the small screen anytime soon, since ABC’s interest in reviving the program was contingent on Paula’s participation in the show.<\/p>\n Paula, on the other hand, is still considered a front-runner to join best pal Simon Cowell when he launches the US version of his British hit, The X Factor<\/em>, in September 2011.<\/p>\n Paula Abdul won’t be hosting a reboot of Star Search after all. Rumors have been abuzz this week that the former American Idol judge would front a revival of the popular TV talent show that originally aired between 1983 and 1985, but the deal did not go through, according to Reuters.com. \u201cA deadline was given […]<\/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-446339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446339","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=446339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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