{"id":566306,"date":"2010-05-17T01:36:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T05:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=104553"},"modified":"2010-05-17T01:36:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T05:36:22","slug":"paula-abdul-demanding-3-million-advance-to-join-%e2%80%9cthe-x-factor%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/566306","title":{"rendered":"Paula Abdul Demanding $3 Million Advance To Join \u201cThe X Factor\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/simoncowell1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"simoncowell1\" width=\"250\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-34196\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Paula-Abdul-Cheerleading-Show-On-The-Las-Vegas-Strip-500x671.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Paula-Abdul-Cheerleading-Show-On-The-Las-Vegas-Strip\" width=\"240\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-69049\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Out of work and off the Hollywood radar, is Paula Abdul strapped for cash? Tinseltown tattles say the &#8220;Straight Up&#8221; singer is demanding $3 million in advance to join the judges panel of Simon Cowell&#8217;s <em>The X Factor<\/em> in 2012. While Paula is eager to trade barbs with Cowell on the tube once again, she refuses to join the potential juggarnaut unless he forks over a few fistfuls of dough in advance, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalenquirer.com\/celebrity\/68645\"><em>National Enquirer<\/em> insider<\/a> claims.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-104553\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPaula really wants to reunite with Simon on his new show next year. But she thinks he needs to either put up \u2013 or shut up!\u201d<\/em> the tipster reveals.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul left <em>Idol<\/em> last August after stalled contract negotiations with FOX. She was replaced by Ellen DeGeneres. Earlier this year, the star reportedly snubbed a deal to front a planned revival of the classic talent show <em>Star Search<\/em> over a salary dispute.<\/p>\n<p>Cowell will leave <em>American Idol<\/em> at the end of the current season to adapt <em>X Factor<\/em> for US TV. The popular British series that catapulted international songbird Leona Lewis to fame in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/_dU_CIK-VJfuVJy7VeiF4iTO41c\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/_dU_CIK-VJfuVJy7VeiF4iTO41c\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/_dU_CIK-VJfuVJy7VeiF4iTO41c\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/_dU_CIK-VJfuVJy7VeiF4iTO41c\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of work and off the Hollywood radar, is Paula Abdul strapped for cash? Tinseltown tattles say the &#8220;Straight Up&#8221; singer is demanding $3 million in advance to join the judges panel of Simon Cowell&#8217;s The X Factor in 2012. While Paula is eager to trade barbs with Cowell on the tube once again, she [&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-566306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566306","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=566306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}