Paula Abdul, Randy Jackson, Simon Cowell and Kara DioGuardi interviewed by Access Hollywood – VIDEO
Check out this short interview, from Access Hollywood, posted after the jump. It gives a hint of the chemistry we might find between Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell and new judge Kara DioGuardi once American Idol Season 8 begins in January. Kara is already giving Simon crap. Heh.
In the interview, both Simon Cowell and Ryan Seacrest hint that Simon will probably be the tie-breaker during the audition phase of the competition. And when asked where he’ll be sitting, Simon says, “between the two girls,” although I have a hard time believing he won’t have the last word. Ryan believes Kara will bring “a candor and unvarnished female point of view,” to the table. He adds, “She’s like the tough chick.” Paula behaves as if she single-handedly discovered Kara. Is that Kara rolling her eyes a little?
One more interesting tidbit. Ryan Seacrest did an interview with Tom O’Neil of the LA Times Gold Derby blog. It was mostly about Ryan hosting the Emmys. However, when O’Neil asked Ryan to remark on the changes Simon Cowell told reporters he wants to make now that Nigel Lythgoe has stepped down from production duties, Ryan remarked, “He told me he has his head wrapped around making sure the show doesn’t feel contrived and doesn’t feel predictable. And I think that that’s…very, very smart, and I think that that’s up to Simon, the producers and all of us to make sure we deliver a show that does have that element.”
Whatever that means.
Sources: Popdirt, A longer video of the same interview from TV Guide. LA Times.
Video after the JUMP…
Posted in Uncategorized
29 Responses to “Paula Abdul, Randy Jackson, Simon Cowell and Kara DioGuardi interviewed by Access Hollywood – VIDEO”
They should have invited Zack Werner from Canadian Idol to be the 4th AI judge cuz he and Simon are both blunt and hilarious!
In Britain, the worthy line is usually meant to convery an unsaid negative comment in the line of “worthy but….”, and more often then not, it’s “worthy but dull”. It is not a positive comment, and said when it is not quite appropriate to make a negative comment about something which is considered good.
I do not think adding this Kara person was a smart idea. I like her better than Paula already but this new format is taking away a lot from the original “American Idol”. They can change up everything else but messing with something that has been there for the past seven seasons and has held the show together seems dumb. Don’t get me wrong, Kara seems very smart and more qualified than both Randy and Paula put together but I can’t imagine another permanent judge. I have become so used to having three judges. Four is too much. If I wasn’t addicted to AI already I would be way turned off by this.
I predict that either Kara or Paula will be out of here by the start of season 9.
Everyone seems to be assuming that Kara is a missile pointed at Paula. But in terms of her background, she seems more like a missile pointed at Randy.