{"id":635,"date":"2011-06-16T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/the_prophet_of_pop\/?p=635"},"modified":"2011-06-16T13:00:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T17:00:01","slug":"is-jennifer-lopez-leaving-american-idol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/the_prophet_of_pop\/2011\/06\/is-jennifer-lopez-leaving-american-idol.html","title":{"rendered":"Is Jennifer Lopez Leaving American Idol?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Hit &#8220;Like&#8221; to share this with your friends!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/the_prophet_of_pop\/files\/2011\/06\/jenniferlopez2.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/the_prophet_of_pop\/files\/2011\/06\/jenniferlopez21.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-637\" title=\"jenniferlopez2\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/117\/2011\/06\/jenniferlopez21-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite intimate involvement in this years American Idol resurgence, emotional judge Jennifer Lopez <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/news\/jennifer-lopez-on-the-fence-about-american-idol-return-20110615\" target=\"_blank\">may not return for a second season<\/a>. \u00a0It seems that the &#8220;most beautiful woman in the world&#8221; may choose instead to return to acting, while continuing to make pop records. \u00a0J-Lo had previously signed a year contract valued at 12 million dollars, which sounds an awful lot like my contract with Beliefnet!<\/p>\n<p>This would be a huge blow to a show that seemed revitalized last season thanks in part to a slick new cast of judges. \u00a0The three of them had solid chemistry, and Lopez was able to become attached to the contestants without seeming as crazy as Paula Abdul or as frigid as Kara Dioguardi. \u00a0At least it seems J-Lo wouldn&#8217;t be leaving the show in a blaze of controversy like those two did, but it certainly would look like she used American Idol just to remind the world that Jennifer Lopez exists.<\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s the case then well played J-Lo, well played.<\/p>\n<p>Related &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/the_prophet_of_pop\/2011\/05\/american-idol-james-durbin-heads-home.html\" target=\"_blank\">American Idol James Durbin Heads Home<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/theprophetofpop\" target=\"_blank\">Follow the Prophet of Pop on\u00a0<strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/prophetofpop\" target=\"_blank\">on\u00a0<strong>Facebook<\/strong>!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hit &#8220;Like&#8221; to share this with your friends! Despite intimate involvement in this years American Idol resurgence, emotional judge Jennifer Lopez may not return for a second season. \u00a0It seems that the &#8220;most beautiful woman in the world&#8221; may choose instead to return to acting, while continuing to make pop records. \u00a0J-Lo had previously signed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,116,57],"tags":[18,652,649,648,651,164,135,647,650,654,653],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-idol-fever","category-music-on-tv","category-news-in-your-face","tag-american-idol","tag-idol-judges","tag-idol-news","tag-is-j-lo-leaving-idol","tag-j-lo-idol","tag-james-durbin","tag-jennifer-lopez","tag-jennifer-lopez-leaving-idol","tag-jennifer-lopez-movie","tag-kara-dioguardi-idol","tag-paula-abdul-idol"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is Jennifer Lopez Leaving American Idol? - The Prophet of Pop<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/the_prophet_of_pop\/2011\/06\/is-jennifer-lopez-leaving-american-idol.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is Jennifer Lopez Leaving American Idol? - The Prophet of Pop\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hit &#8220;Like&#8221; to share this with your friends! 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