{"id":2448881,"date":"2019-09-18T15:53:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T21:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=886880"},"modified":"2019-09-18T15:53:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T21:53:11","slug":"watch-kelly-clarkson-reunite-with-original-american-idol-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-kelly-clarkson-reunite-with-original-american-idol-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Kelly Clarkson Reunite With Original \u2018American Idol\u2019 Judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/the-kelly-clarkson-show-ai-judges.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kelly-clarkson\/\">Kelly Clarkson\u2019s<\/a> new talk show premiered earlier this month, and she\u2019s already brought on three important celebrities from her life: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/simon-cowell\/\" id=\"auto-tag_simon-cowell\" data-tag=\"simon-cowell\">Simon Cowell<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/paula-abdul\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paula-abdul\" data-tag=\"paula-abdul\">Paula Abdul<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/randy-jackson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_randy-jackson\" data-tag=\"randy-jackson\">Randy Jackson<\/a>, the three original judges of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/american-idol\/\" id=\"auto-tag_american-idol\" data-tag=\"american-idol\">American Idol<\/a><\/em> who helped propel Clarkson into the show\u2019s very first breakout star.<\/p>\n<p>In their reunion interview, Cowell pointed out that the feeling was mutual. \u201cI actually, genuinely do not believe we would be sitting here today if you hadn\u2019t entered the show that year,\u201d he said, to applause from the audience. \u201cThe whole premise of the show was, we had to find a star who was gonna sell records. We found some great people that whole year, but when you delivered that moment on that first live show, and you sang that winning song at the end\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a game changer,\u201d Abdul added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe looked at each other at the end of the finale and said, \u2018Wow, this thing is really gonna work,&#8217;\u201d said Jackson. \u201cI think that was the moment that we knew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clarkson won the first season of&nbsp;<em>American Idol<\/em> and remains one of the top-selling acts to come out of the reality show. She&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/stevie-nicks-billie-eilish-kacey-musgraves-memorabilia-reverb-auction-835077\/\">recently donated<\/a> memorabilia to the Girls Rock Reverb Gives Auction, along with a slew of other prominent women artists like Kacey Musgraves, Stevie Nicks, Billie Eilish, Mavis Staples, Dolly Parton and more.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kelly-clarkson-american-idol-talk-show-886880\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Clarkson\u2019s new talk show premiered earlier this month, and she\u2019s already brought on three important celebrities from her life: Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson, the three original judges of American Idol who helped propel Clarkson into the show\u2019s very first breakout star. In their reunion interview, Cowell pointed out that the feeling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 01:15:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}