Jennifer Lopez Is Also Leaving American Idol

By On 07/13/2012 · 148 Comments · In American Idol

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Jennifer Lopez confirms to Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS LA morning radio show that she is ALSO leaving American Idol. Steven Tyler announced his departure on Thursday.

After two years as a judge of the hit Fox television show Jennifer says, “The time has come.”

“I really have been torn,” says Jennifer, “I fell so in love with the show…I didn’t know I would be moved so emotionally…”

“I have my movies and my music…but it gets more complicated…as the kids get bigger. Something has to give,” she says, “I think, that’s where I am right now.”

“I could just keep doing Idol for the rest of my life, but that would be giving up a bunch of things,” Jennifer added, “We had an amazing run.”

“No matter what you guys need over there, I’m always here.”  Jlo is NOT ruling out appearing as a mentor once in a while.

Jennifer choked up as she discussed making the difficult decision, and swears it had nothing to do with money.

Listen at RyanSeacrest.com

 
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  • http://profile.yahoo.com/DJ4FPAE2BM4XDCNVQITJSS3S2Q Sue

    Taylor Swift writes many of her own songs. She might not be a good singer but she’s a star and will pull in a young audience.

  • Anonymous

    X-Factor US has the exact same format as X-Factor UK which has found many current stars. So I don’t know what the format has to do with anything, lol.

    I will just say that Idol can get a fantastic panel, but if they don’t solve the problem of having the same winner each year, most people will just end up being disappointed around finale time again.

    Only solution is to take away those damn instruments and go back to pre-season 7.

  • Anonymous

    I think Bono is a little busy with U2 not to mention trying to save the world to have the time to be an Idol judge :)

  • Anonymous

    Yes her videos were very classy! She’s a very classy and sexy woman. :)

  • Garrett Clayman

    very upset as well

  • Anonymous

     I don’t see why one must write their own music to be qualified to judge singing and artistic interpretation.  Believe it or not, one can be successful and talented at singing without being a song writer.  I would rather they just find someone who can actually sing, and has a good understanding of the industry.  Anything else is merely a nice side dish.

  • Anonymous

    Yep. You didn’t know she’s an actress? OMG She was nominated for a Golden Globe in the category “Best Actress”.

    She’d starred in movies directed by Steven Soderbergh, Oliver Stone, Francis Ford Coppola, Bob Rafelson etc. before she started her recording career.

    She’s worked with Jack Nicholson, Robin Williams, Sean Penn, Ralph Fiennes, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, Morgan Freeman, George Clooney, Richard Gere, Vince Vaughn, etc.

    She used to be one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood and she’s still the highest paid Latin actress in Hollywood.

    She’s one of the most successful romantic comedy actresses of our generation. The Wedding Planner, Maid In Manhattan, Shall We Dance, Monster-in-Law…

    She will star in the upcoming Taylor Hackford thriller ‘Parker’ with Jason Statham and Nick Nolte.

  • blackberryharvest

    After all that talk about how the X Factor gets female winners, I would lmao if a WGWG wins it this year.

    And Scotty and David Cook aren’t “the same” winners. Scotty and Lee are also completely different.

    Also the instruments have very little relevance to why they won. Scotty only played a few times-he would have won either way.

  • pj

    Bono, Cher, Madonna, Sting… all too big to ever do Idol.  I doubt Mariah will do it, but maybe.  Hard to see her wanting to do something that J-LO just left. 

    I like the Keith Urban idea. He’s obviously open to reality shows, and he’s talented and cute.  I didn’t watch the Voice he judged, but reports are good.

    I will not miss JLo or Steven.  I don’t miss Simon or Pauler either.  I wouldn’t miss Randy and I like the moving him to more of a mentor idea.

  • Anonymous

    Taylor Swift writes many of her own songs. She might not be a good singer but she’s a star and will pull in a young audience.

    True.  My only reservation with her is that, from the little I’ve seen of her, I don’t think she’d be comfortable judging.

  • OffLeash

    Keith Urban seems to be the most realistic option to be sure. And I won’t mind looking at him during his comments. :p

  • http://twitter.com/Gemini_Dolly J3$$!C@

    Taylor Swift would make a horrible judge. I dont think she could hurt a fly much less give honest critiques. 

    So happy Jennifer is leaving. She was a bore. And everything Steven heard was rainbows and sunshines. Its time to move on and maybe its time to scrap the show. Since Kelly and Carrie, a star has not been made and a woman will never win. 

  • pj

     She was also nominated for a Razzie as worst actress of the decade! 

  • breakdown

    Yea she has her movies and her music – thanks to Idol.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/DJ4FPAE2BM4XDCNVQITJSS3S2Q Sue

    Maybe a girl will have a better chance of winning if the cougers have more age appropriate eye candy to focus on.

  • OffLeash

    Now there’s an idea! That might work! LOL

  • pj

     Yes!  He’s a WGWG!  Perfect.  Although having eye candy didn’t get a girl to win the voice.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/DJ4FPAE2BM4XDCNVQITJSS3S2Q Sue

    Another more age appropriate hottie – Jon Bon Jovi. Now we gotta get Bieber in there too to distract the tweens, LOL!

  • http://twitter.com/Gemini_Dolly J3$$!C@

    If I had to hear one more time, “THAT GAVE ME GOOSIES” I was going to pull my hair out.  UGH. What an annoying phrase and she kept using it like she thinks shes being cute. No JLO you and your voice are annoying. 

    /rant off

  • OffLeash

    LOLOL!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_F3XJE5GRAUMYR7Y5RYZUW7SC4U md

    I liked Jennifer well enough despite my believing she was following Nigel’s storyline in critiquing Haley in the later rounds of S10. But I think her salary was ridiculous and huge sums make the judges more susceptible to corruption.

    Maybe being an Idol judge should come with a two-year term limit and immunity from being removed before your term is up. That would lead to more honest criticism (apart from being worried about their perception in the public).

    Or perhaps one judge should have immunity for life with guaranteed salary increases (percentage-wise) so they can play the brutally honest asshole.

  • Anonymous

    This is great news. I’m so glad she won’t be there next year.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XDQP2Y46M5B3OHOKALDDGDHQCM Leandro

    Then a WGWG will win again – White Guy Without Guitar. The instruments have nothing to do with it (or very few). The solution is attracting new kind of viewers.

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