Nigel Lythgoe Disses Simon Cowell’s “Winner’s Singoff” Idea

By On 02/17/2012 · 103 Comments · In American Idol, The Voice, X Factor

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Simon Cowell wants to pit the winners of American Idol, X Factor and The Voice against each other, but Nigel Lythgoe wants none of it!  Plus, Nigel “tweeted along” with last night’s show–I post a few highlights. Read on!

Simon Cowell tweeted last night, “Maybe the winner of @TheXFactorUSA this yr should compete with winner of The Voice & Idol in a super final. Just a thought. I’d be up for it”

Wow. That’s such a terrible idea! Obviously, Nigel Lythgoe thinks it is too. His snarky response? “@simoncowell suggests the IDOL winner should take on the voice and x-factor winners. The problem is the Idol winner will be a star by then.”

Oh snap! He’s absolutely right, of course. We’ll see if X Factor can launch solid careers for any of their alums (My money is on young Astro), but the bigger point is that once a contestant leaves Idol, it’s on to a career and no looking back.

While I can imagine Mark Burnett setting up his no-career alums in “all-star” competitions, like he does endlessly on Survivor, I would hope Idol never resorts to such a gimmick. Actually a few years ago they considered it, but nobody noteworthy wanted to come back, so the idea was trashed.

Check out a couple of tidbits from Nigel’s tweet-along during last night’s Idol (@dizzyfeet) (He disagreed with the eliminations of Nick Boddington and Schyler Dixon)

I don’t agree with a lot of the cuts the Judges make on tonight’s show. It’s subjective but I think the final cuts are heartbreaking.

Any thoughts on the first Dedicated to the One I Love group with Chase Likens?[CHASE IS A STRONG TALENT]

Jermaine has one of my favorite voices in this year’s competition.

There’s something about Hallie that reminds me of Marilyn Monroe.

Nick Boddington looks a little like Ellen. I thought he should have stayed

I hated her being cut. She’d better come back next year. I thought she was a little star! (He’s talking about Schyler)

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  • Anonymous

    It pains me to say this but it looks like Simon’s boy band (from the Brit X Factor) One Direction is going to be huge in the US. So it is in the realm of possibility that S2 of the XF could produce a big star. Just saying.

  • hcpoirot

    Terrible idea from Simon. He is really becoming more despearate.

    After winning this talent show, you need to expand your music careers like performing in bigger stage and not retreat back to competition.

    Even Lee D will not go back to the competition again. And you think Kelly C, Carrie, Fantasia etc etc will do this again?

    Even Scotty will not doing this. He already got a platinum album . His next move its to make his career music forward and not backward.

  • http://www.facebook.com/masewallace Mase Wallace

    nah

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