The Country Vibe, the website that broke the Brad Paisley story, reports that American Idol honchos met with another country music star last week:
We have also learned that another country star met with Idol executives last week. But there are pop stars being considered as well for the seat left vacant by Steven Tyler. Nick Jonas’ name was brought into the rumor mill mix last week. While the decision is still up in the air we hear an announcement could come as early as this week.
I would be really surprised if the announcement was made this week with the Olympics dominating the news cycle. FOX has all of their summer shows on hiatus in the duration. They’ll wait for Ryan Seacrest to come back to the states (he’s in London covering the games for NBC) before any official announcement is made.
But it does seem clear that Idol is very serious about adding a country star to its judges’ panel. It appears to be just a matter of who.
