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- In a flashback interview on the Jennifer Hudson Present, Paula Abdul opened up about her relationship with Simon Cowell on American Idol
- The star joked that she had “spikes” on her footwear to kick Cowell underneath the judges desk
- Abdul served as a decide on the singing competitors present with Cowell for eight seasons
Paula Abdul will get a kick out of pal Simon Cowell.
In a 2023 clip from the Jennifer Hudson Present, which was shared to its YouTube channel on Wednesday, Aug. 13, the “Straight Up” singer recalled working with Cowell again in her American Idol days.
“Again then Simon wasn’t too good,” Hudson, 43, who appeared on season three of Idol, informed Abdul.
Abdul, 63, responded, “Welcome to my world for a decade.”
“I’d have spikes on my heels so I can kick him beneath the desk,” she added.
Hudson then identified that Cowell, 65, is “so mellow” now — and Abdul mentioned it is as a result of “he is a dad.”
“Yeah, he is completely different,” the “Rush Rush” singer mentioned. “Not that completely different although… He is snarky as at all times.”
“He nonetheless makes jokes each time I see him,” she mentioned, earlier than imitating Cowell, whom she mentioned calls to her like she calls to her “Chihuahuas.”
American Idol premiered in June 2002 and Abdul sat within the judges desk alongside Cowell and Randy Jackson. Abdul stayed on the present for eight seasons and left in 2009. Cowell left in 2010.
Elsewhere within the interview, Abdul informed Hudson the rationale why she believed she did not have to win the singing competitors present.
“I bear in mind interviewing you after [for Entertainment Tonight], and I mentioned to you, I do know, I’ve the sensation that some wonderful issues are going to occur to you,” Abdul informed Hudson. “People who have to win, win, and the those that need not win find yourself profitable massive time, and you probably did.”
In 2019, the unique Idol judges appeared on an episode of The Kelly Clarkson Present and reminisced on their time collectively.
“It does make me suppose,” Cowell mentioned. “If I had one want it’d be to make one other present with us once more. That may be my No. 1 want.”
He later added, “Our legacy, genuinely, are the artists who we found over the seven-year interval. That’s what I’m most happy with. The present’s rankings have been nice, that’s one factor, however it’s who has come by way of the method and has made all of it worthwhile. And that’s why genuinely, if I might selected who to work with over again, I’d work with these guys once more.”
A day later, Abdul informed ipromiseyoumedia that their reunion was “magical” and like “we had by no means left.”
“The chemistry is plain, that is what’s made it at all times particular. You possibly can’t manufacture that. Proper when the cameras have been rolling, it was about telling the funniest tales, nothing however laughs and smiles,” she mentioned.
