Katy Perry quits ‘American Idol’ after 7 seasons: ‘I need to feel that pulse of my own beat’

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor All five of this year’s Academy Award-nominated original songs will be performed on the Dolby Theatre stage at the 96th Oscars. Jon Batiste, Becky G, Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, Scott George and the Osage Singers, and as Variety previously reported, Ryan Gosling and Mark Ronson will perform the memorable numbers.

It’s a pretty stacked field for the Best Song Academy Award this year, and the Oscarcast producers today set the performers who’ll be bringing the nominated tunes to the stage.

country music legend Loretta Lynn, auditioned for “American Idol” on Sunday’s episode of the ABC music competition show, surprising the judges. Judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan seemed to be in the dark about her impressive family tree — at first. “Growing up, I sang music my entire life,” Russell said.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Zendaya, Michelle Pfeiffer and Oscar winners Nicolas Cage and Al Pacino are among the first group of presenters for this year’s 96th Oscars ceremony. Also presenting are last year’s four acting winners — Brendan Fraser from “The Whale” and Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Jamie Lee Curtis from the best picture winner “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Oscar winners Mahershala Ali (“Moonlight” and “Green Book”), Jessica Lange (“Tootsie” and “Blue Sky”), Matthew McConaughey (“Dallas Buyers Club”), Lupita Nyong’o (“12 Years a Slave”) and Sam Rockwell (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”) also are set to take the stage. Raj Kapoor serves as the Oscars’ executive producer and showrunner, alongside executive producers Molly McNearney and Katy Mullan.

Katy Perry, Ariana Grande and now-girlfriend Taylor Swift.The footage was taken from an interview with Kansas City Chiefs tight end back in 2016, when he sat down to speak with a TV station called Afterbuzz.Shared by TMZ, the clip sees the American football star take part in a ‘Kiss, Marry, Kill’ game, choosing between Katy Perry, Ariana Grande and his-now-girlfriend Taylor Swift. As the title suggests, the player has to choose which of the names he would kiss, marry and kill.“That’s messed up, I don’t want to kill any of them,” he tells the host, before reluctantly choosing to kill off Grande, kiss Swift and marry Perry.“Ariana I’d kill, unfortunately.

Emmy Russell faced the American Idol judges on Sunday night’s (February 25) episode!

What! Travis Kelce already went back to the US?!

Katy Perry and Taylor Swift wish each other the best. The two pop icons reunited at Swift’s concert in Sydney, Australia, with Perry sharing some highlights on her social media. How Taylor Swift and Ice Spice became Hollywood’s new best friendsTravis Kelce arrives in Australia via private jet to support Taylor SwiftA post shared by KATY PERRY (@katyperry)The post is made up of various images and photos.

Katy Perry surely is aware that everyone thinks Taylor Swift‘s song “Bad Blood” is about her and she had a hilarious reaction to watching the song be performed at the Eras Tour.

All eyes had been on Travis Kelce as he ventured Down Under to watch Taylor Swift perform her Eras Tour shows in Sydney, Australia. But now he’s been relegated to the sidelines! Because we’ve got MAJOR Katy Perry updates for ya!!

was seen in the crowd during Taylor Swift’s Eras performance in Sydney, Australia, dancing to Swift’s song, “Bad Blood.” This was especially noteworthy because the general consensus is that “Bad Blood” is a dis track that Swift, 34, wrote about Perry, 39. “Bad Blood” was released in 2014, at the height of the pop stars’ alleged feud.

Taylor Swift is taking over Sydney!

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Everyone could use a good cry now and again. And what better way to get those tears flowing than watching a movie? Variety caught up with this year’s Oscar nominees at the Academy’s annual nominees luncheon at the Beverly Hilton to find out the last time they cried at the movies. “I cried at ‘Parallel Mothers,’” said “Oppenheimer” star Emily Blunt.

American Idol returned Sunday night, and it’s a big one — Katy Perry‘s last first episode ever after announcing she was leaving the show. And she’s making the most of it!

Katy Perry announced she’s leaving her role on the judging panel later this year. “Oh hiiii @AmericanIdol,” Sparks, 34, tweeted on Friday. “I hear a seat opened up at the judges table! I’m putting my name in the hat!” Sparks’ public plea comes days after Perry, 39, told Jimmy Kimmel last week that the current Season 22 will be her last after seven years on the show.

Now that Katy Perry has announced plans to leave American Idol behind, who do you want to see fill her seat at the judges table?

unconditionally moved by this meeting. Katy Perry got emotional during Sunday’s “American Idol” premiere as a contestant met her biological family for the first time following her live audition. Arizona native McKenna Breinholt stepped into the audition room and revealed to Perry and her fellow “Idol” judges, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie, that she was adopted.According to Breinholt, 25, her adoptive family struggled to conceive a child before ultimately going through the adoptive process.“I have the best family in the world they’ve always supported me,” Breinholt said, adding that when she had turned 21, her parents revealed that she had inherited her musical talent from her biological mother, Amy Ross Lopez, who was in a band called Nowhere Man and a Whiskey Girl before she sadly passed away.

A past American Idol winner is throwing their hat in the ring to join the show’s judges panel!

Lionel Richie was surprised when news reached him about Katy Perry‘s imminent departure from American Idol. But “I’m not mad,” he said while visiting Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday.

It’s hard to believe American Idol first premiered more than two decades ago!