http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b137736_paula_abdul_ive_decided_not_return_idol.html
Abdul’s rep didn’t immediately return a request for comment, but her manager, David Sonenberg, was rather blunt recently when asked about Abdul’s prospects in the wake of the $45 million deal inked by Ryan Seacrest and the even more mind-boggling sum reportedly being negotiated by Simon Cowell.
Sonenberg told the Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago that producers hadn’t even approached Abdul with a number, a lack of action he called “kind of unconscionable and certainly rude and disrespectful.”
Reps for show producers Fremantle, 19 Entertainment and Fox had remained quiet amid the rumblings that Abdul was getting ready to walk (or being given her walking papers).
An Idol source tells E! News that the invested parties made Abdul what they considered to be a “fair offer,” but that she turned them down. And “Kara made her expendable,” the source said.
Seacrest twittered his reaction upon hearing the news tonight.
“About to go to sleep when I started seeing my blackberry blow up. I have read what u have read and I am shocked and saddened about paula,” he wrote.
Good riddance Paula. For the last couple of years in particular I have concentrated only on Simon’s and sometimes Randy’s comments. I consider Paula’s comments to be totally worthless.