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. “I love ‘Idol’ so much.
It’s connected me with the heart of America. But I need to feel that pulse of my own beat,” the “Firework” singer explained, alluding to releasing new music and maybe even a tour.
Perry, Luke Bryan, 47, and Lionel Richie, 74, have occupied the iconic “Idol” judges’ chairs upon the show’s 2018 revival on ABC.
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