Jennifer Lopez told Nikki Glaser that her team advised her not to become a judge on “American Idol,” but she did so anyway.
Jennifer Lopez admitted she took a career risk when she became a judge on “American Idol.”
The “Dance Again” singer, 55, looked back on the time she spent working on the Fox singing competition series in a conversation with comedian Nikki Glaser for Interview Magazine.
“I’ll do things that could be risky because I believe that they’re going to turn out OK. I’d done all these big movies and made these albums and now they’re asking me to do reality TV,” said Lopez, who sat at the judges’ table on the show from 2011 to 2016.
“I’ve had kids and I haven’t worked for a couple of years,” she continued. “‘American Idol’ was a big show at the time. It really comes down to, ‘What do I think I can bring to something?’ When all of my advisers were like, ‘Don’t do this, you’re going to be reduced to just a reality star.’”
Lopez explained that, at the time, doing “American Idol” or any other reality show “was looked down upon.”
“‘Don’t do that or nobody will ever hire you for a movie ever again’,” she recalled her team telling her at that point in her career, adding, “And I was just like, ‘No.
