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Paula Abdul -- One Pissed Off Judge!

Posted Jul 20th 2009 10:00AM by TMZ Staff

Paula Abdul is pissed off that Ryan Seacrest is a very rich man, our "American Idol" spies say.

Abdul isn't angry at Ryan personally for his new $45 million, 3-year deal, but she's bent out of shape at producers that she's making minimum "Idol" wage -- we're told between $2 and $3 mil a year.

Our spies say producers want Paula back for sure, but she's now doing the Hollywood thing of pretending like she'll walk.

Here's the fun part. Auditions for the next season start on August 6. We're told there are already plans to start the auditions without her if they don't have a deal.

As for what Paula wants -- we're told somewhere between 2 and 3 times what she's making now. Here's our guess -- $4.5 a year ... a lot better than the $5,000 a week she pulled in for season one.

Tags: american idol, AmericanIdol, contract, idol, money, paula abdul, PaulaAbdul, ryan seacrest, RyanSeacrest, salary

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1. Blah blah blah with the whole greed in hollywood.

Posted at 10:05AM on Jul 20th 2009 by atabaw

2. She should get paid more

Posted at 10:05AM on Jul 20th 2009 by Ivonne

3. Such a no talent whining loser! Go see Bruno, see her vacuous performance, sitting on a Mexican bench! Stupid cow!

Posted at 10:06AM on Jul 20th 2009 by Nellie

4. WHO GIVES A RATS ASS!!!!!

Posted at 10:06AM on Jul 20th 2009 by MindTerrorist

5. SCREW THAT LOOPY BITCH!!!!!

In the early 1990'S that crazy COW made multi-millions off of L.A. GEAR, and they never even got to sell the DAMN tennis shoes she got paid for....the deal was worth SO MUCH $$$ they wouldn't even say how much...rumors were it was at least 100 million...so she's one to TALK....
Sit down and take another "downer" BITCH!~!~!

Posted at 10:08AM on Jul 20th 2009 by Kevin

6. Dump her ,all she does is show off her jewelry line and her boobs,the boobs would be ok if we could see all of them,as for ugly jewelry line, it sucks

Posted at 10:10AM on Jul 20th 2009 by Cheryl Cole TO BE A JUDGE

7. If Paula Abdul can't take the heat, she should stay out of the kitchen. Say thanks for the many times they did ask you.

Posted at 10:09AM on Jul 20th 2009 by Robert van den Heuvel

8. NO Paula - NO Idol. Ship that sorry POS of Kara to hell and give Paula her money.

Posted at 10:11AM on Jul 20th 2009 by The REAL DEAL

9. OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HW CRAZY IS THAT!!!!!!

Posted at 10:10AM on Jul 20th 2009 by deseria

10. I am sorry; but even though I like Ryan Seacrest, I think Paula Abdul brings so much more to the show.
A lot of people watch American Idol because of her.
I hope she gets the credit she deserves.

Paula, if you are reading, you could start your own show; maybe with children; remember the Jackson 5?

Posted at 10:46AM on Jul 20th 2009 by Dawn Dyer

11. I feel soooooo sorry for her as I exist on unemployment........not!

Posted at 10:13AM on Jul 20th 2009 by Stacey

12. They should be rolling out the red carpet with money in hand for Paula Adbul. She is the antitheses to Simon. AI has proven with their pocketbook, they can't afford to lose Seacest or Cowell. Kara, sadly, was a mistake. Go back to the three judge - with occasional guest judge, format. It worked. Meanwhile - they need to adjust Randy's deal with a clause that if he can't utter anything other than "it was just a'ight dawg", "your the bomb", and "didn't work for me dude" - his contract will be up and he will be replaced with a much more cost-effective robot or impersonator. AI also needs to be careful - they could be slapped with a justifiable lawsuit based on sex-bias.

Posted at 10:22AM on Jul 20th 2009 by ArtyChick

13. SHE MAKES THE SHOW.............. PAULA DESERVES A LOT MORE THAN SHE IS GETTING............


MONEY TALKS, B/S WALKS..............

Posted at 10:20AM on Jul 20th 2009 by SHOW ME THE MONEY..............

14. Wait, Auditions don't start August 6....... they're already over......

Posted at 10:23AM on Jul 20th 2009 by Robin

15. Get a grip.....when people are losing jobs and others sleeping on the streets, how ridiculous is this tantrum? The only thing worse than someone crying over a $2-3 million payday are media execs that will pay $45 million for a show host. Boy are our priorities screwed up in this country!

Posted at 10:26AM on Jul 20th 2009 by Carey

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