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Paula Abdul -- Out for Real

Posted Aug 5th 2009 9:28AM by TMZ Staff

Paula Abdul -- Out for RealWe thought it was a negotiating ploy, but our "American Idol" sources say Paula Abdul is really gone and will not return.

FOX issued a statement saying, "While Paula will not be continuing with us, she's a tremendous talent and we wish her the best." It definitely sounds real.

We know Paula was ticked at the salary disparity between her and others -- while Ryan Seacrest just made a $45 million/3 year deal and Simon Cowell can buy a small country with his "Idol" money, Paula was getting somewhere between $2 and $3 mil a year.

Here's the weird part: FOX could definitely afford to up the ante and seal the deal, which indicates they weren't that into her.

And they just signed Kara DioGuardi -- which we just don't get at all.


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1. last

Posted at 9:32AM on Aug 5th 2009 by last

2. Sucks. There goes the neighborhood.

Posted at 9:32AM on Aug 5th 2009 by namers

3. I Will NOT watch American Idol EVER again. Kari gets on my nerves! Ans American Idol Is not the same Without Paula. FOX IS SKANK!

Posted at 9:32AM on Aug 5th 2009 by Toby

4. maybe i'll watch the show again.

Posted at 9:34AM on Aug 5th 2009 by angellovef

5. Honest, who cares??????? SHES NUTS!!!! she did make that stupid show more interesting though...but serious guys...this has been in the works for so long already!!

Shes leaving! big woop!

Posted at 9:34AM on Aug 5th 2009 by Jordanna

6. Sucks. There goes the neighborhood.

Posted at 9:34AM on Aug 5th 2009 by namers

7. i think idol execs made a big mistake..... simon and paula had chemistry, kara and simon.. not so much

Posted at 12:51AM on Aug 6th 2009 by brayden's grammie

8. FOX is Stupid! Ill NEVER watch AMerican Idol Again! Seriously!

Posted at 9:36AM on Aug 5th 2009 by Toby 3

9. Sucks. There goes the neighborhood.

Posted at 9:37AM on Aug 5th 2009 by namers

10. I don't follow American Idle, but what is it that she actually brings to the show where people would stop watching? I was under the impression that the only judge that mattered was Simon and everything else was about the contestants...

Posted at 9:37AM on Aug 5th 2009 by Sono

11. i wont be watching it.i stopped liking it last year because of kara.i will miss Paula.she balanced Randy and Simon out.

Posted at 9:49AM on Aug 5th 2009 by penny

12. WHO GIVES A RATS ASS!!!!!

Posted at 9:39AM on Aug 5th 2009 by Mind Terrorist

13. They don't want a crazed drug addicted lunatic on the show who's been going downhill for a long time.

Too bad they don't feel the same way about no talent disc jockeys who dump their agents while their agents are lying on their deathbed in the hospital or smarmy British jerks who got into the music business in the first place by producing crappy novelty records by wrestlers and couldn't write a hit song if his life depended on it.

Posted at 9:38AM on Aug 5th 2009 by Peterson32

14. Seriously Fox? Get rid of Paula but keep Kara??? BAD move. I for one am done with AI. Its not the same anymore anyway. Although I do love Simon, it just won't be AI without Paula.

Posted at 9:39AM on Aug 5th 2009 by becky

15. Let's see...2 Million or nothing.

I'm a zany girl...I'll take NOTHING!!!

Sheesh...and all this is going on while some people in America can't even find a job that pays minimum wage...

Posted at 9:42AM on Aug 5th 2009 by JoePublic

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