All posts containing the tag: "Nigel Lythgoe"
Advice for Contestant #22036 on "So You Think You Can Dance" -- You're supposed to do the cha cha, not show it.
FOX censors apparently didn't have their eye on the ball, so to speak. The ground roll aired, in all its glory.
Judge and Executive Producer Nigel Lythgoe tells TMZ: "None of us knew she did this. The show was always designed to expose talent, but not in this way."
Filed under: TV, Exclusives
Our sources at "American Idol" say the show made Paula Abdul two offers ... and then she just went and quit by tweet.
As we already reported, we're told Paula was pulling in somewhere between $2 and $3 million a year and she wanted more. Our sources say "A.I." made her an offer that she didn't like at all. Paula countered but producers didn't want to pay that much, so they countered with another offer.
Rather than responding to the second offer, Paula shocked everyone by tweeting her goodbye. The weirdest thing ... "A.I." took the tweet seriously and responded with an official sayonara.
We're told Paula made it especially difficult during the negotiations because she changed management twice.
One person at "Idol" called her reaction "an emotional tweet." You don't learn that in law school.
As for what she'll do, we're told producer Nigel Lythgoe has given her a standing offer to be a guest judge on "So You Think You Can Dance." Here's what we're thinking -- he'd kill to make her a regular.
Paula's kinda crazy ... but crazy sells.
Filed under: TV, American Idol, Exclusives
That guy in the blue doggy suit is a young Simon Cowell -- and this is the video his buddy Nigel Lythgoe didn't think we'd ever find. Check and mate. 
Nigel challenged TMZ to uncover the "horrible" video of the "Idol" judge singing -- and did we ever. Here's Cowell waaaay back in '82 on the popular U.K. television show "Top of the Pops" performing as his barking alter-ego "Wonderdog."
Britain's got talent, indeed.
Filed under: TV, American Idol
Ryan Seacrest couldn't get mega-producer Nigel Lythgoe into Crown Bar last month -- so how do you think the guy did last night, when he dropped Ben Stiller's name at the door?
Filed under: American Idol
Someone at Crown Bar is gonna get fired -- because last night they dissed one of the most powerful men in H-Wood.
Nigel Lythgoe, the guy who produces "American Idol" and judges on "So You Think You Can Dance," was out enjoying his birthday, planning on a festive night at Crown. His boy Ryan Seacrest even arranged a table for him. Unfortunately the Josh-Hartnett-look-alike doorman apparently didn't get the memo, and Nigel was denied. The nerve!
And in the insult-to-injury department, Alli Sims made it through.
Filed under: American Idol, Denied!
Priscilla Presley has a thing for American idols!
TMZ sources recently spotted the 62-year-old Elvis ex at L.A.'s Brentwood Restaurant and Lounge -- swapping spit with 58-year-old "American Idol" executive producer and "So You Think You Can Dance" judge Nigel Lythgoe. Hound dog!
We're told Priscilla appeared to be enjoying herself -- despite the lack of any facial expression!
Filed under: Hook-Ups
Simon Cowell does not get his best lines from Executive Producer Nigel Lythgoe.
Star magazine reported in its current issue that Lythgoe "watches the rehearsals and writes notes on who Simon should make snarky remarks about."
TMZ spoke with Nigel today, who says it's a bunch of baloney. "I don't make notes," Lythgoe says, adding, "Simon keeps to himself in his trailer before the show with a feed, so he can listen to the music."
Lythgoe also told TMZ that none of the banter between Ryan and Simon is scripted -- "If I would have written any of that it would have been a lot funnier, to be frank." Lythgoe also said: "I wouldn't have kept this gay angst going for so long. They would have both come out by now in my story."
Filed under: American Idol
If Rosie O'Donnell was looking for a new Donald Trump, she's found him.
Adding more fuel to TV's newest burning rivalry, "American Idol" executive producer, Nigel Lythgoe, phoned into "On Air with Ryan Seacrest" this morning, and dragged Randy Jackson's plus-size stature into the raging dawgfight.
During the call, Lythgoe called Rosie "utterly crazy" for accusing "Idol" of being racist and "weightest," saying "look at our past contestants, Ruben for instance, Randy Jackson himself ... these are not small people!" That's gotta make Randy feel good.
Lythgoe added, "Once you get into a situation where you can have a view and then put it on television ... that comes with responsibility and that responsibility is you think before you open your mouth."
Your move, Ro.
Filed under: American Idol, Rosie O'Donnell
Rosie O'Donnell has just a couple words for "American Idol's" Nigel Lythgoe: Whatever, dude.
That, in effect, was Rosie's response to Lythgoe's stinging criticism, just a couple of hours after the "Idol" honcho called her remarks about his show "absurd," "ridiculous," "self-promotional" and "without thought or knowledge." On her blog at rosie.com, "The View's" resident firestarter had this to say [warning: spellings unchanged] --
what can u say really
from the coca-cola red couch
i call it as i see it
nigel l - sam r
same same same
1985 - 2007
blah blah blah blha
blha blha blah blha
Rosie appears to equate Nigel Lythgoe with Sam Riddle ("sam r"), the producer of "Star Search," where O'Donnell got her start by winning several weeks in a row.
Filed under: American Idol, The View, Rosie O'Donnell
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