{"id":389757,"date":"2026-04-21T02:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T02:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389757\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T02:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T02:46:08","slug":"jennifer-hudson-on-american-idol-return-as-guest-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389757\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Hudson on American Idol Return as Guest Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt has double meaning for me, at least for my celebrity and artistry and my person,\u201d she told fellow EGOT winner Viola Davis during a chat for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/culture\/jennifer-hudson-tells-viola-davis-how-she-found-her-happy-place\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Interview<\/a> in August. \u201cThroughout my career, people have only gotten to know me through singing songs or playing characters. I felt like the talk show gave me space and a place to be just Jennifer, Jenny Kate from the South Side of Chicago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Plus, as Jennifer put it, \u201cI love people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople love to confide in me,\u201d Jennifer continued. \u201cI\u2019m a listener, and I\u2019m also inspired by hearing other people\u2019s stories and perspectives. There\u2019s a lot of things I don\u2019t know about, but I get to learn it through my guests, so I\u2019m inspired by all of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Jennifer isn\u2019t the only American Idol alum to make the most out of her career. Read on to see what other contestants are up to these days.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt has double meaning for me, at least for my celebrity and artistry and my person,\u201d she told&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-389757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}