{"id":445444,"date":"2026-05-26T04:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/445444\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T04:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:58:12","slug":"amas-2026-paul-abdul-reacts-to-meghan-markle-song-shoutout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/445444\/","title":{"rendered":"AMAs 2026: Paul Abdul Reacts to Meghan Markle Song Shoutout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/paula_abdul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Paula Abdul<\/a> is forever a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/meghan_markle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Meghan Markle<\/a> fan.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the &#8220;Forever Your Girl&#8221; singer was royally flushed when the Duchess of Sussex recently used her iconic song while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1432166\/meghan-markle-shares-new-prince-harry-wedding-photos-on-8th-anniversary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">celebrating her and Prince Harry&#8217;s eighth wedding anniversary<\/a> on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYgthAInEWE\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> Story.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was in shock and I was so touched,&#8221; Paula told E! News at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/american_music_awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">2026 American Music Awards<\/a> on May 25. &#8220;I never take anything for granted with my career, I never have. And so, I&#8217;m always humbled to have little gems like that appear in my life. It&#8217;s very touching.&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1432290\/american-music-awards-2026-celebrity-red-carpet-fashion-arrivals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">See all the stars on the AMAs red carpet here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>After seeing the shoutout, Paula hit the repost button on her Instagram Story.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just texted her back,&#8221; Paula added, &#8220;saying, &#8216;What beautiful pictures and thank you so much for using my song.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, for Meghan and Harry&#8217;s wedding milestone, the As Ever founder posted a series of never-before-seen pictures from their May 2019 nuptials, writing, &#8220;Eight years ago today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paula Abdul is forever a Meghan Markle fan. In fact, the &#8220;Forever Your Girl&#8221; singer was royally flushed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-445444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445444","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=445444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}