{"id":1979513,"date":"2025-08-25T23:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T23:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1979513"},"modified":"2025-08-25T23:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T23:27:13","slug":"american-idol-reveals-returning-judges-for-season-24-is-carrie-underwood-coming-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/american-idol-reveals-returning-judges-for-season-24-is-carrie-underwood-coming-back\/","title":{"rendered":"American Idol Reveals Returning Judges for Season 24 \u2014 Is Carrie Underwood Coming Back?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We now know which three music superstars will be seated on the judges\u2019 panel when American Idol<\/a> returns for Season 24 in early 2026.<\/p>\n

Luke Bryan<\/a>, Lionel Richie<\/a> and Carrie Underwood<\/a> are all confirmed to be returning for the new season, TVLine has learned; though he wasn\u2019t included in ABC\u2019s announcement, Ryan Seacrest<\/a> is expected to return as host, barring any future changes.<\/p>\n

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We now know which three music superstars will be seated on the judges\u2019 panel when American Idol returns for Season 24 in early 2026. Luke Bryan, Lionel Richie and Carrie Underwood are all confirmed to be returning for the new season, TVLine has learned; though he wasn\u2019t included in ABC\u2019s announcement, Ryan Seacrest is expected […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1979514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-1979513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/American-Idol-Reveals-Returning-Judges-for-Season-24-\u2014-Is.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}