{"id":2382060,"date":"2026-04-20T22:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2382060"},"modified":"2026-04-20T22:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:52:17","slug":"jennifer-hudson-on-american-idol-return-as-guest-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jennifer-hudson-on-american-idol-return-as-guest-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Hudson on American Idol Return as Guest Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cIt has double meaning for me, at least for my celebrity and artistry and my person,\u201d she told fellow EGOT winner <\/span><strong>Viola Davis<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> during a chat for <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/culture\/jennifer-hudson-tells-viola-davis-how-she-found-her-happy-place\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Interview<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> 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<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Plus, as Jennifer put it, \u201cI love people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\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<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Of course, Jennifer isn\u2019t the only <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">American Idol<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> alum to make the most out of her career. Read on to see what other contestants are up to these days.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"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 Interview 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2382061,"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":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2382060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Jennifer-Hudson-on-American-Idol-Return-as-Guest-Judge.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382060","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=2382060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2382062,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382060\/revisions\/2382062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2382061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2382060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2382060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2382060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}