Katy Perry Wants Jelly Roll to Replace Her on ‘Idol’: Here’s Why

Katy Perry is on her manner out of American Idol, with season 22 being her final earlier than one other musical sensation steps in to take over her function as a decide alongside Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan.

And in an interview with E! Information posted Tuesday (April 16), the pop star revealed who she would select to take the reins following her exit: a sure breakout nation celebrity with face tattoos and a coronary heart of gold. “I gotta say Jelly Roll was loopy when he got here on the present,” she informed the publication. “I used to be satisfied at something he mentioned.”

“He may run for president, he may very well be my pastor, I would return to church for him,” she added. “He may promote me something … To have any of those guys plus Jelly on the present can be superb. I really like you, Jelly!”

The interview comes a few week after the “Son of a Sinner” singer appeared on the April 8 episode of Idol, serving as a visitor mentor and training the present’s high 24 contestants in Hawaii. “I noticed how life-changing that is for these youngsters,” he informed Billboard on the time. “Even when they go on and don’t have music careers, they’ve this story without end and I felt it on them. I took away the spirit of real happiness to be the place you might be, as a result of it occurs so quick that generally you don’t notice how particular a second it’s.”

Even when it isn’t Jelly, Perry mentioned she hopes that her successor shares her knack for being simple with the singing present’s rivals. “I desire a reality teller,” she informed the publication. “I would like somebody that isn’t afraid to inform the reality in a swish manner.”

“Sadly, if you’re a lady and you’ve got an opinion otherwise you’re a boss, generally you’re additionally thought of a B-I-T-C-[H],” she added. “So simply somebody that has a robust sense of self, that listens to their instinct.”

The “Firework” singer has been part of Idol since 2018, when the present was rebooted after three years off the air. She now has her sights set on recording a followup to her 2020 LP Smile, telling Jimmy Kimmel in February that she desires to “go see the world and possibly carry new music.”

“I simply have but to make a document from a spot of feeling actually joyful and complete and full of affection,” Perry, who shares 3-year-old daughter Daisy Dove with fiancé Orlando Bloom, mentioned in an April interview with Entry Hollywood. “Typically artists are like, ‘Oh, that’s boring, you need to make music from type of like a harder place,’ however truly it’s very brilliant and joyful, like pure pleasure and enjoyable and playful and celebratory and a celebration.”