{"id":27974,"date":"2022-02-16T05:40:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T10:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=27974"},"modified":"2022-02-16T05:40:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T10:40:29","slug":"jimmie-allen-joining-american-idol-as-mentor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/02\/jimmie-allen-joining-american-idol-as-mentor\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmie Allen Joining American Idol As Mentor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmie Allen will be joining the upcoming season of ABC&#8217;s American Idol as a mentor.<\/p>\n<p>He broke the news on social media on Tuesday, February 15th.\u00a0 via a video from Disney&#8217;s Aulani Resort &amp; Spa in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>The clip features Minnie Mouse waving in the background. Jimmie will share mentor duties with pop singer Bebe Rexha.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CZ-0_40lrJL\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>Season 20 of American Idol is set to premiere on Sunday, February 27th at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Show judges Luke Bryan, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie are all set to return, as well as longtime show host Ryan Seacrest.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Jimmie celebrates his career third Number One hit this week with &#8220;Freedom Was A Highway,&#8221; featuring Brad Paisley. The song holds the top spot on both the Billboard and Mediabase charts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pgvNtz_XXE4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmie Allen will be joining the upcoming season of ABC&#8217;s American Idol as a mentor.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":24834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[220,39,3105,380,29],"class_list":["post-27974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-american-idol","tag-brad-paisley","tag-freedom-was-a-highway","tag-jimmie-allen","tag-luke-bryan"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 08:23:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/02\/jimmie-allen-joining-american-idol-as-mentor\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27975,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27974\/revisions\/27975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}