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

Katy Perry is on her approach out of American Idol, with season 22 being her final earlier than one other musical sensation steps in to take over her position as a choose 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 instructed the publication. “I used to be satisfied at something he mentioned.”

“He might run for president, he could possibly be my pastor, I’d return to church for him,” she added. “He might promote me something … To have any of those guys plus Jelly on the present can be superb. I 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 prime 24 contestants in Hawaii. “I spotted how life-changing that is for these children,” he instructed Billboard on the time. “Even when they go on and don’t have music careers, they’ve this story eternally 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 easy with the singing present’s opponents. “I need a fact teller,” she instructed the publication. “I need somebody that’s not afraid to inform the reality in a swish approach.”

“Sadly, whenever you’re a girl 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 perhaps convey new music.”

“I simply have but to make a file from a spot of feeling actually completely happy 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 wish to make music from type of like a more durable place,’ however truly it’s very shiny and joyful, like pure pleasure and enjoyable and playful and celebratory and a celebration.”