Katy Perry mentioned goodbye to American Idol after seven seasons on Sunday evening’s reside finale.
As a tribute to the singer, the women of the highest 12 carried out a medley of Perry’s hits, together with “Teenage Dream,” “Darkish Horse” and “California Gurls.”
Perry, who was consuming a slice of pizza when the efficiency started, jumped onto the judges’ desk on the finish of the efficiency and gave a strong-arms salute.
Perry additionally carried out “What Makes a Girl” alongside competitor Jack Blocker throughout the three-hour finale.
In the meantime, Abi Carter was named the winner of Season 22 on Sunday evening. She carried out “What Was I Made For?” from the Barbie film, throughout which Perry might be seen getting emotional.
Perry introduced in February that she could be leaving the ABC singing competitors.
Showing on an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Reside!, Perry was requested by host Jimmy Kimmel how lengthy she was prone to proceed with Idol.
“Nicely, you recognize, this fall, this September, I’m going to be doing this enormous music pageant in Brazil known as Rock in Rio. It’s actually thrilling. It’s a giant deal for folks all around the world, particularly my Brazilian followers,” Perry mentioned, including, “So I believe this may in all probability be my final season for Idol.”
Following a couple of gasps from the viewers, Perry continued: “I really like Idol a lot. It’s linked me with the guts of America. However I have to really feel that pulse of my very own beat.”
She hadn’t shared the information with fellow judges Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie on the time of her announcement, however Bryan later mentioned he had heard “whispers that she was fascinated about it. It wasn’t like an enormous shock.”
For his half, Richie mentioned when he heard the information, “it simply made me run off the highway…. My telephone blew up.” Buythe added that her determination “is sensible.”
Perry had been a choose on American Idol alongside Richie and Bryan because the present was revived by ABC in 2018.