{"id":73669,"date":"2024-02-05T20:04:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T20:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/05\/tori-kelly-joins-american-idol-season-22-as-guest-mentor\/"},"modified":"2024-02-05T20:04:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T20:04:57","slug":"tori-kelly-joins-american-idol-season-22-as-guest-mentor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/05\/tori-kelly-joins-american-idol-season-22-as-guest-mentor\/","title":{"rendered":"Tori Kelly Joins &#8216;American Idol&#8217; Season 22 as Guest Mentor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/tori-kelly\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tori Kelly<\/a><span> is returning to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/tv\/american-idol\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>American Idol<\/em><\/a><span>!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><em><span>Idol<\/span><\/em><span> alum will be joining the singing competition&#8217;s upcoming 22nd season as a guest mentor and performer to hopeful contestants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kelly made it to Hollywood Week in season 9, when she was just 18 years old. Following her elimination, she self-released her debut EP, <\/span><em><span>Handmade Songs<\/span><\/em><span>, in 2012, kicking off her rise to stardom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The &#8220;Young Gun&#8221; singer&#8217;s episode will tape at Aulani: A Disney Resort &amp; Spa in Ko Olina, Hawai&#8217;i, showcasing\u00a0<\/span><em><span>Idol<\/span><\/em><span>\u00a0hopefuls as they perform\u00a0on the beach\u00a0in front of judges <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/luke-bryan\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Bryan<\/a><span>, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/katy-perry\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katy Perry<\/a><span>, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/lionel-richie\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lionel Richie<\/a><span> and host <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/ryan-seacrest\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Seacrest<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/katy-perry-reflects-on-turning-39-and-new-season-of-american-idol-exclusive-213641\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ET spoke with the\u00a0<em>Idol<\/em>\u00a0judges<\/a><span> last fall as they auditioned singers for the upcoming season &#8212; which marks their seventh together as a group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;You can&#8217;t separate us,&#8221; Perry insisted. &#8220;You can&#8217;t break this fam down!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Don&#8217;t even try it!&#8221; Richie agreed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The group shared that they learn more about each other every season, with this season in particular being revelatory as they traveled to each of their hometowns &#8212; Santa\u00a0Barbara,\u00a0California; Tuskegee, Alabama; and\u00a0Leesburg, Georgia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Oh, you have no idea,&#8221; Richie promised, while Bryan recalled, &#8220;It was like being on a field trip.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>American Idol <\/span><\/em><span>season 22 premieres Sunday Feb. 18 at 8 p.m. PT\/ET on ABC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>RELATED CONTENT:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/tori-kelly-joins-american-idol-season-22-as-guest-mentor-and-performer-218936\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tori Kelly is returning to American Idol! The Idol alum will be joining the singing competition&#8217;s upcoming 22nd season as a guest mentor and performer to hopeful contestants. Kelly made it to Hollywood Week in season 9, when she was just 18 years old. Following her elimination, she self-released her debut EP, Handmade Songs, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[837,174,21,20,1123,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-73669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-american-idol","9":"tag-entertainment-tonight","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-tori-kelly","13":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}