FoxNews: Jennifer Lopez was warned she’d be ‘reduced to just a reality star’ if she did ‘American Idol’

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Jennifer Lopez was warned she'd be 'reduced to just a reality star' if she did 'American Idol'

Jennifer Lopez revealed she was warned off of doing "American Idol" by her advisers, but she decided to do it anyway and saw a career resurgence....                        ...                        ...                            ...You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login doesn't consider herself a risk-taker, but someone who is confident in her decisions.......In her interview with Nikki Glaser in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login Lopez revealed that she was warned by her team that being a judge on "American Idol" would kill her movie career......."I'd done all these big movies and made these albums and now they're asking me to do reality TV," Lopez said. "I've had kids and I haven't worked for a couple of years. 'American Idol' was a big show at the time." ......She said her decision-making process "really comes down to, what do I think I can bring to something?" ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......But "all of my advisers were like, 'Don't do this, you're going to be reduced to just a reality star.'"......Lopez You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login a total of five seasons on the show, first in 2011 for the show's 10th season, replacing Simon Cowell.  She returned the next year for season 11, and again in 2014 for the next three seasons......."It was looked down upon," the "Hustlers" star recalled, adding she had been told "Don't do that or nobody will ever hire you for a movie ever again." ......"And I was just like, 'No. I don't think that's what's going to happen. I think I have something to contribute.' I love music and I love mentoring people, and I wanted to share the things that I knew about the business. So it became more about, 'What do I think I can do with this?'"......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......After her first two seasons, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login appearance on the show "the most impressive reality-TV-based rejuvenation of a music career ever." ......"When I'm choosing things, even if they seem like not the best idea to everybody else, if I feel it in my gut that it's the right thing to do, nobody can talk me out of it," Lopez told Interview.......The "Love Don't Cost a Thing" singer also launched a Las Vegas show after her appearances on "Idol," another decision she was warned about. ......"It's the same thing when I went to Vegas. They were like, 'That's where entertainers go to die.' And I was like, 'No.' And it launched me into a whole new part of my life."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......She continued, "I know what I could do. I know the type of show that I'mYou are not allowed to view links. Register or Login and I know that we're going to invite all these people and everybody's going to come, people who would have never bought a ticket to one of my tours. And all of that, little by little, starts building a new momentum. If they offer you the biggest thing in the world and you're like, 'I don't think I have anything to offer to this,' then you have to go, 'This is not for me. I can't do it.'"......Lopez said she has turned down offers that didn't feel right, even when she was pressured to do them......."There's been movies like that. Sometimes they'll offer you tons of money to do a commercial or a private show, and you're just like, 'No.' They're like, 'Please do it! We all want the commission!' And I'm like, 'I can't do that.'"...

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