{"id":23451,"date":"2023-12-31T16:29:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T21:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=23451"},"modified":"2023-12-31T16:29:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T21:29:40","slug":"nigel-lythgoe-denies-any-sexual-allegations-against-him-imposed-by-paula-abdul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/nigel-lythgoe-denies-any-sexual-allegations-against-him-imposed-by-paula-abdul\/23451\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Lythgoe denies any sexual allegations against him imposed by Paula Abdul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigel Lythgoe has denied the allegations of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/paula-abdul-sues-american-idol-producer-nigel-lythgoe-over-sexual-assault-claims\/23278\/\">sexual assault<\/a> imposed on him by Paula Abdul.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo say that I am shocked and saddened by the allegations made against me by Paula Abdul is a wild understatement,\u201d said the former American Idol executive producer, in a statement to Us Weekly. He asserted that for more than two decades, he has been in contact with Paula as either friends or colleagues, both of which has been \u201centirely platonic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lythgoe claimed to have learnt about the allegations yesterday, which did not only saddened him but also offended him as it is against everything he stands for.<\/p>\n<p>He concluded, \u201cWhile Paula\u2019s history of erratic behavior is well known, I can\u2019t pretend to understand exactly why she would file a lawsuit that she must know is untrue.\u201d In addition, he has vowed to fight the \u201cappalling smear\u201d with everything that he has.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigel Lythgoe has denied the allegations of sexual assault imposed on him by Paula Abdul. \u201cTo say that I am\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":23456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[7038,6908],"class_list":["post-23451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-nigel-lythgoe","tag-paula-abdul"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}