{"id":119252,"date":"2025-02-11T18:06:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T18:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/02\/11\/josh-groban-named-american-idol-mentor-for-new-season\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T18:06:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T18:06:04","slug":"josh-groban-named-american-idol-mentor-for-new-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/02\/11\/josh-groban-named-american-idol-mentor-for-new-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Groban named &#8216;American Idol&#8217; mentor for new season"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-02-11\/M_JoshGroban_021125.jpg\" alt><figcaption> Michael Kovac\/Getty Images for Critics Choice Association<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Josh Groban<\/strong>\u00a0got a trip to Hawai&#8217;i, courtesy of <em>American Idol.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The ABC reality show has tapped Josh to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DF6UEs6y_nr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DF6UEs6y_nr\/\">serve as a mentor<\/a> during the portion of the show when contestants travel to the 50th state to perform at Disney&#8217;s Aulani Resort. Filming on that part of the season is set to wrap Feb. 13.<\/p>\n<p>This will mark Josh&#8217;s third time on <em>Idol.<\/em> He first appeared during the 2007 <em>Idol Gives Back<\/em> special, singing &#8220;You Raise Me Up,&#8221; and then again during season 19, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7NvJF11imGU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7NvJF11imGU\">duetting<\/a> with some of the contestants.<\/p>\n<p>The new season of <em>American Idol<\/em> debuts March 9 on ABC, though a special sneak preview will air following the Oscars on March 2. Season 23 features new judge <strong>Carrie Underwood<\/strong>, plus artist-in-residence<strong> Jelly Roll<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Kovac\/Getty Images for Critics Choice Association Josh Groban\u00a0got a trip to Hawai&#8217;i, courtesy of American Idol. The ABC reality show has tapped Josh to serve as a mentor during the portion of the show when contestants travel to the 50th state to perform at Disney&#8217;s Aulani Resort. Filming on<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/02\/11\/josh-groban-named-american-idol-mentor-for-new-season\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}