Katy Perry mentioned goodbye to American Idol after seven seasons on Sunday night time’s stay 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 night time. 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 can be leaving the ABC singing competitors.
Showing on an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!, Perry was requested by host Jimmy Kimmel instantly how lengthy she was more likely to proceed with Idol.
“Properly, , this fall, this September, I’m going to be doing this enormous music competition in Brazil known as Rock in Rio. It’s actually thrilling. It’s an enormous 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 number of gasps from the viewers, Perry continued: “I like Idol a lot. It’s linked me with the center of America. However I must 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 eager 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 cellphone blew up.” Buyt he added that her resolution “is sensible.”
Perry had been a decide on American Idol alongside Richie and Bryan because the present was revived by ABC in 2018.