{"id":187133,"date":"2016-11-14T13:08:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T11:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=187133"},"modified":"2016-11-14T13:12:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T11:12:13","slug":"gareth-cliff-quits-idols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/187133-gareth-cliff-quits-idols.html","title":{"rendered":"Gareth Cliff quits Idols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gareth Cliff is leaving Idols SA, according to a post on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GarethCliffOfficial\/photos\/a.101247766874.98868.101197616874\/10153876897711875\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Facebook page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s time! After eleven seasons of Idols, it\u2019s time for me to say goodbye. What better way to bring this chapter to a close than a trip to New York and meeting American Idols judge Harry Connick Jr,&#8221; said Cliff.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to quit comes after Cliff successfully took M-Net to court after he was fired from the show for controversial comments he made on social media about Penny Sparrow.<\/p>\n<p>Cliff is currently involved in the Cliff Central and Touch Central projects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Cliff-Idols.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-187135\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Cliff-Idols.jpg\" alt=\"cliff-idols\" width=\"494\" height=\"408\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/153736-how-much-gareth-cliff-will-get-paid-for-idols-2016.html\">How much Gareth Cliff will get paid for Idols 2016<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gareth Cliff is leaving Idols SA, according to a post on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":120970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,1773,35051],"class_list":["post-187133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-active","tag-gareth-cliff","tag-idols"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187137,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187133\/revisions\/187137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}