While his new album ‘Ollusion’ failed to make waves on the charts, Omarion has found himself a new job. In an official press release issued by MTV today, the singer has been highlighted as the new judge on ‘America’s Best Dance Crew’. Omarion will replace Shane Sparks on the judging panel after the latter faces allegations of child molestation. The 5th season of the hit show premieres on Thursday, January 28th at 10pm ET. Here is an excerpt from the release:
“Omarion is one of the most accomplished, multi-talented young stars of his generation. His music and music videos have influenced hip-hop dance going back to his B2k days and in more recent years as a platinum-selling solo artist,” said Liz Gateley, Senior Vice President of Series Development for MTV. He is an accomplished dancer, artist and actor who knows what makes a good dance crew performance. We are very excited for him to join Lil Mama and JC Chasez as our third judge.”
“Omarion is a great friend and I am looking forward to him joining the ABDC family,” said Randy Jackson, executive producer of “America’s Best Dance Crew.” “Season Five is going to be blazing hot.”
“I’m so excited to be a judge on MTV’s ‘America’s Best Dance Crew’,” says Omarion. “Dancing and performing is what I do and being a judge on this show will allow me to give creative feedback to the newest and hottest dancers on the rise.”
I sense that this is a good move for Omarion. Although he is not the ‘King of Dance’, as he has led himself to believe, he can definitely share his experiences in the business with the next generation. Hopefully the learning goes both ways and he picks up some new tricks from the watching them perform. That way he won’t have to resort to doing the ‘robot’ every single time he goes on stage.
Good for him! That’s great. It’s not like he is a failure, he is still making money in a legal positive way, so this is good gor him!
Go Omarion!!!!
oh god another ego stroker …no thanks
thank god i luv this guy… even chris said he was there for him.
CONGRATS BRO
I agree w/ erica & I don’t see him as being robotic @ all. He just has very choreographed moves, he can do other types of dances too thou if you actually do your research. I guess he’s just more of a technical, more polished dancer than most.
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look on the bright sIde O, at least you sold more than Heidi. She only sold 658 her first week! lls. Hopefully this works out for him cuz music aint.
They shouldve gotten Laurie Ann Gibson instead but congrats Omari!
They need to get rid of Lil Mama’s m*****-faced ass! She is useless!
@Rob..i thought that was who they were going to replace, but I GUESS not…
shane’s a child m*******?????????????????????????????
Damn…well Shane Sparks can m***** me any day (yum), but that’s still f***** up. If he’s guilty, he deserves everything he gets.
Anyhow, I’m glad Omarion’s getting this gig, it’s definitely fitting for him and right up his alley. At least he’ll have an income too. God knows Optical Ollusion ain’t bringing in any money, hell he probably owes the label a significant amount of funds for that flop.
Good for him though, I’ll be watching as usual.
Good for Omarion! Does this mean that Shane got the boot before he went to trial on molestation charges??? I wish that they would replace Lil Mama. She gets on my nerves.