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Posted: August 10, 2009 at 4:41 a.m.
Paula Abdul, who last week said she's quitting the popular TV show American Idol, can now count the ABC network as a potential new employer. ABC programming chief Stephen McPherson told the Television Critics Association on Saturday that he was "stunned" to hear she'd decided to leave the top-rated Fox series and that he's contacted Abdul, whom he called an old friend.
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