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26 Jan, 2004

People cover

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jackson1Jackson appears on the cover of People after losing 100 pounds. Jackson decided to get gastric bypass surgery to help with the weight loss.

Randy did the surgery not for vanity but because his quality of life was going down.

10 Oct, 2011

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Seacrest interviews Jackson during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about DJing for the first time at the LA Food & Wine Festival.

I’m a real DJ. Listen, let me just put it out there right now, I may be playing some songs that you know will go against the KIIS FM playlist. But I am going to support. I’m going to give shoutouts, like this one goes out to Ryan and Ellen K.

24 May, 2012

Randy Jackson interview

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Seacrest interviews Jackson during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about American Idol’s season 11 winner.

I noticed during the middle of the season, no matter how harsh we judge Phillip, no matter what we say to him, no matter what Tommy Hilfiger would say to him, the drabbest color you can wear on stage is gray, he wore gray. The guy just was you couldn’t kill him, dude. He was that one, he was stealth, he stayed in there. We got it right. America always gets it right in the end. Listen all of those people will be fine. Jessica [Sanchez], Phillip, Joshua [Ledet], they’ll all have huge careers. I mean, they got giant careers ahead of them.

27 Mar, 2013

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Seacrest interviews Jackson during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about judging this season of American Idol. 

Dude, I’m telling you the girls are killing it week in and week out. If a girl doesn’t win this year I don’t know when a girl is going to win.