In 2002, during his time on Will & Grace, Harry Connick Jr. joined Debra Messing for the finale of a new show called American Idol. Sitting in the audience that night, they were rewarded with a knockout performance of "A Moment Like This" by the show's inaugural winner, Kelly Clarkson. But even as he appreciated a moment like that, Connick never dreamed that, more than a decade later, he would become one of the show's three judges. "That team of Simon and Randy and Paula was so successful that we just assumed that they would be the judges for the next 50 years," says Connick in his pleasant New Orleans drawl. "We were big fans of the show, and just to be in the audience that night was pretty cool."
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