The singing competition show became a huge hit, as did a few of its winners.
In May 2013, he announced that he was leaving after Season 13.
He admitted toHealthDay, “Diabetes snuck up on me.
Although he began changing his lifestyle habits soon after, the star underwent a gastric bypass procedure in 2003.
We’ll have dinner, we’ll chat on the phone.
We’ve been plotting [project] ideas for a couple years now.
Maybe one of these years we’ll put something together.”
