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Carrie Underwood ‘Hit the Ground Running’ as ‘American Idol’ Judge: ‘It’s Been a Whirlwind’

Carrie Underwood was put to work very quickly on American Idol, with long days of filming promotional content and auditions. Inside season 23’s secrets.

The country music superstar, 41, joined her fellow judges, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie, and host Ryan Seacrest in NYC for a photo shoot on October 2 for the upcoming season of the singing competition. They’ve been filming a lot of promotional content and auditions, so Carrie had to hit the ground running,” a source exclusively tells Life & Style. “We had a kid [beg], ‘I will work so hard,’ and Carrie was like, ‘I didn’t realize they would do this,’” Luke recalled.

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