...Bobby Bones to fill in as host

https://twitter.com/AmericanIdol/status/1115329428421214211

Tonight will mark Seacrest's first sick day in 17 seasons, so the reining Dancing with the Stars champion will take over hosting duties. "I look most like him, so they asked me to fill his shoes tonight," Bones says in tonight's intro (https://twitter.com/mrBobbyBones/status/1115330061790470145).

If the short-lived 2003 Idol spinoff American Juniors counts in this, Ryan Seacrest missed one results show of that spinoff, and Gladys Knight filled in for him that night.

Did American Idol work without Ryan Seacrest? (https://www.tvinsider.com/766569/ryan-seacrest-leaving-american-idol-host-bobby-bones/)

Seacrest took his first-ever sick day in 17 seasons of Idol, with Bobby Bones filling in as host. Some fans thought Bones did a great job. According to a TVLine online poll, 45.53% missed Seacrest (https://twitter.com/TVLine/status/1115648749286699008), 31.52% didn't notice and 22.95% preferred Bones.