America's Got Talent: Extreme is judged by Simon Cowell, Nikki Bella, and Travis Pastrana.
The American reality television and talent competition series “America's Got Talent: Extreme,” also known as AGT: Extreme, was created by Simon Cowell and aired on NBC from February 21 to March 14, 2022, after a sneak peek episode on February 20. The America's Got Talent offshoot series focuses on stunt performers. Cowell, Nikki Bella, and Travis Pastrana serve as the series' judges, and Terry Crews serves as its host. The format of the series is a streamlined version of the main “America's Got Talent” series, and it only features larger-scale acts—mostly stunt performers—that are inappropriate for a conventional stage setting.
Similar to the main series, acts that receive a majority vote from the judging panel during their audition performance advance to the finals. The judges can use buzzers to express their disapproval of an act, but each judge, along with host Terry Crews, can also use the "Golden Buzzer" to advance one act of their choice to the finals regardless of the votes of the other judges.
As in “America's Got Talent: The Champions,” acts are further eliminated in the finale before being whittled down to the top four and then the top two, with the winner taking home $500,000. The judges for “America's Got Talent: Extreme” are as follows:
Simon Cowell
Simon Cowell, an English record executive who first gained notoriety in the United States as one of the original “American Idol” judges, is probably well-known to viewers of reality television. Additionally, he has served as a judge for both “America's Got Talent” and “Britain's Got Talent” since 2016.
The Got Talent format was actually developed by Simon Cowell, who runs the media and entertainment business “Syco.” According to NBC, the format has drawn more than a billion viewers worldwide and has aired in 194 different countries.
The “X Factor” competitions are just one of Simon's TV ventures, according to NBC, which also claims that he has "launched more superstar careers than any other in history." One Direction, Camila Cabello, Leona Lewis, Fifth Harmony, James Arthur, and Grace VanderWaal are just a few of the recording artists whose careers he helped launch.
Nikki Bella
Nikki Bella joined the WWE's main roster of wrestlers in 2008, along with her twin sister Brie. She won the “WWE Divas Champion” title in 2012 and 2014, and according to WWE, she held it for a record-breaking 301 days.
Nikki and Brie joined the original cast of the reality series "Total Divas" on E! in 2013, and thanks to the success of that show, the sisters were given their own spinoff, "Total Bellas," which debuted on the network in 2016.
Nikki and actor-wrestler John Cena were engaged for several years before they announced their breakup in April 2018. She recently got engaged to her partner from Season 25 of "Dancing with the Stars," Artem Chigvintsev. She and Artem announced their engagement in January 2020, and in July of that same year, they had a son they named Matteo.
Travis Pastrana
Travis Pastrana is hailed by NBC as "one of the most accomplished athletes in the history of action sports," citing his background in off-road racing, rally car racing, freestyle motocross, and supercross.
Pastrana is also a daredevil who, as CBS Sports reported at the time, broke some of Evel Knievel's stunt records in 2018 as a tribute to the late stunt performer.
He cleared 52 cars (a distance of 143 feet), 16 buses (a distance of 192 feet), and the Caesar's Palace fountain (a distance of 149 feet and a jump) over the course of three motorcycle jumps in Las Vegas.
Terry Crews (Host)
Former American football player and current actor Terry Alan Crews also hosts television shows and is an artist. He portrayed Terry Jeffords in the Fox and NBC sitcom "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" (2013–2021) and Julius Rock in the UPN and CW comedy "Everybody Hates Chris," which aired from 2005 to 2009.
Crews hosted the American version of the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" from 2014 to 2015 and appeared in the BET reality series "The Family Crews" (2010–2011). His filmography includes roles in "Friday After Next," "White Chicks," "Idiocracy," "Blended," "The Expendables" series (2010–2014), and "Rumble" (2021). Following his participation in the same role for the program's spin-off series "America's Got Talent: The Champions," Crews started hosting "America's Got Talent" in 2019.
Crews played defensive end and linebacker for the “Los Angeles Rams,” “San Diego Chargers,” and “Washington Redskins” in the National Football League (NFL), as well as for the Rhein Fire in the World League of American Football (WLAF) and Western Michigan University in college football. As an outspoken supporter of women's rights and a sexism-fighting activist, Crews has spoken out about the abuse his family suffered at the hands of his violent father. He was also named one of the Time Persons of the Year in 2017 for coming forward with accounts of sexual assault during the Me Too movement.
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