{"id":7009,"date":"2014-05-10T14:01:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T13:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/?p=7009"},"modified":"2014-05-10T14:01:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T13:01:13","slug":"impressionist-jon-clegg-wowed-with-louis-walsh-and-simon-cowell-impressions-on-britains-got-talent-2014-auditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/7009\/impressionist-jon-clegg-wowed-with-louis-walsh-and-simon-cowell-impressions-on-britains-got-talent-2014-auditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressionist Jon Clegg wowed with Louis Walsh and Simon Cowell impressions on Britain\u2019s Got Talent 2014 Auditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Impressionist Jon Clegg wowed the Britain\u2019s Got Talent panel at his audition earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>In tonight\u2019s show he is seeing doing impersonations of a number of celebs including Big Brother narrator Marcus Bentley, Alan Carr, Marge and Homer Simpson, Louis Walsh and even Simon Cowell himself.<\/p>\n<p>Before taking to the stage, the 43 year old from Brighton revealed how impressions run in the family with his dad having auditioned for New Faces doing comedy impressions in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>After Jon\u2019s performance, David Walliams told hims: \u201cI loved that. You\u2019re a very funny man. You ticked all the boxes, the impressions were fantastic and your experience really shows through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Holden agreed: \u201cI\u2019m delighted for you because it\u2019s a really hard genre comedy, and I hope your Dad\u2019s proud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alesha Dixon said: \u201cYou just got better and better as the act went on. You should get extra points for doing Simon because that makes you a very brave man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/files\/2014\/05\/jon-clegg.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/files\/2014\/05\/jon-clegg.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"jon clegg\" width=\"570\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7010\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/files\/2014\/05\/jon-clegg.png 570w, http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/files\/2014\/05\/jon-clegg-300x178.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* auditions 300x250, created 9\/6\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"7469702309\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/7009\/impressionist-jon-clegg-wowed-with-louis-walsh-and-simon-cowell-impressions-on-britains-got-talent-2014-auditions\/\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 1805371;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impressionist Jon Clegg wowed the Britain\u2019s Got Talent panel at his audition earlier this year. In tonight\u2019s show he is seeing doing impersonations of a number of celebs including Big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 1805371;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-7009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auditions","tag-bgt-2014","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/files\/2014\/05\/jon-clegg.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7012,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009\/revisions\/7012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/bgt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}