{"id":1283,"date":"2010-08-31T18:51:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T17:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2010-09-03T18:58:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T17:58:55","slug":"the-x-factor-the-return-of-anastasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/1283\/the-x-factor-the-return-of-anastasia\/","title":{"rendered":"The X Factor: The Return Of Anastasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former X Factor contestant Anastasia returned to The X Factor on Saturday night for a second attempt to land a place in the Finals.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Anastasia \" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/images\/uk\/x2010\/annastasia02.JPG\" alt=\"Anastasia \" width=\"546\" height=\"278\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old originally auditioned two years ago where she made it to the judges\u2019 houses, but wasn\u2019t taken through to the live finals by her mentor Cheryl Cole. That year Alexandra Burke was crowned winner with JLS as runner up.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking before her audition, Anastasia said: \u201cWhen I got a no from Cheryl it really did upset me. But I\u2019m here now to prove that I am strong enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re a mum, like I am, you just have to teach your children to never give up on their dream. I have to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked by Cheryl if she felt her decision at the time was correct, Anastasia replied: \u201cYes, I definitely think you made the right choice. My daughter was really, really young and I don\u2019t think my emotions meant I could cope with it. I wasn\u2019t myself. When you see me perform now you\u2019ll see who I really am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anastasia then started her audition by performing Tina Turner\u2019s \u2018Proud Mary\u2019, only to be stopped by Simon mid way through her performance. He said: \u201cThis is like one of these terrible Tina Turner tribute acts,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve seen trannies do better versions. I have\u2026 I think you\u2019re a better singer than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked to sing another song, Anastasia opted for Adele\u2019s \u201cMake You Feel My Love\u201d which went done much better with the judges.<\/p>\n<p>Simon said she was a \u201creally talented singer\u201d before giving her a yes along with Cheryl and Louis that saw her through to bootcamp.<\/p>\n<p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* blogsmalllink 468x15, created 6\/7\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"6221751502\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 15;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"590\" height=\"375\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7ST5uii4pGU&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6&#038;hl=en_GB&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former X Factor contestant Anastasia returned to The X Factor on Saturday night for a second attempt to land a place in the \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/1283\/the-x-factor-the-return-of-anastasia\/\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-x-factor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}