{"id":1379,"date":"2010-09-20T20:43:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T19:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2010-11-05T12:27:53","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T11:27:53","slug":"the-x-factor-2010-aiden-grimshaw-delivered-on-audition-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/1379\/the-x-factor-2010-aiden-grimshaw-delivered-on-audition-night\/","title":{"rendered":"The X Factor 2010: Aiden Grimshaw Delivered on Audition Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>18-year-old Aiden Grimshaw from Blackpool showed the X Factor judges his vocal range on Saturday night with an assured rendition of\u00a0 \u2018Gold-digger\u2019 by Kanye West.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aiden Grimshaw\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/images\/uk\/x2010\/aiden02.JPG\" title=\"Aiden Grimshaw\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"624\" height=\"344\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before his audition he said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to go round to my Grandma\u2019s house and I used to sing for my Grandma, all sorts of cheesy songs. I used to make her stand in the kitchen so she couldn\u2019t see me cos I used to get embarrassed when she looked at me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked who he thinks he could be as big as, Aiden says, \u201cSomebody different, maybe Damien Rice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After his performance, Louis Walsh said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAiden, you\u2019re like a breath of fresh air, you\u2019ve got your own kind of swagger. You\u2019re not impersonating anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nicole said: \u201cAiden, I love your voice; You have a lot of soul\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Simon said: \u201cNow That\u2019s What I call a Popstar!\u201d<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* middle blog 2 468x60, created 9\/10\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1963694971\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><br \/>\n<object width=\"590\" height=\"375\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_cj7FAxaFng&#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><br \/>\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"18-year-old Aiden Grimshaw from Blackpool showed the X Factor judges his vocal range on Saturday night with an assured rendition of\u00a0 \u2018Gold-digger\u2019 by \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/1379\/the-x-factor-2010-aiden-grimshaw-delivered-on-audition-night\/\"> [...]<\/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-1379","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\/1379","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=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2297,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions\/2297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}