{"id":2610,"date":"2010-11-23T20:34:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T19:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=2610"},"modified":"2010-11-23T20:34:19","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T19:34:19","slug":"katie-waissel-shocked-by-press-revelation-about-her-grandmother-being-a-prostitute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/2610\/katie-waissel-shocked-by-press-revelation-about-her-grandmother-being-a-prostitute\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Waissel Shocked By Press Revelation About Her Grandmother Being a Prostitute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Katie\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/images\/uk\/x2010\/week7_live\/katie01.JPG\" alt=\"Katie\" width=\"513\" height=\"349\" \/><br \/>\nKatie Waissel was reportedly left &#8220;stunned and shocked&#8221; when she heard about press stories concerning her grandmother.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, a tabloid newspaper alleged that the <em>X Factor<\/em> singer&#8217;s 81-year-old grandmother is a &#8216;secret prostitute&#8217; who charges \u00a3250 per hour.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Daily Star<\/em> reports that Waissel was informed of the story by X Factor staff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was taken into a private room by a couple of female staff who told her the whole story,&#8221; a source told the paper. &#8220;As you can imagine she was quite distraught and devastated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It came like a bolt from the blue for her &#8211; she had no idea that her gran was involved in anything like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They continued: &#8220;After a few tears, Katie calmed down a bit but did say, &#8216;I cannot believe this. When is all this going to stop? It&#8217;s just one thing after another.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, producers had the 24-year-old&#8217;s parents present to comfort her.<\/p>\n<p>The insider also said: &#8220;Katie showed her true steel by vowing to keep fighting on, making it clear that she was still standing and was staying to fight.&#8221;<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* auditions mid page 300x250, created 9\/6\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2217652781\";\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie Waissel was reportedly left &#8220;stunned and shocked&#8221; when she heard about press stories concerning her grandmother. Over the weekend, a tabloid newspaper \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/2610\/katie-waissel-shocked-by-press-revelation-about-her-grandmother-being-a-prostitute\/\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":4,"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-2610","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\/2610","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2612,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions\/2612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}