{"id":2807,"date":"2010-12-06T01:04:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T00:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=2807"},"modified":"2012-02-18T01:00:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T00:00:34","slug":"the-x-factor-simon-cowell%e2%80%99s-dirty-tactics-claims-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/2807\/the-x-factor-simon-cowell%e2%80%99s-dirty-tactics-claims-denied\/","title":{"rendered":"The X Factor: Simon Cowell\u2019s Dirty Tactics Claims Denied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Simon Cowell\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/images\/uk\/x2009\/simon10.JPG\" alt=\"Simon Cowell\" width=\"561\" height=\"313\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Simon Cowell hit out at Danni Minogue following her allegations of the mind games he has employed against her one remaining act Matt Cardle.<\/p>\n<p>Cowell spoke out after his unsympathetic attack on the ailing painter and decorator\u2019s second performance on Saturday night which sparked a live row with his mentor Dannii Minogue.<\/p>\n<p>Denying his game plan, Cowell said he was \u2018absolutely not\u2019 trying to push out the Essex lad in an apparent bid to pave the way for his boyband 1Direction.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018There\u2019s no point in sitting here if you are going to say everybody is fantastic\u2019, he told Minogue.<\/p>\n<p>The war or words came after Cowell told Cardle \u2018I\u2019m not a fan of the song\u2019, after the 27-year-old sang Billy Joel&#8217;s Always A Woman.<\/p>\n<p>Slamming the remarks, Minogue said: \u2018I think that\u2019s what we call tactics Mr Cowell.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It would appear that Dannii have long suspected that her fellow judges have used mind tricks to influence the public vote, but this is the first time she have openly challenged another judge on this issue.<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* largexfactor 336x280, created 11\/25\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"7071761240\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\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":"Simon Cowell hit out at Danni Minogue following her allegations of the mind games he has employed against her one remaining act Matt \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/2807\/the-x-factor-simon-cowell%e2%80%99s-dirty-tactics-claims-denied\/\"> [...]<\/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":[49,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-onedirection","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\/2807","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=2807"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6993,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions\/6993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}