{"id":3050,"date":"2010-12-13T01:14:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T00:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=3050"},"modified":"2010-12-14T21:56:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T20:56:16","slug":"the-x-factor-results-rebecca-ferguson-finished-in-second-place-with-distant-dreamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/3050\/the-x-factor-results-rebecca-ferguson-finished-in-second-place-with-distant-dreamer\/","title":{"rendered":"The X Factor Results: Rebecca Ferguson Finished In Second Place With Distant Dreamer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Ferguson finished the 2010 X Factor series in second place behind Matt Cardle after a strong performance on finals night.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Rebecca Ferguson\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/images\/uk\/x2010\/misc_oct\/Rebecca-Ferguson-m1.jpg\" alt=\"Rebecca Ferguson\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Singing Duffy\u2019s \u2018Distant Dreamer\u2019 as her final song on the night \u2013 the song that would have been her debut track if she had won \u2013 Rebecca showed her class yet again and made us wish she had won so we could download the track.<\/p>\n<p>The song was wholly suited to Rebecca\u2019s tone and range and we thought she sang it beautifully. It might not have been everybody\u2019s cup of tea but we loved it.<\/p>\n<p>This is what the judges had to say about her performance:<\/p>\n<p>Louis Walsh: We started out looking for an original authentic recording voice, you are it.<\/p>\n<p>Dannii Minogue: Beautiful performance and I\u2019m so glad you turned up at the auditions. The same as Matt you haven\u2019t had that belief in your talent but through the competition we\u2019ve seen you grow and you\u2019re a beautiful lady.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Cowell: That song was absolutely perfect for you Rebecca, I can\u2019t call this, I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Cheryl Cole: You have been an absolute dream to work with, right from the beginning. The nation has took you to their hearts and I want you to believe that.<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><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"590\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ffxumXh_vNQ&#038;hl=en_GB&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\nOn hearing the news that Matt had won\u00a0 Rebecca Ferguson said:<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m so happy, so grateful and Matt\u2019s amazing, I am happy to have gotten so far.<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":"Rebecca Ferguson finished the 2010 X Factor series in second place behind Matt Cardle after a strong performance on finals night. \u00a0 Singing \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/3050\/the-x-factor-results-rebecca-ferguson-finished-in-second-place-with-distant-dreamer\/\"> [...]<\/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-3050","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\/3050","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=3050"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3087,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}