{"id":3071,"date":"2010-12-14T19:10:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T18:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=3071"},"modified":"2012-02-18T00:57:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T23:57:28","slug":"the-x-factor-harry-styles-and-his-new-best-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/3071\/the-x-factor-harry-styles-and-his-new-best-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"The X Factor: Harry Styles and His New Best Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Styles from One Direction said he has left the The X Factor with &#8220;four new best friends&#8221;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Harry Styles\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/images\/uk\/x2010\/week2_live\/harry_show2c4.JPG\" title=\"Harry Styles\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"590\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The One Direction lads did not know each other before entering the competition, but thanks to Nicole Scherzinger and Simon Cowell they could be best friends for life.<\/p>\n<p>Styles, Liam Payne, Zain Malik, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan finished third on the  ITV1 talent show, losing out to Rebecca Ferguson and eventual winner Matt Cardle. <\/p>\n<p>However, the band remained upbeat following their exit, insisting that they have no plans to break up and go solo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Us five being put together is the best thing that&#8217;s happened to all of us,&#8221; said Styles in an interview on the Xtra Factor. &#8220;We leave with four new best friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zain Malik said: &#8220;I think One Direction will definitely stay together. This is just the beginning. We have a bright future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tomlinson added: &#8220;The two people we went out to are amazing people and amazing singers. They thoroughly deserved it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Matt is incredible. He is an amazing singer and an amazing guy. He&#8217;s worked hard on his music career for years and this is where it has got him.&#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":"Harry Styles from One Direction said he has left the The X Factor with &#8220;four new best friends&#8221;. The One Direction lads did \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/3071\/the-x-factor-harry-styles-and-his-new-best-friends\/\"> [...]<\/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":[31],"class_list":["post-3071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-onedirection","category-the-x-factor","tag-one-direction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071","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=3071"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6984,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions\/6984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}