{"id":4321,"date":"2011-03-22T14:42:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T13:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=4321"},"modified":"2011-04-03T18:44:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T17:44:27","slug":"american-idol-producer-nigel-lythgoe-says-x-factor-is-not-a-talent-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/4321\/american-idol-producer-nigel-lythgoe-says-x-factor-is-not-a-talent-show\/","title":{"rendered":"American Idol Producer Nigel Lythgoe Says X Factor is NOT a Talent Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Nigel Lythgoe \" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/images\/uk\/realitytvspy\/thinkyoucandance\/nigel.JPG\" alt=\"Nigel Lythgoe\" width=\"358\" height=\"256\" \/><\/p>\n<p>American Idol producer and \u201cThe So You Think You Can Dance\u201d judge Nigel Lythgoe,\u00a0 claimed that The X Factor ITV show is not a talent show because it lacks \u2018integrity\u2019. He also and added that he\u2019s glad show boss Simon Cowell left Idol because it gave him a chance to \u2018refurbish it.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to The Radio Times about the return of his hit dance show this Saturday, Lythgoe said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have to choose contestants with talent \u2013 unless they have an incredible story to tell. I don\u2019t class The X Factor as a talent show. Look at Jedward and Wagner. They\u2019re on because we love the fun and the circus of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimon knows what he\u2019s doing \u2013 it certainly gives the press something to feed off. But it destroys the integrity of the show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cIn a way, I\u2019m delighted Simon\u2019s left American Idol. He\u2019s given us the opportunity to refurbish it,\u201d he said. \u201cEveryone said that it would be the end. And what\u2019s happened? The ratings are equal to last year\u2019s, we got 30 million votes the other evening, and if we lost 50% of our audience we would still be the number one show.\u201d<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* auditions 300x250, created 9\/6\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"7469702309\";\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":"American Idol producer and \u201cThe So You Think You Can Dance\u201d judge Nigel Lythgoe,\u00a0 claimed that The X Factor ITV show is not \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/4321\/american-idol-producer-nigel-lythgoe-says-x-factor-is-not-a-talent-show\/\"> [...]<\/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":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reality-tv-spy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321","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=4321"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4461,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions\/4461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}