{"id":4967,"date":"2011-05-09T18:36:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T17:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=4967"},"modified":"2011-05-09T18:36:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T17:36:18","slug":"the-x-factor-gary-barlow-set-to-replace-simon-cowell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/4967\/the-x-factor-gary-barlow-set-to-replace-simon-cowell\/","title":{"rendered":"The X Factor: Gary Barlow Set to Replace Simon Cowell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Gary Barlow\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/images\/uk\/garrybarlow.JPG\" alt=\"Gary Barlow\" width=\"152\" height=\"131\" \/>Simon Cowell has reportedly confirmed that Take That singer\/songwriter Gary Barlow will be replacing him on The X Factor this year.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the press at yesterday\u2019s first auditions for The X Factor USA in LA, Simon is understood to have said the Barlow would be \u201cterrific\u201d for the show:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cGary Barlow is the first person confirmed. I think he would be terrific on it. He\u2019s very competitive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is expected that Gary will join Louis Walsh and Dannii Minogue who are set to return to the show, while a new female judge is also expected to replace Cheryl Cole.<\/p>\n<p>Cowell also said yesterday that he wasn\u2019t concerned about the future of the programme. \u201cI\u2019m not worried about it being a success,\u201d he told reporters, \u201cI promise you I\u2019m still going to be involved in the show. We are literally making it up on a daily basis and I really mean that. We are trying to come up with the best idea.\u201d<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 has reportedly confirmed that Take That singer\/songwriter Gary Barlow will be replacing him on The X Factor this year. Speaking to \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/4967\/the-x-factor-gary-barlow-set-to-replace-simon-cowell\/\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"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-4967","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\/4967","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4969,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967\/revisions\/4969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}