{"id":5397,"date":"2011-07-11T13:08:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T12:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=5397"},"modified":"2011-07-11T13:10:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T12:10:04","slug":"joe-mcelderry-crowned-winner-of-popstar-to-operastar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/5397\/joe-mcelderry-crowned-winner-of-popstar-to-operastar\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe McElderry Crowned Winner of Popstar to Operastar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"joe mcelderry operastar\" src=\"\/images\/uk\/joe\/joe26.JPG\" alt=\"joe mcelderry operastar\" width=\"255\" height=\"236\" \/>Former X Factor winner Joe McElderry was crowned \u00a0winner of Popstar to Operastar 2011 on Sunday night. The 20-year-old was up against ex-Bucks Fizz singer Cheryl Baker in the grand final on ITV1.<\/p>\n<p>Joe had been the strong favourite to win the second series of the reality show ahead of this evening\u2019s performances which saw the final two sing alongside mentors Katherine Jenkins and Rolando Villaz\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>Runner up Cheryl told host Myleene Klass after the result was announced: \u201cI didn\u2019t expect to get his far\u2026 I had my money on Joe from the beginning!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cI\u2019ve loved it, every minute of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joe also sung the former Eurovision winner\u2019s praises, saying: \u201cI\u2019ve had an absolute blast with Cheryl, I love her to bits.\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><br \/>\n<object style=\"height: 390px; width: 580px\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BGbiNYkLn78?version=3\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former X Factor winner Joe McElderry was crowned \u00a0winner of Popstar to Operastar 2011 on Sunday night. The 20-year-old was up against ex-Bucks \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/5397\/joe-mcelderry-crowned-winner-of-popstar-to-operastar\/\"> [...]<\/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":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5397","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\/5397","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=5397"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5400,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397\/revisions\/5400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}