{"id":618,"date":"2010-06-08T19:30:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T18:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=618"},"modified":"2010-06-10T19:41:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T18:41:37","slug":"konnie-huq-to-replace-holly-willoughby-on-the-xtra-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/618\/konnie-huq-to-replace-holly-willoughby-on-the-xtra-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"Konnie Huq to Replace Holly Willoughby on The Xtra Factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been announced that former Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq has become the new presenter of The Xtra Factor on ITV2.<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* blogtextmix 300x250, created 5\/12\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"5859621078\";\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<p>Konnie will take over from Holly Willoughby who announced last year she would be leaving the programme to focus on her ITV \u2018This Morning\u2019 role.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Konnie Huq \" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/images\/music\/konni01.JPG\" alt=\"Konnie Huq \" width=\"482\" height=\"337\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nOn confirming her new job, Konnie said: \u201cI am delighted to be joining The Xtra Factor team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s amazing to be a part of one of the most popular and well-loved shows on television and I can\u2019t wait to get started.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richard Holloway, Head of Entertainment at TalkbackTHAMES, said: \u201cI\u2019m delighted that Konnie is joining The Xtra Factor team I\u2019m sure she will bring her own distinctive style to the show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Konnie will be the fourth presenter of the show since it started. Previous presenters also include Ben Shepherd and Fearne Cotton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been announced that former Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq has become the new presenter of The Xtra Factor on ITV2. Konnie \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/618\/konnie-huq-to-replace-holly-willoughby-on-the-xtra-factor\/\"> [...]<\/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-618","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\/618","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=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}