{"id":8094,"date":"2012-04-21T19:40:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T18:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=8094"},"modified":"2012-04-21T19:40:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T18:40:17","slug":"the-voice-uk-2012-max-milner-knocks-out-bill-downs-in-the-sing-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/8094\/the-voice-uk-2012-max-milner-knocks-out-bill-downs-in-the-sing-off\/","title":{"rendered":"The Voice UK 2012: Max Milner  Knocks Out Bill Downs in the sing-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"bill downs max milner the voice\" src=\"\/images\/uk\/thevoice\/2012\/billdowns-maxmilner.jpg\" alt=\"bill downs max milner the voice\" width=\"276\" height=\"208\" \/>The second pair in the Battle Round sing-off on the voice tonight was Max Milner and Bill Downs, and it is Max Milner who became Danny O\u2019Donoghue\u2019s first act in The Voice UK live shows after beating his rival Bill Downs.<\/p>\n<p>The Script frontman paired the singers together believing they \u2018fill the same role\u2019 on his team, but Bill immediately felt he was at a disadvantage due to his opponent\u2019s background in musical theatre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust getting on a stage that big and singing in front of all those people is sort of a big thing for me. Max has done it before,\u201d explained the 24-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>But Max said: \u201cI would just use what I\u2019ve got that maybe he doesn\u2019t. I\u2019m gonna feel confident and comfortable up there that I can entertain people and that\u2019s what I will do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After their performances of Madcon\u2019s \u2018Beggin\u2019, Will.i.am raved about Bill\u2019s effort. \u201cMax, when you were dancing around the stage, sometimes you went flat, while Mr Throwin It Down was slicing them and dicing them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I had to pick, I would have went with Bill.i.am over there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tom Jones said that they were \u2018evenly matched\u2019, while Jessie J praised their \u2018crazy licks\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Danny delivered his verdict by saying. \u201cMax throughout this whole thing I\u2019ve seen a spark in you, but over the course of the rehearsals and what I\u2019ve seen tonight how much Bill has come along. I\u2019m talking leaps and bounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Going on his \u2018gut insinct\u2019, he then announced: \u201cThe person I\u2019m gonna take through to the live shows with me is Max.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><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 \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second pair in the Battle Round sing-off on the voice tonight was Max Milner and Bill Downs, and it is Max Milner \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/8094\/the-voice-uk-2012-max-milner-knocks-out-bill-downs-in-the-sing-off\/\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thevoice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8094","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=8094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8096,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8094\/revisions\/8096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}