{"id":1349,"date":"2011-12-06T15:27:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T14:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2011-12-06T15:27:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T14:27:20","slug":"2011-amelia-lily-to-play-the-empire-at-her-x-factor-homecoming-in-middlesbrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/1349\/2011-amelia-lily-to-play-the-empire-at-her-x-factor-homecoming-in-middlesbrough\/","title":{"rendered":"2011: Amelia Lily to play the Empire at her X Factor Homecoming in Middlesbrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Amelia lily homecoming\" src=\"\/images\/uk\/x2011\/amelialily01.JPG\" alt=\"Amelia lily homecoming\" width=\"280\" height=\"177\" \/>Amelia Lily will visit her hometown of \u00a0Middlesbrough today to thank her fans for their support.<\/p>\n<p>The X Factor star who at just 17-years-old will be the youngest contestant to make the X Factor finals this week end, will be playing a free gig at the city\u2019s Empire venue.<\/p>\n<p>Amelia will be joined by mentor Kelly Rowland for the event, from 6.30PM to 9PM on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The 1,000 tickets made available for the gig was sold out yesterday in just five minutes. Fans of the teenager braved the bitter cold to queue up for hours in order to see Amelia and mentor Kelly later on the week.<\/p>\n<p>The pair will be making a red carpet entrance at the venue before a 30 minute set to drum up local support ahead of Saturday\u2019s final at Wembley Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Amelia\u2019s fellow finalists Marcus Collins and Little Mix will both be making similar appearances in their hometowns this week.<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* auditions mid page 300x250, created 9\/6\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2217652781\";\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":"<p>Amelia Lily will visit her hometown of \u00a0Middlesbrough today to thank her fans for their support. The X Factor star who at just 17-years-old will be the youngest contestant to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}