{"id":1416,"date":"2011-12-10T01:41:27","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T00:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2011-12-10T01:41:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T00:41:27","slug":"2011-wagner-has-his-say-on-the-x-factor-finalist-little-mix-marcus-and-amelia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/1416\/2011-wagner-has-his-say-on-the-x-factor-finalist-little-mix-marcus-and-amelia\/","title":{"rendered":"2011: Wagner has his say on The X Factor Finalist &#8211; Little Mix, Marcus and Amelia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Wagner\" src=\"\/images\/uk\/x2010\/misc_oct\/Wagner-Birmingham-.jpg\" alt=\"wagner\" width=\"319\" height=\"179\" \/>Wagner was perhaps last years most talked about act on The X Factor and yesterday he has been talking about this years batch of hopefuls that made it to The X factor finals.<\/p>\n<p>Wagner told the <em>Guardian<\/em> his thoughts on who should win The X Factor this year, as Little Mix, Marcus Collins and Amelia Lily prepare for battle at the Wembley Arena.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho would I like to win The X Factor? It does not bother me at all,\u201d he said, we imagine in his usual husky voice. \u201cI never bothered winning. What characterises the winner? Who is the best \u2013 Enrico Caruso, Giuseppe Di Stefano or Luciano Pavarotti? Who is a better singer \u2013 Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald or Rebecca Ferguson?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continues: \u201cSo, with regards to The X Factor 2011, I would be more comfortable talking about who I would like to watch on a live show. These would be Terry, John Wielding, Marlon Mackenzie, Misha B, Janet Devlin and Amelia Lily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No mention of \u00a0Marcus or Little Mix, but Wagner insists: \u201cMy personal opinion must not belittle any of the people whom I have not mentioned, for they are all artists who deserve respect as all human beings do, unless they do everything in their power not to deserve it.\u201d<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><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wagner was perhaps last years most talked about act on The X Factor and yesterday he has been talking about this years batch of hopefuls that made it to The [&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-1416","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\/1416","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=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}