{"id":1472,"date":"2011-12-11T03:31:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T02:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2011-12-11T03:31:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T02:31:30","slug":"2011-x-factor-stars-little-mix-set-to-open-the-london-olympics-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/1472\/2011-x-factor-stars-little-mix-set-to-open-the-london-olympics-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"2011: X Factor stars Little Mix set to Open The London Olympics in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Little Mix Olympics 2012\" src=\"\/images\/uk\/x2011\/tulisa_littlemix2.bmp\" alt=\"Little Mix Olympics 2012\" width=\"353\" height=\"200\" \/>Tulisa\u2019s little muffins Little Mix, might not have been crown X Factor winner as yet, but that does not seem to have stopped the X Factor machine from planning their involvements in next years Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <em>Daily Star Sunday<\/em>, the group are set to perform at the Opening Ceremony next year.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper claims that Syco boss Simon Cowell, who last night said the group \u2018won the night\u2019 after the first half of the weekend\u2019s final, has been in talks with sports chiefs.<\/p>\n<p>The group \u2013 made up of Jade, Leigh-Anne, Jesy and Perrie \u2013 have been tipped to earn millions over the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the biggest opportunity an X Factor act will have been offered in the history of the show. It\u2019s taken months to pull off,\u201d a source explained to the tabloid. \u201cTo get a new act on the billing has been a massive task.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting this sorted will be \u00adimpressive, even for a heavyweight name like Simon Cowell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOriginally they wanted the winning act to perform but even if Marcus or Amelia pull off a shock result, Little Mix are still the stars of the series.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The source added: \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter if they don\u2019t win this weekend, they\u2019re set to make a killing from this deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir style has really struck a chord with girls watching the show.\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\/\/-->\t\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>Tulisa\u2019s little muffins Little Mix, might not have been crown X Factor winner as yet, but that does not seem to have stopped the X Factor machine from planning their [&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-1472","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\/1472","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=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1474,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions\/1474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}