{"id":2449,"date":"2013-09-08T21:50:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T20:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2013-09-08T22:03:31","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T21:03:31","slug":"zoe-matthews-is-flying-the-flag-for-bargoed-in-wales-at-the-x-factor-2013-auditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/2449\/zoe-matthews-is-flying-the-flag-for-bargoed-in-wales-at-the-x-factor-2013-auditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoe Matthews is flying the flag for Bargoed in Wales at The X Factor 2013 auditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>19-year-old Zoe Mathews from Bargoed in Wales brought more than her singing voice to The X Factor auditions; she also brought the Welsh language.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/09\/zoe.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/09\/zoe.png\" alt=\"zoe mathews the x factor\" title=\"zoe mathews the x factor\" width=\"461\" height=\"339\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/09\/zoe.png 461w, http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/09\/zoe-300x220.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The beautiful Welsh blonde said she wanted to put Wales on The X Factor map, and in her VT she even started to promote the Welsh language among her fellow contestants and ITV2&#8217;s presenters Caroline and Matt.<\/p>\n<p>Zoe also impressed American judge Nicole scherzinger with her strong accent. The ex-Pussycat Dolls star was amazed to hear the way Zoe spoke, and said she loved it. But confessed she could not understand a word that she said.<\/p>\n<p>Zoe went onto sing Hurt by Christina Aguilera, but the judges thought she sang it as though she was impersonating Christina.<\/p>\n<p>However, Zoe did enough to impress and went through to the next round with four yeses.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* largexfactor 336x280, created 11\/25\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"7071761240\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\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>19-year-old Zoe Mathews from Bargoed in Wales brought more than her singing voice to The X Factor auditions; she also brought the Welsh language. The beautiful Welsh blonde said she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-2449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auditions","tag-the-x-factor-2013","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/09\/zoe.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449","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=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2458,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions\/2458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}