{"id":2578,"date":"2013-09-16T00:09:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T23:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2013-09-16T00:09:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T23:09:02","slug":"scottish-student-nicolas-mcdonald-booked-his-place-at-bootcamp-with-a-thousand-years-by-christina-perri-at-the-x-factor-arena-auditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/2578\/scottish-student-nicolas-mcdonald-booked-his-place-at-bootcamp-with-a-thousand-years-by-christina-perri-at-the-x-factor-arena-auditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish student Nicolas McDonald booked his place at bootcamp with \u2018A Thousand Years\u2019 by Christina Perri at The X Factor arena auditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>16 year old Nicholas McDonald from Motherwell, returned to the X Factor tonight and surprised the judges and the Wembley Arena crowed with his performance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/09\/nicholas-mcdonald.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/09\/nicholas-mcdonald.png\" alt=\"nicholas mcdonald x factor\" title=\"nicholas mcdonald x factor\" width=\"604\" height=\"347\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2579\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/09\/nicholas-mcdonald.png 604w, http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/09\/nicholas-mcdonald-300x172.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps no one was more surprised than Gary Barlow, because he told the youngster that he may need another year before he would be ready for the competition after his first audition.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking before his performance Nicholas confessed:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGary said no and I was too young but I am here to try and prove him wrong. When I got through it was absolutely amazing. I managed to get a kiss of Nicole. I was really chuffed with that and all my friends were jealous when I told them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mum and dad are amazing and they have supported me all the way. If it wasn\u2019t for them I wouldn\u2019t be here today.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s really overwhelming being here, everyone looks like a pop star and I don\u2019t fit in with that. I don\u2019t look like a pop star, I look like a wee Scottish guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas went on to sing his version of \u2018A Thousand Years\u2019 by Christina Perri and received a standing ovation from audience.<\/p>\n<p>Nicole Scherzinger said: \u201cNicholas you have a gorgeous voice, you\u2019re really special. That was a brilliant audition, it was effortless! I genuinely cannot wait to hear your voice again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sharon Osbourne: \u201cYou owned that audition, perfectly sung.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Louis Walsh: \u00a0\u201cNicholas you nailed that, that was just incredible. if I was marking that out of ten i\u2019d give you ten.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gary Barlow: \u00a0\u201cI thought your audition was ok when we seen you last but today you completely knocked it out of the park, you really did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><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<p>Nicolas sailed through to bootcamp with four yeses.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-C44KsgfCjY?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 year old Nicholas McDonald from Motherwell, returned to the X Factor tonight and surprised the judges and the Wembley Arena crowed with his performance. Perhaps no one was more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-2578","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\/nicholas-mcdonald.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578","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=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2581,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions\/2581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}