{"id":2623,"date":"2013-09-21T14:54:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T13:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2013-09-21T20:33:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T19:33:29","slug":"sam-callahan-sings-youre-beautiful-by-james-blunt-at-the-x-factor-2013-auditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/2623\/sam-callahan-sings-youre-beautiful-by-james-blunt-at-the-x-factor-2013-auditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Callahan sings  You\u2019re Beautiful by James Blunt at The X Factor 2013 auditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Essex lad <a href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/2229\/\">Sam Callahan<\/a>, made is X Factor d\u00e9but with a James Blunt signature tune in an attempt to impress the judges and book himself a place in the next round of auditions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/09\/samcallahan.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/09\/samcallahan.png\" alt=\"sam callahan x factor audtiton\" title=\"sam callahan x factor audtiton\" width=\"446\" height=\"354\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2625\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/09\/samcallahan.png 446w, http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/09\/samcallahan-300x238.png 300w, http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/09\/samcallahan-440x350.png 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 19 year old singer currently works as a barman, but have also released a few tracks on iTunes to date in his quest to become a big music star.<\/p>\n<p>After delivering his rendition of \u2018You\u2019re Beautiful\u2019 by James Blunt for the panel, he received a mixed response.<\/p>\n<p>Sharon Osbourne and Louis Walsh both love his version of the track, but Take That front man Gary Barlow was not very excited and told the teenager that he did not hear anything \u2018special\u2019 in the audition. Barlow was even more annoyed when Sam asked for a second chance and promised he would \u2018bring it\u2019 on a big stage.<\/p>\n<p>Barlow ranted:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need to do that here! This is an audition in order to get to the stage. This drives me crazy this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the other judges were suitably impressed with Sam&#8217;s performance and he gets his chance to impress Gary in the arena tomorrow night going through with 3 yeses.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KBGmObxluds?feature=player_embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/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<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OBNOBb2qv1I?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essex lad Sam Callahan, made is X Factor d\u00e9but with a James Blunt signature tune in an attempt to impress the judges and book himself a place in the next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-2623","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\/samcallahan.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","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=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2659,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions\/2659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}