{"id":3669,"date":"2013-11-10T00:34:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T23:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/?p=3669"},"modified":"2013-11-10T01:02:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T00:02:46","slug":"x-factor-uk-live-tour-line-up-confirmed-for-2014-by-simon-cowell-making-a-special-appearance-on-the-x-factor-big-band-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/3669\/x-factor-uk-live-tour-line-up-confirmed-for-2014-by-simon-cowell-making-a-special-appearance-on-the-x-factor-big-band-night\/","title":{"rendered":"X Factor UK live tour line up confirmed for 2014 by Simon Cowell making a special appearance on the X Factor big band night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Cowell made a surprise appearance during tonight\u2019s X Factor live show in a VT to tell the remaining contestants that they will all be taking part in the live tour in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/04\/simon02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2125\" title=\"simon cowell return to the x factor 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/04\/simon02.jpg\" alt=\"simon cowell return to the x factor 2013\" width=\"375\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/04\/simon02.jpg 375w, http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/04\/simon02-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abi Alton, Hannah Barrett, Luke Friend, Nicholas McDonald, Rough Copy, Sam Bailey, Sam Callahan and Tamera Foster are the last eight contestants on the show and will all be on the bill for next year\u2019s tour.<\/p>\n<p>The arena tour will visit all the major cities across the country with contestants performing songs from this year\u2019s series.<\/p>\n<p>The tour will kick off in Belfast on the 15th of February, 2014, before moving to Dublin for two nights at the O2 on the 17th of February.<\/p>\n<p>It then moves back to the UK on February 22 in Manchester before visiting Newcastle at the end of the month. The tour will also include dates in Birmingham at the end of March, and at Wembley and The O2 in London.<\/p>\n<p>On hearing the news Sam Bailey said: \u201cGetting the news that I\u2019d be on the tour has made me realise that dreams do come true because now, after all this time, I\u2019m finally where I belong and I can\u2019t wait to get that butterfly feeling from the roar of the crowd every night (even though they\u2019ll all be screaming for Sam Callahan!)\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Sam Callahan commented: \u201cI\u2019M GOING ON TOUR!\u201d That\u2019s actually something I\u2019ve always wanted to be able to say. I\u2019m having the time of my life being in X factor and i\u2019m buzzing knowing that when it all comes to an end, the adventure continues! Best of all I get to share it with the amazing friends I\u2019ve made along the way!\u201d<\/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>Simon Cowell made a surprise appearance during tonight\u2019s X Factor live show in a VT to tell the remaining contestants that they will all be taking part in the live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-3669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liveshows","category-news","tag-the-x-factor-2013","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/04\/simon02.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669","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=3669"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3671,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions\/3671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}