{"id":3812,"date":"2013-11-23T19:13:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T18:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/?p=3812"},"modified":"2013-11-23T19:13:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T18:13:56","slug":"luke-friend-what-makes-you-beautiful-by-one-direction-on-the-x-factor-best-of-theme-night-with-his-new-makeover-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/3812\/luke-friend-what-makes-you-beautiful-by-one-direction-on-the-x-factor-best-of-theme-night-with-his-new-makeover-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Friend What Makes You Beautiful by One Direction on The X Factor best of theme night with his new makeover image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Friend has had a bit of a makeover this week in an effort to appeal to a wider X Factor audience. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/11\/lukefriendmakeover.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/11\/lukefriendmakeover.png\" alt=\"luke friend makeover photo\" title=\"luke friend makeover photo\" width=\"582\" height=\"353\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3813\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/11\/lukefriendmakeover.png 582w, http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/11\/lukefriendmakeover-300x181.png 300w, http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/11\/lukefriendmakeover-577x350.png 577w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The funky young X Factor star is well known for his dreadlocks like unwashed hair, but it seem it has been a turn off for a lot of people, so now the 71-year-old is cleaning up is image in a bid to stay in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Last week Luke found himself in the bottom two with his mate Sam Callahan. Luke was saved by the judges following the sing-off, but he knows next time things might not go his way.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight he takes on One Direction\u2019s \u2018What Makes You Beautiful\u2019 and confess that he things it is a big risk.<\/p>\n<p>Taking time out of his intensive rehearsals today, the 17 year old star told Entertainmentwise that he wants to display his own style and persona during the performance, but doesn&#8217;t want to change the hit song too much in case it annoys the fans.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI\u2019m gonna go in with the same mindset\u2026.Just be positive and make sure I do the best I can. I\u2019ve just gotta be myself. Being myself is the main thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Luke continued: \u201cI\u2019m just really excited for what\u2019s gonna come. But it is taking a big risk, at the same time, because it\u2019s such a massive song\u2026 If I do it wrong and change it up too much, people might not enjoy it.\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><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QJO3ROT-A4E?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Friend has had a bit of a makeover this week in an effort to appeal to a wider X Factor audience. The funky young X Factor star is well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31,20],"class_list":["post-3812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liveshows","tag-luke-friend","tag-the-x-factor-2013","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/11\/lukefriendmakeover.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812","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=3812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3815,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812\/revisions\/3815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}