{"id":497,"date":"2011-10-08T14:32:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T13:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/?p=497"},"modified":"2011-10-08T14:32:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T13:32:27","slug":"2011-simon-cowell-out-of-pocket-by-200000-by-axing-the-x-factor-public-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/497\/2011-simon-cowell-out-of-pocket-by-200000-by-axing-the-x-factor-public-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"2011: Simon Cowell Out Of Pocket by \u00a3200,000 by axing the X Factor Public Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Simon Cowell\" src=\"\/images\/uk\/simon02.JPG\" alt=\"Simon Cowell\" width=\"225\" height=\"160\" \/>Simon Cowell is reportedly expected to lose \u00a3200,000 this weekend after axing the public vote on Sunday night\u2019s result show.<\/p>\n<p>This week the X Factor revealed that their BIG Twist is to make the judges &#8211; Gary Barlow, Kelly Rowland, Tulisa Contostavlos and Louis Walsh &#8211; decide who goes, as they have been asked to axe one contestant from their own categories.<\/p>\n<p>This is a first for the X Factor and it looks quite harsh and is bound to cause drama and tears, not least that the judges have become friends with many of the contestants.<\/p>\n<p>And without a public vote, the twist will cost ITV a lot of money in the hopes that the change will boost ratings.<\/p>\n<p>A source told <em>The Sun<\/em>: \u201cThe series has a new judging panel and ITV wants bumper ratings for the first live episodes.\u201d<br \/>\n<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 is reportedly expected to lose \u00a3200,000 this weekend after axing the public vote on Sunday night\u2019s result show. This week the X Factor revealed that their BIG Twist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","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=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}