{"id":791,"date":"2011-10-28T18:31:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T17:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/?p=791"},"modified":"2011-10-28T18:54:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T17:54:29","slug":"steven-spielberg-hooked-on-the-x-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/791\/steven-spielberg-hooked-on-the-x-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"2011: Steven Spielberg Hooked On The X Factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"stevenspielberg\" src=\"\/images\/movies\/2011\/news\/stevenspielberg.JPG\" alt=\"steven spielberg\" width=\"190\" height=\"168\" \/>Film producer and director Steven Spielberg, has admitted that he got totally hooked on The X factor, while visiting the UK last year.<\/p>\n<p>Spielberg, who is most famous for films like Jaws, ET and Jurassic Park, was in Britain working on the film War Horse last year, when he became a fan of the hit TV show.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed that he and his family spent a lot of time in hotel rooms while working in the UK and became totally \u2018infatuated\u2019 with Simon Cowell\u2019s show, and watched it \u2018all the time.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He admitted:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to go to sleep because I was shooting but I\u2019d wind up watching instead of sleeping. I became a sappy devotee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Steven did see one big difference between the UK show and American Idol, he thinks Simon was much nicer on the British series!<\/p>\n<p>Spielberg told Empire magazine: \u201cI couldn\u2019t believe how nice Cowell was to his fellow Brits and how horrendous he had been to all the Americans. What an attitude adjustment!\u201d<br \/>\n<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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Film producer and director Steven Spielberg, has admitted that he got totally hooked on The X factor, while visiting the UK last year. Spielberg, who is most famous for films [&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-791","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\/791","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=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}