{"id":1329,"date":"2010-09-06T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2010-09-10T20:54:44","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T19:54:44","slug":"the-x-factor-the-return-of-liam-payne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/1329\/the-x-factor-the-return-of-liam-payne\/","title":{"rendered":"The X Factor: The Return of Liam Payne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>16-year-old Liam Payne made his return to The X Factor on Saturday night after his judge\u2019s home exit in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Liam Payne\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/images\/uk\/x2010\/liam01.JPG\" alt=\"Liam Payne\" width=\"595\" height=\"286\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Liam, from Wolverhampton entered the auditions in Birmingham where he performed a rendition of \u00a0\u2018Cry Me A River\u2019 by Justin Timberlake.\u00a0 He received a standing ovation from Simon Cowell who decided not to put Liam through to the finals back in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>On the night Liam was asked if Simon had made the right decision two years ago and replied:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do think Simon made the right decision because I was really young and I wasn\u2019t ready. Now I\u2019m 16 and I\u2019m ready to give it another shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following Liam\u2019s performance Simon Cowell said:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cThis goes to prove my point. Two years ago I said you needed to go away for a little bit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve changed into a man and are so much better for it.\u201d<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* middle blog 2 468x60, created 9\/10\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1963694971\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"590\" height=\"375\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iNbVZfkt5vM&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6&#038;hl=en_GB&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"16-year-old Liam Payne made his return to The X Factor on Saturday night after his judge\u2019s home exit in 2008. Liam, from Wolverhampton \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/1329\/the-x-factor-the-return-of-liam-payne\/\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-x-factor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1337,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}