{"id":1553,"date":"2010-10-01T12:19:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T11:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2010-10-02T12:28:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T11:28:46","slug":"the-x-factor-simon-cowell-gutted-about-contestant-names-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/1553\/the-x-factor-simon-cowell-gutted-about-contestant-names-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"The X Factor: Simon Cowell Gutted About Contestant Names Leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Simon Cowell\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/images\/uk\/simon02.JPG\" alt=\"Simon Cowell\" width=\"375\" height=\"266\" \/>Simon Cowell is said to be very disappointed after the names of The X Factor finalists were leaked on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>The 12 names through to the live shows were posted on a website, just days before the finalists are revealed on the ITV.<\/p>\n<p>A source told the daily Mirror: &#8220;Simon is very, very disappointed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Simon, the show&#8217;s creator, keeps the finalists&#8217; names under lock and key. Journalists are not aloud to see the names and the acts are made to sign confidentiality agreements.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming two episodes will see the remaining 36 acts from the boys, girls, over-28s and groups categories whittled down to the final 12.<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n google_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\"; \/* middle blog 2 468x60, created 9\/10\/10 *\/ google_ad_slot = \"1963694971\"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Simon Cowell is said to be very disappointed after the names of The X Factor finalists were leaked on the internet. The 12 \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/1553\/the-x-factor-simon-cowell-gutted-about-contestant-names-leak\/\"> [...]<\/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-1553","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\/1553","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=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}