{"id":2908,"date":"2010-12-07T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=2908"},"modified":"2010-12-14T22:08:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T21:08:09","slug":"the-x-factor-simon-cowell-defend-x-factor-semi-final-sing-off-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/2908\/the-x-factor-simon-cowell-defend-x-factor-semi-final-sing-off-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"The X Factor: Simon Cowell Defend X Factor Semi Final Sing Off Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Cowell was forced to come out and defend the X Factor today amongst growing criticism from viewers over Sunday\u2019s results show.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Simon Cowell\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/images\/uk\/x2010\/week2_live\/judges\/judges_wk2_simon01.JPG\" title=\"Simon Cowell\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"638\" height=\"534\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview in <em>The Sun<\/em>, Simon insisted the show had done nothing wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Simon told the newspaper: \u201cWe haven\u2019t done anything wrong. All the artists knew there was going to be a sing-off. Mary and Cher were told last Monday to prepare a song for a sing-off if necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He explained to the tabloid:\u201dI genuinely do not know the exact placings of the artists \u2013 who is top and who is bottom. I never know those details until the series is finished.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has always been a sing-off when there are five people left in the competition. This is a lot of nonsense about nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Television watchdog Ofcom issued a statement yesterday indicating that it was unlikely complaints against the show would be upheld.<\/p>\n<p>Simon continued: \u201cI\u2019m always looking for ways to keep the show fresh. We knew we wanted four people in the final this year and I don\u2019t want to be accused of doing the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s more exciting and gives more people a chance to win it. That decision was made long ago \u2013 five or six weeks ago. It adds to the mystery and audience love the surprise element.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are doing our best to change the format. It\u2019s more exciting to have a sing off.\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":"Simon Cowell was forced to come out and defend the X Factor today amongst growing criticism from viewers over Sunday\u2019s results show. In \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/2908\/the-x-factor-simon-cowell-defend-x-factor-semi-final-sing-off-decision\/\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":4,"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-2908","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\/2908","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3102,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions\/3102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}