{"id":14,"date":"2011-06-01T14:07:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T13:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/?p=14"},"modified":"2011-06-02T18:36:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T17:36:55","slug":"olly-murs-and-caroline-flack-are-the-new-xtra-factor-2011-presenters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/14\/olly-murs-and-caroline-flack-are-the-new-xtra-factor-2011-presenters\/","title":{"rendered":"Olly Murs and Caroline Flack Are The New Xtra Factor 2011 Presenters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Olly Murs\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/images\/uk\/olli\/olli02.JPG\" alt=\"Olly Murs\" width=\"243\" height=\"261\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Months of speculation over who would be hosting the Xtra Factor was finally come to an end\u00a0 as ITV announced that Olly Murs the 2009 X Factor runner-up would join forces with Caroline Flack on the show.<\/p>\n<p>The pair will front the new series of the ITV2 spin-off show after Konnie Huq got the axe earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Olly Murs finished The X Factor in second place back in 2009, behind Joe McElderry. Despite narrowly missing out in the final, Olly has gone on to have great success including a number one single and a top 10 debut album.<\/p>\n<p>Caroline Flack has already had experience hosting reality spin off shows, having presented <em>I\u2019m a Celebrity Get Me out of Here!<\/em>\u00a0 on ITV2.<\/p>\n<p>Critics have said the paring is a odd choice because Olly Murs have no previous experience in telly presenting. Many believe the\u00a0 \u2018F Factor\u2019 host Matt Edmondson would have been a more obvious choice.<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<p>The duo will be in Birmingham for the first auditions of The X Factor with new judges Kelly Rowland, Tulisa Contostavlos and Gary Barlow. Louis Walsh will also return to the panel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Months of speculation over who would be hosting the Xtra Factor was finally come to an end\u00a0 as ITV announced that Olly Murs the 2009 X Factor runner-up would join [&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-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}