{"id":2277,"date":"2013-08-31T20:55:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T19:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2013-09-08T20:49:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T19:49:47","slug":"tom-mann-a-football-coach-split-the-judges-at-his-x-factor-2013-audition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/2277\/tom-mann-a-football-coach-split-the-judges-at-his-x-factor-2013-audition\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Mann a football coach split the judges at his X Factor 2013 audition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Mann took to The X Factor stage at his audition to try and wow the judges for a place in the next round of the competition, but he ended up splitting the panel after his performance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/08\/tom-mann.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/08\/tom-mann.png\" alt=\"tom mann the x factor\" title=\"tom mann the x factor\" width=\"582\" height=\"345\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/08\/tom-mann.png 582w, https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/08\/tom-mann-300x177.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before auditioning the 19 year old football coach admitted that he couldn\u2019t afford to fail, telling Dermot O\u2019Leary:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a part time football coach. Today is important because I do want to be a role model for the kids and show the kids that they can chase their dream. Also, if I don\u2019t get through when I walk out I am going to get ribbed, my whole life\u2026not even for the week. I will get ripped.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to sing Passenger\u2019s \u2018Only Know\u2019 while accompanying himself on guitar.<\/p>\n<p>Gary enjoyed it Mann\u2019s rendition but Nicole had some reservations and said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how much you\u2019re going to stand out if you get to the next stage of this audition in front of 4,000 people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, she added:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is just something about you that I like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gary insisted:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe potential is all there and I am quite excited about you as a solo artist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Four yeses later and Tom had won himself a further audition at London\u2019s Wembley arena.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zFYpgiv_vt4?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><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><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0q5YB1PK06Y?feature=player_embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Mann took to The X Factor stage at his audition to try and wow the judges for a place in the next round of the competition, but he ended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auditions","tag-the-x-factor-2013","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/08\/tom-mann.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","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=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions\/2444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}