{"id":2917,"date":"2013-10-05T13:37:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T12:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/?p=2917"},"modified":"2013-10-06T00:52:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T23:52:59","slug":"luke-friend-singing-cannonball-by-damien-rice-at-judges-houses-in-france-x-factor-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/2917\/luke-friend-singing-cannonball-by-damien-rice-at-judges-houses-in-france-x-factor-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"LUKE FRIEND singing Cannonball by Damien Rice at Judges Houses in France X Factor 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After his first audition on our TV screens a few weeks ago, Luke Friend has been talked about by many not because of his talent but because of his confession that he has not watched his Hair for over 9 months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/10\/lukefriend.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/10\/lukefriend.png\" alt=\"luke friend judges houses st tropez south of france\" title=\"luke friend judges houses st tropez south of france\" width=\"446\" height=\"411\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/10\/lukefriend.png 446w, https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/10\/lukefriend-300x276.png 300w, https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/10\/lukefriend-379x350.png 379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whatever you may think of that, there is no denying that this 17-year-old singer has real talent and at Louis Walsh judges houses in St Tropez he set out to prove it more than ever.<\/p>\n<p>Before singing \u2018Cannonball\u2019 by Damien Rice for Louis and his \u00a0guest judges, Nicole Appleton, Westlife&#8217;s Shane Filan and Sinitta in the South of France, Luke said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am going to sing like my life depends on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the end of his performance his emotions got the better of him, so much so that it moved Shane Filan who gave the teenager a reassuring hug to let him know that \u00a0he had done a good job.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards Filan exclaimed:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you see him at the end when he started crying? It means such a lot to him!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was enough to help Louis make up is mind and sent Luke through to the live shows.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* auditions mid page 300x250, created 9\/6\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2217652781\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\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=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mw-gH8WzZFQ?feature=player_embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After his first audition on our TV screens a few weeks ago, Luke Friend has been talked about by many not because of his talent but because of his confession [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-2917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-houses","tag-the-x-factor-2013","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/10\/lukefriend.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917","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=2917"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2959,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions\/2959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}