{"id":3840,"date":"2013-11-30T19:54:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T18:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/?p=3840"},"modified":"2013-11-30T20:55:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T19:55:50","slug":"nicholas-mcdonald-greatest-day-by-take-that-and-just-the-way-you-are-the-by-bruno-mars-x-factor-jukebox-theme-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/3840\/nicholas-mcdonald-greatest-day-by-take-that-and-just-the-way-you-are-the-by-bruno-mars-x-factor-jukebox-theme-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas McDonald Greatest Day by Take That and Just The Way You Are The  by Bruno Mars X Factor Jukebox theme night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mister contestant, Nicholas McDonald, turned 17 last week and Louis Walsh got him the present of his dreams, his first driving lesson.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/10\/nicholas-mcdonald-week1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/10\/nicholas-mcdonald-week1.jpg\" alt=\"nicholas mcdonald the x factor\" title=\"nicholas mcdonald the x factor\" width=\"590\" height=\"331\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/10\/nicholas-mcdonald-week1.jpg 590w, https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/10\/nicholas-mcdonald-week1-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Louis Walsh paid for the youngster to get behind the wheel for the first time even though he does not own a  provisional licence. But the teenager from Motherwell was able to take the lesson with a specialist company in a private car park.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas said: \u201cIf I make enough money, I\u2019ll buy a car for Christmas. I don\u2019t get pay but after the show if I get enough gigs, I\u2019ll buy one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It may be a while yet before Nicholas is able to own his first car, but before then, there is the small matter of winning the X Factor 2013 to attend to.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight Nicholas sings two songs tonight, \u2018Greatest Day\u2019 by Take That and Just The Way You Are by Bruno Mars, chosen by the X Factor public.<\/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\/LjhCEhWiKXk?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mister contestant, Nicholas McDonald, turned 17 last week and Louis Walsh got him the present of his dreams, his first driving lesson. Louis Walsh paid for the youngster to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[44,20],"class_list":["post-3840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liveshows","tag-nicholas-mcdonald","tag-the-x-factor-2013","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/files\/2013\/10\/nicholas-mcdonald-week1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840","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=3840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3847,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions\/3847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}