{"id":36330,"date":"2014-12-23T16:28:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T08:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=36330"},"modified":"2014-12-23T16:36:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T08:36:04","slug":"truck-driver-hailed-x-factor-uk-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/23\/truck-driver-hailed-x-factor-uk-champ\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck driver hailed X Factor UK champ"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_36331\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36331\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ben.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36331\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ben-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ben-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ben-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ben-144x144.jpg 144w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ben.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Ben Haenow, a 29-year-old truck driver, emerged as the grand champion of the recently concluded 11th season of X Factor UK besting Fleur East in the finals.<\/p>\n<p>Haenow was not an early favorite in the show. However, he worked hard and proved his singing prowess and eventually brought home the crown.<\/p>\n<p>Before the finals, he sang the following songs: \u201cDemons,\u201d originally by Imagine Dragons; \u201cMan in the Mirror\u201d by Michael Jackson; and his own rendition of \u201cSomething I Need,\u201d originally by One Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, East also performed her own version of \u201cSomething I Need.\u201d She also sang \u201cCan\u2019t Hold Us\u201d by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis; and \u201cUptown Funk\u201d by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars.<\/p>\n<p>The finals were done in style as various artists from past seasons performed including One Direction. They went on stage together with Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones. Aside from the boy group, Olly Murs sang together with Demi Lovato. Grammy nominee Sam Smith also entertained the audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Ben Haenow, a 29-year-old truck driver, emerged as the grand champion of the recently concluded 11th season of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":36331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}