{"id":343720,"date":"2011-03-28T07:56:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T07:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/28\/thousands-of-x-factor-hopefuls-brave-grim-los-angeles-weather-as-u-s-auditions-begin\/"},"modified":"2011-03-28T07:56:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T07:56:45","slug":"thousands-of-x-factor-hopefuls-brave-grim-los-angeles-weather-as-u-s-auditions-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/28\/thousands-of-x-factor-hopefuls-brave-grim-los-angeles-weather-as-u-s-auditions-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of X Factor hopefuls brave grim Los Angeles weather as U.S. auditions begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div><span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-1370519\/X-Factor-U-S-auditions-begin-Los-Angeles-thousand-hopefuls-arrive.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span><br \/>\ndailymail.co.uk<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a> : \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n X Factor U.S. officially got rolling today as thousands upon thousands of hopefuls descended on Los Angeles for the first round of auditions.<\/p>\n<p>A swarming crowd of around 18,000 people are assembled in the car park at the LA Sports Arena in Downtown Los Angeles &#8211; making it the largest talent show turnout the city has seen.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the rainy weather, would-be contestant camped out overnight in a bid to get a good spot before doors opened at 9am this morning.<\/p>\n<p>A show insider told MailOnline: &#8216;The scenes down here a crazy. There are around 18,000 people here and the numbers are growing by the second.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There&#8217;s gridlock on the freeways into the venue, it&#8217;s absolute chaos.<br \/>&#8216;These auditions are going to be going on well into the night &#8211; there are a lot of people to get through.&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/201ed65bget.media_1663-150x90.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The rest is here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/foreign.peacefmonline.com\/entertainment\/201103\/148374.php\" title=\"Thousands of X Factor hopefuls brave grim Los Angeles weather as U.S. auditions begin\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thousands of X Factor hopefuls brave grim Los Angeles weather as U.S. auditions begin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> dailymail.co.uk : \u00a0\u00a0 X Factor U.S. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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