{"id":181604,"date":"2025-06-13T17:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T17:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/181604\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T17:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T17:10:10","slug":"x-factor-star-heading-to-dereham-has-talent-in-norfolk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/181604\/","title":{"rendered":"X Factor star heading to Dereham Has Talent in Norfolk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Those hoping to take home the top prize at Dereham Has Talent will get more than they bargained for as the event organisers have announced that a star will be in their midst.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Yousseph\u00a0Slimani, who rose to fame as &#8216;Chico&#8217; while competing on the X Factor in 2005, will host the event on January 24, 2026.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He\u00a0will be joined by Ryan Jenkins, an official Britain&#8217;s\u00a0Got Talent scout, at Dereham Memorial Hall.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/25226798.royal-norfolk-show-2025-food-entertainment-highlights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Norfolk Show promises a mouth-watering line-up of food and entertainment<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Chico made it to the quarter finals of the TV singing competition, becoming a fan favourite with his catchphrase &#8220;it&#8217;s Chico time&#8221; and jumping in Sharon Osbourne&#8217;s swimming pool while still holding a microphone.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"Chico now runs Block Fit classes\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Chico now runs Block Fit classes (Image: Newsquest) Now in his 50s, the former goat herder runs his own Block Fit classes and lives in Hertfordshire.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Tickets to the show cost \u00a320 and hopeful entrants should email a video of themselves performing to talent@superstar-productions.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those hoping to take home the top prize at Dereham Has Talent will get more than they bargained&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[77,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-181604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}