{"id":454109,"date":"2026-02-02T18:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/454109\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T18:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:42:08","slug":"from-school-chorister-to-simon-cowell-boy-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/454109\/","title":{"rendered":"From school chorister to Simon Cowell boy band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A 17-year-old teenager has gone from school chorister to a high-profile boy band created by pop mogul Simon Cowell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">John Fadare, a pupil in Rochester, Kent, was selected to be a member of new group December 10 in a rigorous audition process, documented in a Netflix TV series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The band, made up of seven teenagers, released their debut single Run My Way on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Fadare said: &#8220;At school it&#8217;s weird as people don&#8217;t know how to act around me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old teenager has gone from school chorister to a high-profile boy band created by pop mogul Simon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-454109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}