{"id":1217,"date":"2026-09-30T18:37:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T18:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newspost24h.com\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2026-09-30T18:37:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T18:37:40","slug":"all-six-chairs-were-taken-then-nervous-16-year-old-olivia-started-singing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspost24h.com\/?p=1217","title":{"rendered":"All Six Chairs Were Taken\u2026 Then Nervous 16-Year-Old Olivia Started Singing.."},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-7881\" class=\"article-post post-7881 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail  category-interesting\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The pressure couldn\u2019t have been much higher when <strong>16-year-old Olivia Garcia<\/strong> walked onto <em>The X Factor UK<\/em> stage for the dreaded Six Chair Challenge in 2016. She was the <strong>last girl to perform<\/strong>, and every one of Simon Cowell\u2019s six chairs was already occupied. To continue in the competition, Olivia wouldn\u2019t simply have to impress Simon\u2014she would have to convince him to send another singer home.<\/p>\n<p>Olivia was visibly overwhelmed by the situation. Her voice cracked as she spoke before the performance, and Simon even pointed out to the other judges just how nervous she looked. But everything changed once the music started.<\/p>\n<p>Performing <strong>\u201cChanging\u201d by Sigma featuring Paloma Faith<\/strong>, Olivia quickly pushed through her nerves and delivered a powerful vocal performance. The audience erupted, and the judges\u2019 reactions showed just how dramatically the teenager had transformed once she began singing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"b-r b-r--after_p_1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"b-r b-r--middle_content\"><\/div>\n<p>Louis Walsh described her performance as flawless, while Sharon Osbourne and Nicole Scherzinger were also impressed. Simon was left with the decision he had been dreading: all his chairs were occupied, but Olivia had done enough to deserve one. He ultimately gave her a seat, meaning another contestant had to leave.<\/p>\n<p>Olivia survived the Six Chair Challenge and became one of Simon\u2019s final six girls heading into Judges\u2019 Houses. What began with a terrified teenager facing seemingly impossible odds ended with one of the most dramatic performances of the round.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The X Factor UK 2016 6 Chair Challenge Olivia Garcia Full Clip S13E09\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wUF7Q4EiiZ8?feature=oembed\" width=\"730\" height=\"411\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-original-w=\"730\" data-original-h=\"411\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"b-r b-r--after_content\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"rating-box\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pressure couldn\u2019t have been much higher when 16-year-old Olivia Garcia walked onto The X Factor UK stage for the dreaded Six Chair Challenge in 2016. She was the last &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspost24h.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspost24h.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspost24h.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspost24h.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspost24h.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newspost24h.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"https:\/\/newspost24h.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions\/1219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspost24h.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspost24h.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspost24h.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspost24h.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}