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How far would you go for $5 million? For the thousands of singing hopefuls who crowded the Dallas Convention Center to audition for Simon Cowell’s new show X Factor this week, it seems that the answer is a resounding “Uh, pretty damn far, actually.”
These people waited spent two whole days waiting in line — first for a wristband that allowed them to audition, then for the auditions themselves. Folks began queuing up at 4 a.m. on both Wednesday and Thursday morning, just for the chance to sing for the judges.
We here at DC9 don’t have that kind of patience; we just snuck right in to the auditions through a back entrance. There, we got a couple of shots of X Factor hopefuls before being (gently) kicked out for taking pictures. Although many folks were dressed to the nines, they mostly just looked exhausted after waited two days to do something other than stand around in line.
Click on the jump for a photo diary of our stop by the auditions.
