Dancing On Ice Betting Odds: Lee Sharpe Chucked Out

This series of Dancing On Ice is starting to edge to a climax now, and the standard of dancing is now so high that only the very best ice-dancers deserve a place in the competition - so not Lee Sharpe, a man more wooden wolf statue than ice skater.

Lee Sharpe is a gruff northern male, and therefore has no time for petty things like emotion. Sadly, though, emotion is the one thing he needed to embrace to be a contender in Dancing On Ice. Well, emotion and not falling over. And an open-minded wardrobe policy. Lee's Dancing On Ice partner tried everything to make him feel the music more - he went line-dancing and had to pretend a banana was a bunch of flowers from an over-stuffy acting coach - but Lee Sharpe's staunch refusal to do any of that girly crap was ultimately his downfall. That and the fact he was rubbish at dancing on ice, obviously.

So now Lee Sharpe has been voted out, are we any closer to knowing who'll win Dancing On Ice? Here's part one of this week's Dancing On Ice betting odds to win - for Emily Symons and Duncan James - with betting odds from Paddy Power…

Emily Symons - For two weeks on the trot before Saturday's Dancing On Ice, Emily Symons suffered from the kind of embarrassing stumbles that are more suited to a Yate's Wine Lodges at chucking-out time than the last few episodes of a pro-celebrity ice dancing contest. But despite this, Emily Symons has managed to scrape through Dancing On Ice time and time again, either because she's just plain more likable than Lisa Scott-Lee or because she's secured the male 'we like big boobs' vote. Either way, Emily's constant foul-ups have meant that she's now a complete nervous wreck who spends most of her Dancing On Ice training time in floods of pathetic tears, and these nerves couldn't help showing themselves during Saturday's routine to They Can't Take That Away From Me. Even though Emily's Dancing On Ice prop was a hat - which therefore really only allowed her to put a hat on her head and then take it off again - Emily still wobbled a bit during some of the trickier moves, and got a score of just 21.5 for it. That's better than she did the previous week, but hardly enough to win Dancing On Ice and become crowned Icy Dancing Lady Queen or whatever they call it. Current Dancing On Ice betting odds - 11/1

Duncan James - Over the course of Dancing On Ice, Duncan James has been just about the easiest contestant to pick on for all kinds of reasons - his giant fluffy hair, his twatty little Three Musketeers beard, that kind of thing - but on Saturday Duncan all but wrote 'mock me' across his own forehead when, overcome by survivor's guilt for beating Lisa Scott-Lee the previous week, he blubbed "I'm gonna do this for Lisa" during training. She hasn't died, you soppy tit, she was knocked out of an ice skating competition. And then, following that, Duncan James really infuriated us by performing his routine to Mr Blue Sky really rather well. Duncan's Dancing On Ice prop was an umbrella and - instead of taking Britney Spears' recent lead and using it to thump the shit out of someone's car - Duncan James and his partner utilised the brolly incredibly well; using it to spin, lift and - in one deceptively tough-looking move - throw between each other. As much as we hate ourselves for admitting it, Duncan's Dancing On Ice routine was quite good, and received a score of 25.5 from the Dancing On Ice judges. Next week's routine better be really awful or we'll have to ask ourselves some pretty serious questions. Current Dancing On Ice betting odds - 7/1

Tomorrow - more Dancing On Ice betting odds. But if that's too long to wait - or you feel like making more money than you know what to do with - head right over to the Paddy Power Dancing On Ice betting odds page to see the latest, and best, betting odds.