Strictly Come Dancing Betting Odds: John Barnes Gone, Who’ll Win?
Sooner or later the Strictly Come Dancing contestants are going to have to learn that anyone who throws an on-camera strop will get voted out – just like Dominic Littlewood and, on Saturday’s show, John Barnes.
John Barnes: brilliant when he’s asked to do a Strictly Come Dancing latin dance, but useless if he’s asked to do a Strictly Come Dancing ballroom dance. Everyone knows that. But that theory took a beating on Saturday, when John’s Samba to Sir Juke was all flabby and out of shape. Sure, he wiggled his hips around like he was trying to loosen up a colon-impacted turd, but nothing more. And as well as the technique being a bit out, John Barnes also made the routine look roughly as fun as regrouting a mid-sized bathroom. And then threw a wobbly when he got crap scores. No wonder he got eliminated.
But who’s going to win Strictly Come Dancing if John Barnes isn’t? Here are the Strictly Come Dancing betting odds for Gethin Jones, Letitia Dean and Kelly Brook, with help from Paddy Power…
Gethin Jones – Now then, Gethin Jones might only be as expressively sexy as a month-old Pot Noodle, but you can’t deny that he isn’t clever. After weeks and weeks of getting a hammering by the Strictly Come Dancing judges for not being sexy enough, on Saturday’s Strictly Come Dancing he chose to do a Quickstep to You’re The Top – a dance where all romance is flung out in favour of hoofing around like Bambi with epilepsy all the time. However, even though the only emotion the dance allowed him to express was a sort of exhausted bewilderment, Gethin Jones still got it in the neck from the Strictly Come Dancing judges for not showing enough personality, saying that he should have shown “a bit more gaiety or fun.” And they’ve got a point – we’ve seen balsa wood sculptures of gravel with more personality than Gethin Jones when he’s dancing. SCORE – 34; Current Strictly Come Dancing betting odds – 8/1
Letitia Dean – Letitia Dean has two kinds of dance-modes; the one where she looks all graceful and serene, and the one that finishes with Letitia looking like she’s been chased up a mountain by a pack of hungry dogs that’ve mistaken her for a sausage. And on Saturday’s Strictly Come Dancing, Letitia Dean managed to combine the two – she did a nimble Viennese Waltz to She’s Always A Woman and got so out of breath in the process that she could barely speak. Best of all, Letitia Dean managed to complete the dance with the sort of perfectly fixed, lobotomised rictus grin that not even a harrowing humanitarian atrocity could shift from her face. That was what the Strictly Come Dancing judges must have wanted, though, because they told Letitia that “Altogether, I thought it was absolutely fantastic.” By and large, Letitia Dean is the best improved dancer since the first show, which officially makes her Strictly Come Dancing’s Leon Jackson. And, no, we don’t think that’s such a great plaudit either. SCORE – 32; Current Strictly Come Dancing betting odds – 28/1
Kelly Brook – Kelly’s whole week had a celebratory theme to it prior to Saturday’s Samba to Staying Alive. For a start it was her birthday, so she had a party that Billy Zane conspicuously didn’t attend, and then she followed it up by making her dance routine so universally wedding receptiony that it only really needed a crying girl, a drunken punch-up and a disappointing meal to complete the illusion. Once the routine was over – something signalled by Brendan Cole dropping Kelly on the back of her skull – the Strictly Come Dancing judges let rip: “My high expectations have fallen as hard as a lead balloon,” they ranted, and we think we have to agree – unless Kelly perks up her ideas, her chances of winning Strictly Come Dancing are all but over. Not that Kelly Brook will be too upset by that – at least it’ll mean she can add ‘failed dancer’ to the ‘failed TV presenter’ and ‘failed actress’ that’s already on her CV. SCORE – 29; Current Strictly Come Dancing betting odds – 6/1
Tomorrow – Strictly Come Dancing betting odds for Kenny Logan, Matt Di Angelo and Alesha Dixon. 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 Strictly Come Dancing betting odds page to see the latest, and best, betting odds.
