Strictly Come Dancing Betting Odds: Ray Gone, Who’ll Win?

Strictly Come Dancing is always a treasure trove of surprise eliminations, and Saturday's edition was no different, as hulking man-dancer Ray Fearon somehow managed to get voted off by the Strictly Come Dancing viewers.

We're not sure why Ray Fearon got the Strictly Come Dancing shove - he's consistently been one of the best dancers on the show - but that's a question that the BBC1 Saturday teatime ballroom dancing TV show audience will have to figure out. But at least Ray Fearon, DJ Spoony and Mica Paris have all left Strictly Come Dancing, all the remaining dancers are nice and, you know, white. Not that Ray Fearon should care about the possible underlying racism of the Strictly Come Dancing audience - since he's been on Strictly Come Dancing, there's a very good chance that he's started having it off with Elle McPherson.

But now that Ray Fearon has left Strictly Come Dancing, who's going to win? Here are the Strictly Come Dancing betting odds for Peter Schmeichel, Claire King, Matt Dawson and Carol Smillie…

Peter Schmeichel - It took a while, but Peter Schmeichel has finally found his role in the grand Strictly Come Dancing scheme of things. It's a shame that the role involves Peter Schmeichel thwunking about the stage like an out-of-control robot from a zero-budget 1950s sci-fi movie, but a role's a role. But it could be worse - Peter Schmeichel could be like another sort of robot, like the harrowing robot vagina we saw on a documentary about old men who have sex with dolls on Channel Four over the weekend. Anyway, the dancing. On Saturday's Strictly Come Dancing Peter danced to Use It Up And Wear It Out, and was as crap as ever, prompting a Strictly Come Dancing judge to reel out the in no way pre-prepared line "When I heard those whistles in the music, I thought someone was going to come on and give you a red card." SCORE: 19 - Strictly Come Dancing betting odds - 40/1

Claire King - Week after week on Strictly Come Dancing, Claire King and Brendan Cole have been the pantomime villains of the piece. Or, to be more honest, the pantomime villain and the slaggy-looking middle-aged lady of the piece. On Saturday's Strictly Come Dancing, Claire and Brendan ditched all their dodgy amateur porno moves and tried to concentrate on the dancing, with a Strictly Come Dancing routine to Blue Moon that left the judges bewildered and confused and unable to use any of their pre-written pithy lines, instead coming up with purely spontaneous lines like "The gruesome twosome have become the smoothsome twosome! Claire, if only you'd felt the confidence and really performed that, it would have been excellent. It was close!" SCORE: 32 - Strictly Come Dancing betting odds - 33/1

Matt Dawson - Sometimes we wish we'd won the Rugby World Cup like Matt Dawson did. Actually we don't - the systematic buggery that goes on in the rugby world sort of leaves us cold - but winning it does allow Matt Dawson to say "If I can win the Rugby World Cup, I can do this" whenever anyone tells him he's crap at something. Like when people tell him that wiggling his arse on a teatime dancing programme in a properly horrifying way isn't the best way to maintain his reputation. Sadly, though, Matt Dawson's competitive streak shone through yet again on Saturday, meaning that he wasn't quite as rubbish as he has been lately. After his Strictly Come Dancing routine to You Make Me Feel So Young comprehensively failed to feature any embarrassing arse-wiggling, the judges told him "Finally some emotional connection: you won't believe how that changes the dance. Thank you, thank you!" SCORE: 34 - Current Strictly Come Dancing betting odds - 16/1

Carol Smillie - Carol Smillie? Carol Barely Suppressed Rage, more like. For someone who's presented rubbish like Changing Rooms and The People's Court, you'd expect that Carol Smillie would have learnt to take criticism gracefully, but when she was listening to the Strictly Come Dances pull apart her routine to It's Oh So Quiet, Carol's face was a weird mixture of clenched defiance and the sort of twitching that road rage sufferers get just before they stab lorry drivers to death with a screwdriver. And weirdly, the Strictly Come Dancing judges mostly liked the routine - saying "She has something, but you just need to get polished up. She has all the ability to dance, without being able to dance" - so god knows what she'd have done if the judges said she was rubbish. Which she was. SCORE: 27 - Current Strictly Come Dancing betting odds - 10/1 

Tomorrow - the same old Strictly Come Dancing frontrunner betting odds malarkey