Strictly Come Dancing Betting Odds: Willie Gone, Gethin to Win?

Last Saturday marked possibly our favourite time of the year, when X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing both start broadcasting at exactly the same time and we have to keep flicking backwards and forwards between the two, weeping slightly.

But enough about us, because Willie Thorne's been kicked out of Strictly Come Dancing after just two short dances. Not exactly a surprise, because gambling-addicted former snooker players have never exactly been known for their grace, but on Saturday's Strictly Come Dancing Willie Thorne outdid himself, mainly by dancing a tango to Obertura while pulling a face exactly like a man getting progressively angrier and angrier at himself for being constipated. And then the Strictly Come Dancing judges called him a "polar bear" and a "walrus" for it, with was totally unfair, because at least those animals have been known to be entertaining.

Now that Willie Thorne is out of Strictly Come Dancing, who'll win? Here are the Strictly Come Dancing betting odds for Gabby Logan, Gethin Jones, Penny Lancaster, Kenny Logan, Matt Di Angelo and Kate Garraway, with betting odds coming from Paddy Power…

Gabby Logan - On last week's Strictly Come Dancing, Gabby Logan was the fourth-placed women, a fact she reportedly responded to by throwing a hissy fit so large she made Elton John look like Gandhi. So on Saturday's Strictly Come Dancing, Gabby made it clear to everyone how angry she was. Not only did she dance the jive to the highly symbolic Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting, but she also dressed up in the chav uniform of hoop earrings and scraped-back hair, and did the splits at the end, sending a message to the judges that if she's prepared to do that to her own genitals, imagine what she'd do to them if she got a bad score. It worked too - the Strictly Come Dancing judges told her "Cartwheel and kicks. I think you're a star!" Remember kids, violent threats work! SCORE - 31; Current Strictly Come Dancing betting odds - 5/1

Gethin Jones - Gethin's first try-out on Strictly Come Dancing was characterised by a sort of crippling fear of intimacy that wrecked his first performance. Since his second Strictly Come Dancing routine was a Tango to a Spandau Ballet song, physical contact was always going to be an inevitability, and Gethin Jones appeared to get round his fear by constantly doing an impression of a vampire with food poisoning throughout. And that seemed to do the trick, with the Strictly Come Dancing judges noticing his improvement: "I'm going to call you gorgeous Gethin! You are far better than I expected!" SCORE - 29; Current Strictly Come Dancing betting odds - 8/1

Penny Lancaster - After last week's Strictly Come Dancing performance saw Penny Lancaster emerge as a potential winner. Could Penny consolidate that early success for a second week running? Could she bollocks. It didn't help that her jive was to Don't Stop Me Now, a song with a beginning so slow that the first third of her routine was spent waggling her arms about like a listless end of the pier magician's assistant. And it didn't go down well with the Strictly Come Dancing judges either, who told her that she was "Gangly, lumpy, laboured… you're leggy and lazy." There's only one thing that Penny Lancaster can do to right this for next week - saw her shins off. We're looking forward to helping if needs be. SCORE - 25; Current Strictly Come Dancing betting odds - 6/1

Kenny Logan - During his first Strictly Come Dancing routine a fortnight ago, Kenny Logan showed he had all the graceful poise of an obese hospital patient staggering to the toilet at midnight. But since he's embroiled in a fierce competition with his fellow Strictly Come Dancer wife Gabby Logan, Kenny threw himself into his tango to Call Me with all the determination of a man who doesn't want his wife to be better at ballroom dancing than he is. And such was his determination that midway through his routine we thought that Kenny was going to throw his partner through a skylight, roar "HULK SMAAASH!" into a camera and burst through the wall into the night. Sadly he didn't, which is a shame because the Strictly Come Dancing judges might have reacted in a less disgusted way if he had: "You went for it like Conan the Barbarian!" they sneered. SCORE - 25; Current Strictly Come Dancing betting odds - 50/1

Matt Di Angelo - By christ, Matt Di Angelo fancies himself, doesn't he? He fancies himself so much that if Strictly Come Dancing was called Strictly Come Masturbating Into A Mirror And Muttering Your Own Name then he'd easily walk it. But, as it stands, not even wearing an outfit that included a salmon vest could stop the self love pouring out of Matt during his Strictly Come Dancing jive to Shake, Rattle And Roll. Funny thing is, that seems to be what the Strictly Come Dancing judges wanted: "Kicks, flicks, pivots – let me let you into a secret Matt, don't lose it because you could be a star!" And it's true, since we want to both kick and flick Matt Di Angelo, although the pivot bit sounds a little rude. SCORE - 30; Strictly Come Dancing betting odds - 6/1

Kate Garraway - Thanks to her ruptured leg-bladder - or whatever, we're not doctors - Kate Garraway is still a few weeks behind her fellow Strictly Come Dancing competitors, and it shows. Poor old Kate's still at the point where she can't look at herself in a spangly top without screaming "I'm a monster!" at anyone who'll listen. This obviously affected her tango to They which, instead of being the fiery dance of passion, looked like a big-chinned man taking his new robot out for a walk. The Strictly Come Dancing judges obviously expected more from a newsreader with such stupendous breasts, because they told her "It was distant and vacant – you've got to put emotion in it," which seems a bit harsh because if our day jobs involved walking up at 2am and then interviewing council estate mothers about child abuse then we'd probably be distant and vacant too. SCORE - 19; Strictly Come Dancing betting odds - 100/1

Tomorrow - Strictly Come Dancing betting odds for Dominic Littlewood, Letitia Dean, John Barnes, Alesha Dixon and Kelly Brook! 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.