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X Factor Betting Odds: Niki Evans Gone, Who’ll Win The Final?

September 16th, 2008 By Stuart Heritage

How wrong were we? Niki Evans – the singer who we were convinced would come second in this year’s X Factor – actually ended up coming fourth in this year’s X Factor; the same as The MacDonald Brothers did last year, the lucky cow.

In hindsight, though, it was no surprise that Niki Evans got voted off X Factor so early. No matter how proficient they are, older ladies never make it to the X Factor final – especially ones like Niki, who think that they can get away with opening shows by murmuring out dreary Eva Cassidy covers and then get all indignant because nobody seems to like it much. Still, at least now that Niki Evans has been eliminated from X Factor the show’s prop department can put away those horrible black candlesticks that appear to have been stolen from the set of a 1970s low-budget European movie about sexy vampires.

But without Niki Evans in it, who’ll win the X Factor final on Saturday? Here’s part one of this week’s X Factor betting odds – for Same Difference and Leon Jackson – with help from Paddy Power…

X Factor Betting Odds: Hope Gone, Who’ll Win?

August 5th, 2012 By Stuart Heritage

Bad news for fans of pretty girls wigging about in their pants – Hope are the latest act to be ejected from X Factor, something that means the only female eye candy left on X Factor comes in the form of a self-satisfied school dinnerlady.

That’s not to say that Hope didn’t deserve to be booted out of X Factor, though – they absolutely did, thanks to a lukewarm performance of 2 Become 1 and a version of We Will Rock You that served only as an excuse for each member of Hope to go “WooooahohhAHHHOOOOH!” in turn. But don’t worry, Hope fans – the group promises that it will absolutely stay together forever now, which will at least start a medium-sized bidding war between a handful of subscription-based soft-pornography digital TV channels if nothing else.

But now that Hope are out of X Factor, who’s going to win? Here are the X Factor betting odds – for Same Difference and Niki Evans – with help from Paddy Power…

X Factor Betting Odds: Can Niki Evans Win?

March 25th, 2009 By Stuart Heritage

All said, Saturday’s X Factor Love Songs Night was a great success; although if we’re honest, compared to the X Factor Disco Night an X Factor Dissonant Avant-Rock Night would be a success, too.

And that means that this Saturday X Factor is treating us to a Best Of British show where, dressed up as an assortment of jolly red-faced butchers, cricketers and wooden-toothed Victorian prostitutes, the X Factor hopefuls will belt out a selection of songs like Roll Out The Barrel, Doing The Lambeth Walk, My Old Man’s A Dustman, I’ve Got A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts and the theme-tune to Oh, Doctor Beeching! by Su Pollard. Either that or they’ll all sing You’re Beautiful with a quiet look of desperation in their eyes. Let’s wait and see.

But who’s going to win X Factor this year? Here are the X Factor betting odds for Niki Evans and Rhydian Roberts, with help from Paddy Power…

X Factor Betting Odds: Rhydian Roberts To Win?

August 5th, 2012 By Stuart Heritage

We’ve been researching X Factor a lot lately, and we’ve discovered one aspect of the show that hasn’t gained a single word of coverage – Louis Walsh’s hair.

We can’t be the only ones who have noticed Louis Walsh’s X Factor hair, can we? With each week of X Factor that passes, it gets a little bit less grey and a little bit more fluffy. It’s true – for the first 20 minutes of Saturday’s X Factor we were honestly convinced that Louis Walsh was either wearing a cossack’s hat or had a rabbit perched on top of his head. We think it’s because this year Simon Cowell seems determined to remind Louis of how old-fashioned he is at every opportunity, and Louis is trying to young his hair up a bit more each week as a result. At this rate he’ll have a full-on emo fringe by Christmas. Let’s make that happen, people.

But who’ll win X Factor? Here are the X Factor betting odds for Niki Evans and Rhydian Roberts, with help from Paddy Power…

X Factor Betting Odds: Niki Evans To Win?

August 5th, 2012 By Stuart Heritage

We honestly can’t thing of a more historic tradition than X Factor Big Band night, but that might be because we recently hit our head quite hard. Seriously, we’re bleeding a lot.

Anyway, X Factor Big Band night took place on Saturday and gave the remaining X Factor competitors the chance to get their first taste of performing in front of a huge live band. Judging by Saturday’s X Factor it also gave them the chance to mumble inaudibly because someone hadn’t realised how loud all those trumpets would be, but that was probably less deliberate. The X Factor Big Band night can make or break singers – this year it broke Futureproof but last year it made Ray Quinn, but that’s something the X Factor production team will pay for in the afterlife.

Who’ll win X Factor this year? Here are the X Factor betting odds for Niki Evans and Rhydian Roberts, with help from Paddy Power…

X Factor Betting Odds: Rhydian To Win? Really?

August 5th, 2012 By Stuart Heritage

X Factor enters its third week of live finals on Saturday, and it’ll need to pull out all the stops to compete with the thousands of damp, miserable firework displays going on up and down the country at the same time.

Actually, who are we kidding? If there’s one thing that X Factor is world class at, it’s disappointing pyrotechnics – whether it’s Sharon Osbourne flouncing off the show and then sheepishly coming back again three seconds later, the painfully deliberate bickering between the other X Factor judges or the singers themselves, who this year all seem to have been pulled from the back row of a nativity play run by a specialist school for the hopelessly untalented. X Factor is the televisual equivalent of watching a boy try to write his name in the air with a sparkler, but without the exciting but at the end where he badly burns his hand. And, tragically, we’re hooked already.

Here’s the last of this week’s X Factor betting odds to win – for Hope, Rhydian Roberts and Niki Evans – with help from Paddy Power…