X Factor Betting Odds: Andy Williams Out, Who’ll Win?

It was never going to be a surprise when Andy Williams - the dim-looking nondescript Welsh boy who couldn’t carry a tune in a tune-sized rucksack - was knocked out of X Factor, which is why we’re not exactly surprised right now.

Because, in an X Factor career so dull that we half-expected his ‘best bits’ package to be one millisecond long, Andy Williams’ performance of Chasing Cars on Saturday stood out as especially weak. Out of time, out of tune, dead-eyed and sung with a face that looked like it was being operated by the animatronic team from Jurassic Park, it seemed a lot like Andy Williams was just forming noises with his mouth without understanding that he was saying actual words. Andy’s X Factor elimination seemed more like a mercy killing, especially since his T-shirt had the word ‘ROCK’ embroidered on it. We’re guessing Primark was out of ‘Insipid’ shirts.

But now Andy Williams has been put out of his misery, who’s going to win X Factor? Here are the X Factor betting odds to win for Alisha Bennett and Beverley Trottman, with help from Paddy Power…

Alisha Bennett - What we like best about Alisha Bennett is the incredibly low standard she sets for herself - case in point, on Saturday’s X Factor Alisha was over the moon simply because she wasn’t utterly dreadful for once. That’s not to say that Alisha was good - that’s too big a step - but her rendition of Girl Put Your Records On was sort of OK in a pedestrian way, like a cheese sandwich or a plastic cup of warm water. Still, though, Alisha lives to sing another round, and we’re pinning that mostly on the way she burst into tears as soon as it was over. Maybe Alisha wept because girls putting records on has a deep emotional resonance with her, or maybe it was the way someone made her wear a sparkly beret and a weightlifting belt for the performance, but she’s through to next week’s X Factor because of it, and that’s all the opinion we can muster on the matter. Current X Factor betting odds - 25/1

Beverley Trottman - We knew it. It’s clear to the whole wide world that Beverley Trottman has a fine set of pipes on her, but she’s as likely to win X Factor as Simon Cowell is of ever working out that the top half of his shirts have buttons. On Saturday’s X Factor our point was proved when Beverley found herself in the final two sing-off. Although her performance was technically very good, it happened to be to You’re Beautiful - and so strong are the negative implications of singing a James Blunt song that she may as well have picked a song called I’ll Stomp On All Your Pets If You Vote For Me. Also, if the rest of the X Factor audience is like us, the only way Beverley Trottman would have got votes after Saturday’s wince-inducing tearful “Why didn’t mummy want me?” VT package is if there was a voting option to duck her like a witch. Current X Factor betting odds - 14/1

Tomorrow - the X Factor betting odds for Leon Jackson, Same Difference and Hope. 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 X Factor betting odds page to see the latest, and best, betting odds.