X Factor Betting Odds: Andy Williams To Win?

One of the main reasons we’re so happy that X Factor is back is because the hokey unconvincing X Factor theme nights are back, which meant that on Saturday everyone had to sing a song from the movies.

This is because Celine Dion was the special X Factor guest on Saturday and, since she sang the song from Titanic, Songs From The Movies was probably a slightly politer X Factor theme than Really Crap Songs That Only Wankers Like Which Are Sung By People Who Deserve To Be Drowned, the only other theme that Celine Dion fits into. Not that it matters, though - with a couple of exceptions, the X Factor contestants’ songs only managed to be Song From The Movies so long as you can count ’second song played in the end credits after everyone has gone home’ as a song from the movie. OK, we’ll admit that we’re just bitter because Rhydian didn’t sing the overdose theme from Requiem For A Dream.

Who’ll win X Factor? Here are the X Factor betting odds for Beverley Trottman, Andy Williams, Leon Jackson and Futureproof, with betting odds from Paddy Power…

Beverley Trottman - Now that ITV seems to have decided that each episode of X Factor should be a million hours long, it’s inevitable that some singers won’t stick in the memory as well as others, and that’s the case with Beverley Trottman. Memorable last week for the silly wig she wore during I Will Survive, this week saw Beverley ditch the wig and continue her quest to perform all the divorcee karaoke classics in the world with a rendition of I Have Nothing that was too boring to even mention here. Beverley, remember, is a teacher by vocation, and we’re not surprised she’s so desperate to leave the profession if her children’s ‘I Love U Mummy’ T-shirts are anything to go by. How could she possibly be a decent teacher if she can’t teach her own bloody children to spell the word ‘you’? Current X Factor betting odds - 14/1

Andy Williams - Andy Williams has that rare mix of character traits that makes him vastly smug and impossibly anonymous at the same time. And this manifested itself on Saturday’s X Factor in his performance of Stayin’ Alive. Andy - a man who looks like he’d need a six-week training course to teach him what cutlery is for - for some reason decided to not just try singing the most iconic song from a 15-times platinum album, but to sing it in a series of mid-level mumbles and listless grunts. A few self-conscious dance moves aside, Andy’s Stayin’ Alive was so personality-free that it may as well have been sung by a photograph of some grey wallpaper and we’re genuinely surprised that Andy wasn’t shortlisted for X Factor elimination. Current X Factor betting odds - 12/1

Leon Jackson - Leon’s first X Factor performance was so mind-bogglingly awful that we’re not even sure it was music - so, in grand X Factor tradition, Saturday’s show saw Leon ’stripping it back’ for his performance of Home. No gimmicks, no lurching time signatures, no skronk - just Leon Jackson meekly stumbling around a stage singing a dreary ballad like he’d just wet himself. To be fair, though, Leon’s X Factor performance this week was better than last week, but that’s partly because he’d set the bar so low that a three-minute atonal shriek would have probably been better. Worrying, though, X Factor viewers seem to be warming to Leon’s brand of irritating vulnerability already, which means that we could be in for a few months of this awfulness. Current X Factor betting odds - 10/1

Futureproof - Futureproof’s X Factor debut was a passable attempt at She’s The One that got praise from the judges and pushed them up to second-favourites to win as far as these X Factor betting odds go. But that wasn’t enough for Simon Cowell, who wanted to reboot Futureproof and work them hard and make them better than ever. In short, he wanted to turn Futureproof into Robson And Jerome. And, if that was his mission, he succeeded. After wafting out out a leaden version of If You Don’t Know Me By Now, Futureproof are now fourth-favourites to win X Factor and damn near almost put us into a coma. Nice work Mr Cowell. Current X Factor betting odds - 4/1

Tomorrow - X Factor betting odds for Hope, Rhydian Roberts and Niki Evans. 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.