X Factor Betting Odds: Ben Mills Out, Who’ll Win?

Can you feel the excitement? Can you? We're so excited we can hardly move - X Factor is almost over for another year! No, we mean it's because the X Factor final is less than a week away, but it'll take place without Bellowing Ben Mills.

Since X Factor started, Ben Mills has received by far the least amount of supportive comments from hecklerspray readers. Why was this? We think we've got it down to two things: 1) He's got a twat's haircut and 2) he sneers like a paedophile when he sings. However, it might equally have something to do with the way that Ben refused to be as cynically manipulative as Leona and Ray. Where Ray started weeping because he loves Liverpool and Leona started weeping because she's got a dead cousin, Ben just squeaked out a weedy little "My Mum likes this song," chucked out a rendition of I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For so completely uneventful that it could have feasibly been performed by The MacDonald Brothers, and got promptly voted off X Factor as a result. Where are we supposed to go when we want to hear long-haired fools shouting songs like they're trying to get the moon's attention? Oh, that's right - we never wanted to hear that in the first place.

But who's going to win X Factor on Saturday? Stay tuned for Leona's betting odds tomorrow, but for now here are the X Factor betting odds for Ray Quinn…

Ray Quinn - Ray has always boasted that the X Factor judges could throw anything at him and he'd deal with it. Skipping the obvious joke that we'd like to see a hundredweight of drawing pins thrown at his stupid smug face at a million miles an hour just to wipe his ridiculous pretend-sincere grin off it, we think that Ray meant he'd deal with anything so long as it's more than 50 years old and shamelessly manipulative, because that's all his X Factor performances seem to consist of.

Ray's first song, Smile, was a horrible mix of bog-standard Westlife (a big keychange signified by the traditional stool-stand) and those terrible Sunday afternoon musicals about sailors in New York on shore leave, but Ray's second X Factor song absolutely took the cocking biscuit. It was You'll Never Walk Alone, aka Vote For Me Liverpool, Everyone Else Thinks I'm A Smug Tosser. That in itself was bad enough, but during the song Ray smashed through so many different fake emotions we actually thought he was having a disturbing nervous breakdown. It was all there; the fake overawed headshake during the quiet beginning and the (probably) less fake despotic dictator-style strutting during the loud second-half. And then came Ray Quinn's masterstroke - sensing that there's nothing menopausal old women like more that a sobbing infant they can clutch to the bosom, Ray burst into tears. And he's in the fucking X Factor final because of it. Kill us now. Current X Factor betting odds - 3/1

Tomorrow - the X Factor betting odds for Leona Lewis…