X Factor Betting Odds: Beverley Trottman Out, Who’ll Win?

Beverley Trottman - the schoolteacher with the voice loud enough to knock the moon out of orbit - has become the latest victim of the X Factor axe, and for once it wasn’t the X Factor judges who binned her; it was the whole wide world.

Because of a judging deadlock, the X Factor elimination went to the public vote, and it turns out that hardly anyone voted for Beverley Trottman. Perhaps it’s for the best - Beverley never stood a fart’s chance of winning X Factor at the best of times, and her performance on Saturday did nothing to prove otherwise. Claiming that she was singing it for all the kids at her school, Beverley performed a new version of divorcee classic Without You that included up to 18 different key changes, the last four of which were only audible to bats and dolphins. Anyway it’s just as well that Beverley Trottman can’t live if living is without her pupils, because she’ll be back in the classroom any day now, surely.

So now that Beverley Trottman is out of X Factor, who’ll win? Here are the X Factor betting odds for Hope, Same Difference and Leon Jackson, with help from Paddy Power…

Hope - Hope were supposed to win X Factor from the start, but now it seems as if the only way they could be any less popular with the public is if they dressed as up Steve McClaren and sang the Croatian national anthem. Coming off the back of last week’s near-elimination from X Factor, Hope went for a completely different change of tactic on Saturday - they dressed in black and got all miserable to a Christina Aguilera song. Well, we say ‘they’ but actually it was all Phoebe again, leaving the rest of Hope to look bored and occasionally make intermittent vowel sounds. And yet Hope almost got voted off X Factor again. So what can Hope do to win the public over again? They can let other members sing, for a start, and go back to only wearing their bras and knickers again. Honestly, the bra and knicker aspect of Hope’s X Factor comeback campaign can’t be overestimated. Current X Factor betting odds - 33/1

Same Difference - Since Saturday’s X Factor was Love Song Night, Same Difference had to be a bit careful; after all, there’s nothing like implied incest to win a crowd over, is there? Eventually, Same Difference plumped for Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now - not so much a love song as a mutual declaration of overbearing ambition. But, hey, by singing it Same Difference got to drop the majorette dancers and giant teddy bears and attempt to show the world that they were capable of maturity. Which they obviously aren’t, by the way - during the song you could see the pair of them straining to hold back their wacky children’s entertainer facial expressions, causing them to involuntarily look as if they were either deeply constipated or mocking the disabled. And yet Same Difference still got through to the final five X Factor acts. It’s starting to look like a poisoned water supply might be the only way to get rid of them. Current X Factor betting odds - 8/1

Leon Jackson - Instead of actually rehearsing for their songs last week, the X Factor contestants all got to go home, which meant that Leon Jackson a) went to his old clothes shop and cried and b) went to see his Mum and cried. But crying all the time seems to be doing the trick, because despite being transparently awful, Leon Jackson still hasn’t been voted out of X Factor. And God knows he deserves to be after Saturday’s performance of You Don’t Know Me; a swingy piece of cruise-ship fluff performed in the style of a sozzled nightclub entertainer at 3am on a rainy Tuesday night. However, since his X Factor song was quite slow, Leon Jackson didn’t get the opportunity to show off any more of his violent electrocution house dance moves, a small mercy that we’ll be forever indebted to him for. But, as the X Factor judges are constantly shoving down our throats, Leon keeps improving. That means now he’s just normally dreadful instead of suicide-inducingly dreadful, in case you needed the explanation. Current X Factor betting odds - 8/1

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