X Factor Betting Odds: Beverley Trottman To Win?

Perhaps this says more about our state of mind than the show itself, but we’re only three weeks in and this season of X Factor is starting to seem like the most controversial one yet.

We’ve seen Sharon Osbourne get her knickers in a twist and leave X Factor only to squirm back again the following week, we’ve seen Emily Nakanda hurl a schoolgirl against a brick wall by her hair and get kicked off X Factor - the big question is what happens next. Will Louis Walsh be asked to leave X Factor for stabbing Simon Cowell in the neck with a biro while shouting “Don’t tell me what to do!”? Will Same Difference be removed from X Factor for having it off with each other? Will Rhydian stare directly into the camera and impart an ancient curse that will turn X Factor’s audience into zombie soldiers who follow his every word? Probably the last one, we’d imagine.

But who’ll win X Factor? Here are the X Factor betting odds for Beverley Trottman, Leon Jackson and Hope, with betting odds from Paddy Power…

Beverley Trottman - Each year on X Factor there’s an older female contestant who regularly sings the competition into dust but clearly doesn’t stand a hope of winning the show, and that’s the case with Beverley Trottman, whose X Factor version of Feeling Good was confident, strong and electrifying, yet completely forgettable the instant it was over. Don’t ask us why, it’s utterly unexplainable. Still, as everyone is so keen on pointing out, X Factor is important to Beverley Trottman because at the moment she’s ‘just’ a primary school teacher, but X Factor is allowing her to be the woman she’s always dreamt of being - a peripheral singer on a teatime ITV talent show for eight weeks before she’s inevitably voted off and goes back to being a primary school teacher, albeit a slightly more embittered one. Current X Factor betting odds - 10/1

Leon Jackson - You know what we’re getting sick of? Listening to Leon Jackson do his “I’m just an ordinary wee lad from Scotland” shtick on his X Factor VT package week after week after week. Because, you know, we thought X Factor was all about finding a star, not a terrified-looking ordinary wee lad from Scotland who cries a lot. Anyway, Leon’s X Factor performance of Fly Me To The Moon on Saturday was uniformly called his best yet by the X Factor judges, possibly because he wasn’t pulling a face that suggested he could see a gang of masked men beat his mother to death while he was singing it. Even though it was more suited to a SAGA cruise ship cabaret night than a prime-time TV show, and featured a dance that looked like he was being attacked by a swarm of invisible bees, in truth it was Leon’s best routine. Which means that on next week’s X Factor we can be treated to Leon Jackson the obnoxious egomaniac. Yay. Current X Factor betting odds - 7/1

Hope - Although they’re clearly being pushed by Simon Cowell as potential X Factor winners, on Saturday Hope found themselves in the bottom two sing-off. But why? Here’s what we’ve got so far - 1) Hope’s X Factor song was Hanky Panky, possibly one of Madonna’s least-liked singles. 2) Due to what we assume was a sound-mixing cock-up, Hope were completely swamped by the big band during their X Factor performance. 3) Instead of writhing about in their knickers like in previous shows, this time Hope were all dressed as single mother Chatham schoolgirls. 4) Hope ran over and kissed Simon Cowell in the middle of their song, an act so stomach-turning they may as well performed vivisection on Socks the Blue Peter cat instead. To stay a part of X Factor, Hope need to remember what they’re good at - performing nearly-nude versions of the audio track to Butt Sluts 5. Current X Factor betting odds - 5/1

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.