All said, Saturday’s X Factor Love Songs Night was a great success; although if we’re honest, compared to the X Factor Disco Night an X Factor Dissonant Avant-Rock Night would be a success, too.
And that means that this Saturday X Factor is treating us to a Best Of British show where, dressed up as an assortment of jolly red-faced butchers, cricketers and wooden-toothed Victorian prostitutes, the X Factor hopefuls will belt out a selection of songs like Roll Out The Barrel, Doing The Lambeth Walk, My Old Man’s A Dustman, I’ve Got A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts and the theme-tune to Oh, Doctor Beeching! by Su Pollard. Either that or they’ll all sing You’re Beautiful with a quiet look of desperation in their eyes. Let’s wait and see.
But who’s going to win X Factor this year? Here are the X Factor betting odds for Niki Evans and Rhydian Roberts, with help from Paddy Power…
Niki Evans – As part of Saturday’s ‘X Factor contestants go home’ shtick, Niki Evans got to go back to the school where she was a dinnerlady in an attempt to show the world that actually she’s getting a little bit up herself. After all, Niki is second-favourite to win X Factor, and look what heady careers the other X Factor silver medallists have achieved, like, um, that binman bloke and, er, the others. But back to Niki Evans’ X Factor performance of The Power Of Love on Saturday. Yes, it was brave of her to sing the start of the song with no accompaniment and, yes, Niki managed to get it pitch-perfect – at least up until the final note when she sounded like she’d trod on a nail – but once again it was a Niki Evans X Factor performance rooted so firmly in the 1980s that she may as well be dressed up as a titting Rubik’s Cube. We’d love Niki to try her hand at something just a little bit more modern – like, say, an MC Hammer song or the theme-tune to failed supernatural 1992 Karl Howman sitcom Mulberry. Current X Factor betting odds – 11/2
Rhydian Roberts – We see a pattern emerging here; one week Rhydian Roberts will deliver a stock-still, sensible, heartfelt ballad and everyone will like him, and then the next he’ll dress up as a turd and sing something so campy that everyone hates him for it. Therefore, after singing Go West two weeks ago, on Saturday’s X Factor Rhydian got to sing Somewhere with only the occasional sincerity-affirming fist-clench as choreography. True, Rhydian boomed the song out like there was no tomorrow and people seemed to like it – especially Dannii Minogue, who was reduced to tears by the beauty of watching a funny-looking blonde bloke shouting a Barbara Streisand song – but those people are wrong. The whole thing reminded us of Harry Secombe standing on top of some godforsaken hill bellowing Abide With Me during a particularly dull episode of Highway from 1987. Don’t worry, though – if our pattern theory holds up then on next week’s X Factor Rhydian will be performing Rock Me Amadeus while dressed up as Kure Kure Takora. Current X Factor betting odds – 2/7
Tomorrow: I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here betting odds. 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.
daniel curran says
you were well good nikki your my hero