X Factor Betting Odds: Eton Road & Ben Mills
On Saturday's X Factor, the 'special musical guests' were Westlife, which meant that the X Factor theme was either going to be Number Ones or Shitawful Lowest Common Denominator Boyband Dirge.
And, to everyone's endless gratitude, the X Factor production staff went for Number Ones – a theme which meant that the remaining X Factor contestants could sing Shaddap You Face, Star Trekkin' and Let's Party by Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers but not I Want You Back, God Only Knows or Out Of Your Mind by True Steppers and Dane Bowers (featuring Victoria Beckham). What a tragic injustice – let's hope that next week's X Factor goes some way to restoring the balance with its Songs About Things That Are Generally Quite Nice theme.
Anyway, who's going to win X Factor this year? These two? Here are the X Factor betting odds for Eton Road and Ben Mills…
Eton Road – Last week we wondered whether Eton Road were being genuinely inept or if they were pulling off one of the most nuanced pieces of subversive performance art in history. And thanks to their performance on Saturday's X Factor, we finally realised – it wasn't a stunt, Eton Road really are that fucking dreadful. Despite having their campness turned up to a million by Louis Walsh, their X Factor version of I Don't Feel Like Dancing was a genuine car crash of a spectacle. Every single member of Eton Road sang the song in a different key while waving their arms about like they were trying to notify a distant old lady that she was about to be mowed down by a speeding juggernaut. Worst of all – as usual – was the Botoxy Eunuch, who doesn't seem to realise that he turns Eton Road into a laughing stock each time he screeches and squeals like a schoolgirl on helium running through a corridor full of spiderwebs. It was awful and, by ending up in the X Factor sing-off, the entire country seemed to agree with us. Still, though, the handful of fans that Eton Road have left won't have long until the release of their first album, Eton Road Do A Bunch Of Mental High-Pitched Whale Noises Over Some Songs You Thought You Once Liked. Current X Factor betting odds – 7/1
Ben Mills – All this week there'd been a lot of talk about Ben Mills having such a sore throat that he'd be hardly able to talk on Saturday's X Factor, let alone sing. Not that we we're able to tell by his X Factor performance of With A Little Help From My Friends, though – Ben roared his way through it in the same preposterously overblown way as usual, almost as if it should have been performed in the Grand Canyon in a tornado to a herd of solemnly overawed coyotes. As if you needed telling, Ben sang the Joe Cocker version of With A Little Help From My Friends while hammering away on a piano, which was a shame because we were rather hoping we'd see him tackle the "dump-a-dump-a-dump" Ringo Starr version while dressed up in a gay satin band leader's outfit. It'd be interesting to see Ben Mills do something other than scream every song he's given like the world's angriest PE teacher, but we get the feeling that's something we'll never get to witness. Current X Factor betting odds – 2/1
Tomorrow – a Leona X Factor betting odds special…

Ha ha; I love the way you write your Xfactor blogs. They are a highlight of my day. Don’t worry it’s, not ‘the’ highlight, I do lots of other interesting stuff too, like watch Deal or No Deal and wonder how mad Noel Edmond really is.
ETON ROAD I LOVEE UU
- david ur hotttt!
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gd luck with ur record deal!
aww ur out now but Ben is rubbish U R THE BEST U SHOULD NOT OF GONE OUT :>( waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (crying) Antony i want to meet you sooooooo much!!!!!
eton road i love u so much i cant beleive u was voed out david ur so hot i wanna meet
u sooooooooo much and james is to but i love u david i wanted ben to go out not u i
adore u and i wanna meet u david and james heres my number hope u get back to me
07796034971 i cant wait 4 louis to get u a recordin contract coz once u get ur album out
i am goin 2 buy it love u hunnies love jess from bristol age 17 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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