X Factor Betting Odds: Futureproof Gone, Who’ll Win?

So Simon Cowell’s big X Factor ruse of putting together manufactured groups and telling the world how they’ll probably win X Factor has backfired - on Saturday his boyband Futureproof were eliminated from the show.

And if that wasn’t bad enough, Simon Cowell had to choose whether to eliminate Futureproof or his girlband Hope, because they were both placed in X Factor’s bottom two. We’ll deal with Hope in the days to come, but nobody can really be surprised that Futureproof were knocked out of X Factor - their dull, weedy rendition of Can’t Take My Eyes Off You was hopelessly overpowered by the live band accompanying them and their much-discussed dance routine was a joke. But at least now they’re out of X Factor, Futureproof can return to what they look like they do best - hanging out on the top deck of buses throwing open cans of cider at terrified pensioners.

But now that Futureproof are no longer a part of X Factor, who’s going to win? Here’s the first part of this week’s X Factor betting odds - for Alisha Bennett, Andy Williams and Same Difference - with help as ever from Paddy Power…

Alisha Bennett - Thanks to young Emily Nakanda coming over all Macho Man Randy Savage on the internet and getting kicked off X Factor, Alisha Bennett finds herself as the only 14-24 girl left on the show, and since she was in X Factor’s final two for the first two weeks running, the pressure on her to sing Valerie well enough to stay on the show must have been huge. You suspect that if he was in the same position, Leon may well have actually soiled himself onstage. And yet Alisha did a surprisingly decent job of it, looking like a popstar for the first time and sailing through the elimination process unharmed. We’re pleased for Alisha - not because we want her to do well but because it means that Alisha’s X Factor VT next week won’t just feature her crying a lot because nobody likes her. The following week once she’s been in the bottom two again, sure, but let’s just be thankful for next week’s breather. Current X Factor betting odds - 33/1

Andy Williams - Once again, we’re stunned that Andy Williams wasn’t even in the X Factor bottom two on Saturday, because his rendition of This Guy’s In Love With You tanked so badly we can hardly describe it. Poor old Andy - a man so dim-looking that we wouldn’t be surprised if McDonalds started writing ‘Contents Hot’ on their drinks just to stop him dipping his penis into cups of coffee all the time - started performing the song alone at a table for one, possibly because it didn’t take long for the girl to work out that this guy’s probably only in love with himself. Also, Andy’s X Factor performance taught us that whenever he’s backed by a live 27-piece orchestra, whatever he sings will sound like the insane mutterings of a drunkard at 4am. Please just get rid of him next week. Current X Factor betting odds - 25/1

Same Difference - The X Factor Big Band night is a chance for the performers to pay homage to some of the most effortlessly cool songs from a time when music was more pure, so that’s why on Saturday Same Difference decided to sing that old standard from Frank Sinatra’s seminal In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning album, Reach For The Stars by S Club 7. And, if the song had been performed by a buck-toothed six year old girl in pigtails, chances are it would have been the most adorable spectacle of the night. But since it was actually performed by two slightly incesty adult siblings who model themselves on Ned Flanders, the result was so creepy that we found ourselves clawing at our own skin by the second verse. The only thing we can attribute to Same Difference scraping through the X Factor elimination process was because of their sobbing “I’m a victim of bullying” VT package, despite the fact that even the most pitiful victim of bullying could probably find something to bully Same Difference about. Current X Factor betting odds - 14/1

Tomorrow - the X Factor betting odds for Beverley Trottman, Leon Jackson and Hope. 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.