Bad news for fans of pretty girls wigging about in their pants – Hope are the latest act to be ejected from X Factor, something that means the only female eye candy left on X Factor comes in the form of a self-satisfied school dinnerlady.

That’s not to say that Hope didn’t deserve to be booted out of X Factor, though – they absolutely did, thanks to a lukewarm performance of 2 Become 1 and a version of We Will Rock You that served only as an excuse for each member of Hope to go “WooooahohhAHHHOOOOH!” in turn. But don’t worry, Hope fans – the group promises that it will absolutely stay together forever now, which will at least start a medium-sized bidding war between a handful of subscription-based soft-pornography digital TV channels if nothing else.

But now that Hope are out of X Factor, who’s going to win? Here are the X Factor betting odds – for Same Difference and Niki Evans – with help from Paddy Power…