X Factor Betting Odds: Leon Jackson To Win?

So it looks like X Factor 2007 is going to be more about how much the judges can squeal abuse at each other than how well any of the contestants can sing, thanks to Sharon Osbourne flouncing around in a tizzy on Saturday night.

But, really, who can blame her? Personally we think that Sharon Osbourne only started frothing around like a mad lord because she knew X Factor would have been cripplingly substandard without it. We blame the lack of a celebrity guest for this - X Factor is always much better when it pays a famous singer to look anguished because 12 different numpties have mangled their most famous songs in 12 different buttock-clenching ways. Sure, Leona Lewis was last week’s X Factor celebrity guest, but making the contestants perform 12 different versions of Bleeding Love would have sent even the most loyal X Factor viewer barmy. Just Leona’s version alone is driving us a bit mental, and we’ve only heard it twice.

Anyway, here are the X Factor betting odds for Leon Jackson, Andy Williams, Daniel De Bourg and Rhydian Roberts, with betting odds from Paddy Power…

Leon Jackson - Leon Jackson is the X Factor who can’t stop crying. He cried throughout auditions, he cried throughout dance training, he cried throughout rehearsals and if there’s any justice in the world he’ll cry himself into ash this week because his X Factor performance of Money Can’t Buy Me Love was dire. Indescribably dire. Done in a bewildering Las Vegas swing-style, Leon Jackson’s interpretation of the song lurched between tempos and tunes and pitches so alarmingly that the CIA might want to think about using a recording of it to break terror suspects in the future. And not even Leon’s personality could save him either - staring and sweating like someone had a gun to his head, Leon’s dance routine just ended up making him look like a current was intermittently passing through his body. On the plus side, though, the only way X Factor can get any worse for Leon Jackson is if he shits in a puppy’s eye onstage next week. Current X Factor betting odds - 8/1

Andy Williams - We watched X Factor on Saturday, which means we must have seen Andy Williams perform I Don’t Want To Talk About It. And yet we’ll be buggered if we can remember a single thing about it. Perhaps our mind drifted off and we started thinking about something more interesting, like duck eggs or hammocks or fungus. But Andy Williams’ X Factor routine was so utterly anonymous that we honestly can’t recall a single thing about it. Perhaps next week Andy should do something about this by setting his face on fire midway through his performance. Or, you know, growing some personality. Current X Factor betting odds - 8/1

Daniel De Bourg - And the same goes for Daniel De Bourg. As much as Daniel wants to gun for X Factor’s tearful emotion vote with his ‘I’m just doing this for my son’ shtick, he’s going to need to try much harder if he wants to succeed. On Saturday Daniel performed Heaven by Bryan Adams because he said it reminded him of his parents. And how did Daniel conduct the emotions the the song clearly stirred up? By singing with all the verve of an overgrown boyband member who’s a bit scared because he lost his bandmates in a supermarket and can’t find them. As soon as Daniel realises that a half-grown straggly beard isn’t a very good charisma substitute, maybe he’ll do a bit better at this whole X Factor thing. Current X Factor betting odds - 15/2

Rhydian Roberts - The most infamous X Factor finalist of the year, thanks to his skin-crawling self-confidence and the way he never ever blinks, Rhydian Roberts has given himself something of an image overhaul for the X Factor finals - now he looks like Robocop going to a fancy dress party as Billy Idol. In a moment of inspired madness, Rhydian decided that his first X Factor performance should be I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That), a song that allowed him to shout and run and slide around on his knees and generally act like the power-crazed dictator of a small Scandinavian principality. By the end of his X Factor routine the audience were throwing roses at Rydian. Presumably because the anvil shop closed early to watch the rugby. Current X Factor betting odds - 7/1

Tomorrow: X Factor betting odds for Niki Evans, Futureproof 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.