Oh stop kidding yourself Scotland, it had to happen at some point. X Factor now has to continue without the well-hidden talents of everyone's favourite dull-as-boxes creepy Scottish brother-and-brother singing duo, The MacDonald Brothers.

But, and this is something we'd never thought we'd find ourselves writing, The MacDonald Brothers didn't go down without a fight. Well, as much fight as two weedy-looking wedding singers are capable of, which really isn't a lot. Their version of Can't Smile Without You would have sounded exactly like the sort of performance that cub scouts give at nursing homes to get their Making Senile Old People Happy Via The Power Of Bland Music badges were it not for the giant terrifying off-key note at the end, which our scientists have proved is the exact same note that is played in old films to signify that a character has become mentally unstable. Not even a Jive Bunny-sounding version of Shang-A-Lang by The Bay City Rollers that was backed by flapping tartan and literally couldn't have been more Scottish if they'd have sung it drunk on Tennents Super under a railway arch could save them.

But now that The MacDonald Brothers are done for, who'll win X Factor? Here are the X Factor betting odds for Ray Quinn…

Ray Quinn – Despite the constant groundswell of support from people who think the word 'please' is spelt with three 'z's, Ray Quinn remains the outsider for the X Factor crown – a status which was only confirmed by his X Factor performances on Saturday. First came Ray's version of Mandy; a version that easily accomplished the formidable task of out-smugging both the Barry Manilow and the Westlife versions of the song by quite some distance and featured Ray trying to convey the song's emotion by doing a fairly good impression of a man trying to remember where he put his keys. Mandy was bad, but Ray Quinn's second X Factor performance was almost intergalactically dreadful. Ray sang My Way. Fucking. My. Way. The jumped-up little fucker. Of all the stupid, nobsacky, preposterous, self-important, overblown twatting songs he could have picked, the smug little turd decided to sing My Way. That's My Way – a song about a man looking back at the various places that his long life journey has taken him – being twerped out by a fucking eight-year-old. And while we're at it, what exactly is Ray's 'way'? Singing Abba songs in the style of the world's worst Vegas lounge singer? Look, you did OK by getting rid of The MacDonald Brothers on Saturday, but your job is only half done. This week, get rid of Ray. Get rid of him. For the love of God. Current X Factor betting odds – 6/1

Tomorrow – the X Factor betting odds for Ben Mills…