X Factor Betting Odds: Niki Evans Gone, Who’ll Win The Final?

How wrong were we? Niki Evans - the singer who we were convinced would come second in this year’s X Factor - actually ended up coming fourth in this year’s X Factor; the same as The MacDonald Brothers did last year, the lucky cow.

In hindsight, though, it was no surprise that Niki Evans got voted off X Factor so early. No matter how proficient they are, older ladies never make it to the X Factor final - especially ones like Niki, who think that they can get away with opening shows by murmuring out dreary Eva Cassidy covers and then get all indignant because nobody seems to like it much. Still, at least now that Niki Evans has been eliminated from X Factor the show’s prop department can put away those horrible black candlesticks that appear to have been stolen from the set of a 1970s low-budget European movie about sexy vampires.

But without Niki Evans in it, who’ll win the X Factor final on Saturday? Here’s part one of this week’s X Factor betting odds - for Same Difference and Leon Jackson - with help from Paddy Power…

Same Difference - For Same Difference to be in the X Factor final means that people actually like them enough to spend money voting for them, and that’s just about the most terrifying thought we’ve ever had. Especially after watching Same Difference’s first X Factor performance on Saturday - a gimmick-stuffed rendition of Chain Reaction than binned all notion of ’singing’ in favour of poncing around with a gang of enough beefed-up circus performers that it could legitimately qualify as a piece of propaganda created to try and turn toddlers gay.

However, as bad as their first X Factor performance was, Same Difference’s second song was at least proof that they know how to emotionally manipulate idiots properly. After crying unstoppably during her pre-song VT because she used to get bullied - and then bursting into tears immediately after she finished singing Never Had A Dream Come True - the Same Difference girl ensured that they’d get a bucketload of votes even if they’d sung Fuckin’ An Animal by Gwar. Also, have you noticed how stuff always falls from the ceiling when Same Difference do an X Factor performance? Here’s praying that this trend continues on Saturday’s X Factor final, only with anvils and bits of broken glass this time. Current X Factor betting odds - 7/1

Leon Jackson - Well now here’s a coincidence; Leon Jackson managed to scrape through the X Factor semi-finals on Saturday even though the celebrity mentor was Michael Buble, a man who Leon Jackson wants to be so badly it verges on creepy stalkerish obsession. Funny that. Or maybe Leon Jackson got through to the X Factor final because of his performance of The Very Thought Of You - where, dressed in an outfit that made his neck completely disappear, Leon plodded about awkwardly holding the hand of a random girl from the audience and singing in the sort of way that we’d imagine would convince crumpled alcoholics to commit suicide. Yeah, that was probably it.

Because it definitely didn’t have anything to do with Leon’s second X Factor performance - a leather-trousered rendition of How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You that was so uncomfortably skronky that not even Leon’s biggest fan could think it was anything other than utterly dreadful. But maybe Leon Jackson does deserve to win X Factor, you know - it’s been a while since we’ve had a Christmas number one performed by a massively inarticulate Scottish boy, after all. Current X Factor betting odds - 7/2

Tomorrow - X Factor betting odds for Rhydian Roberts. 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.