X Factor Betting Odds: Niki Evans To Win?

We honestly can't thing of a more historic tradition than X Factor Big Band night, but that might be because we recently hit our head quite hard. Seriously, we're bleeding a lot.

Anyway, X Factor Big Band night took place on Saturday and gave the remaining X Factor competitors the chance to get their first taste of performing in front of a huge live band. Judging by Saturday's X Factor it also gave them the chance to mumble inaudibly because someone hadn't realised how loud all those trumpets would be, but that was probably less deliberate. The X Factor Big Band night can make or break singers - this year it broke Futureproof but last year it made Ray Quinn, but that's something the X Factor production team will pay for in the afterlife.

Who'll win X Factor this year? Here are the X Factor betting odds for Niki Evans and Rhydian Roberts, with help from Paddy Power…

Niki Evans - Now that she's effectively been banned from mentioning her dead father any more, Niki Evans has stumbled upon a brand new X Factor sob story - the "I'm just a poor old former dinnerlady" story. Obviously Niki will wear this one out in a couple of weeks too and we'll have to watch X Factor VT clips of Niki crying because her auntie gave her a purple My Little Pony on her eighth birthday instead of a pink one, but we'll worry about that when we need to. Because on Saturday's X Factor Niki Evans ditched her sad power ballad formula to belt out All That Jazz and, although at times she looked a bit like Jessica Rabbit in her Fat Elvis stage, by and large she pulled it off. Aside from an unfortunate incident where a trombone was played between Niki's legs, making it look like she had a tubular brass penis that looped back on itself, by and large it should be pointed out that Niki Evans stretched herself and generally succeeded. So this Saturday, to show that the sky really is the limit, we're going to see Niki Evans perform How A Thug Like It by C-Murder. Current X Factor betting odds - 2/1

Rhydian Roberts - Now, you may have thought that Rhydian Roberts screaming The Phantom Of The Opera at the top of his voice while the stage exploded around him on the second X Factor show marked a high watermark of over-the-top ridiculousness, but if that's the case you hadn't accounted for Rhydian Roberts using X Factor's Big Band night to perform Get The Party Started by Pink looking like the Queen Of Narnia dressed in the inside of a Refreshers packet. If you missed it, please try and track it down on YouTube, because all the nightmares you have for the rest of your life probably need a soundtrack. Honestly, the whole thing was so bewildering that it didn't even fit the usual definitions of good or bad - it was like being ordered to start a party by the giant floating stone head from Zardoz. Logic dictates that Rhydian Roberts will need to reign himself in for future X Factor performances otherwise he'll technically become some sort of avant garde performance artist, but we're not sure that Rhydian Roberts knows the meaning of the word restraint. Which should at least make Westlife Night interesting. Current X Factor betting odds - 6/4

Tomorrow: Strictly Come Dancing betting odds - 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.