X Factor Betting Odds: Robert Allen & Eton Road

Are we the only who suspect that X Factor might be running out of high-profile celebrity guest coaches this year? We've had Bjorn From Abba, Rod Stewart and Tony Bennett so far, and how did the X Factor team top that this week?

Well, they couldn't. Not really, anyway. The X Factor musical guest on Saturday was Julio Iglesias, which left X Factor in a quandary. Do they make it a Julio Iglesias theme night and suffer the ignominy of watching all the contestants sing To All The Girls I've Loved Before one after the other? Do they do what Julio Iglesias has started to do lately and sing already bad Foreigner songs in even worse ways? Nope - they copped out and invented a spurious 'Love Songs' theme, which acted as a catch-all for every song ever written except for They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha-Haaa! by Napoleon XIV and Bergtrollets Hevn (The Revenge of the Mountain Troll) by Gorgoroth.

But who's going to win X Factor this year? Here are the X Factor betting odds for Robert Allen and Eton Road…

Robert Allen - Robert is, in many respects, the forgotten man of X Factor - if you asked most people to write a list of all the remaining X Factor contestants, Robert's name would come last, after Ashley and The Conway Sisters. Robert's usual shtick is to run around the stage as fast as he can gurning into the camera and whooping like a cartoon Mexican with a cactus in his bottom. This week, however, Robert decided to remove all of that and sing a sad song about a dead relative. And, manipulative emotional blackmail aside, it was a thoroughly dull performance save for two things; a) one giant shouted note right in the middle that sounded like Robert had put a nail through his foot and b) Kate Thornton repeatedly jamming her tongue up Robert's arse every single chance she got. On the plus side, at least this took our minds off Kate Thornton's weird dress sense, if only for a glorious second or two. Current X Factor betting odds - 22/1

Eton Road - If we're honest, this has been a mostly unremarkable series of X Factor with far less mental moments as we'd have liked. So thank heavens for Eton Road - their X Factor rendition of From Me To You was stuffed to the gills with more absolute solid gold "what the fuck?!" moments than we've seen anywhere in a very long time. There was Eton Road's cheapo backing track that sounded like it was made by a human being who was raised in an environment of total sensory deprivation, there were Eton Road's impossibly weedy vocals that made them sound like some malnourished boys trapped down a well, there was Eton Road's stunningly awful sub-See Hear choreography and - most of all - there was the ill-fitting, genuinely creepy slow-motion high-pitched choirboy spook-out interlude by the Botoxy one that honestly freaked the living cocks off us. It was easily the flat-out weirdest X Factor performance we've ever seen, and we can't decide whether it was an awful balls-up or a brilliant piece of top-notch subversive performance art. Not that we'd ever be caught dead voting for Eton Road, mind you. Current X Factor betting odds - 3/1

Tomorrow - X Factor betting odds for Ben Mills and Leona Lewis.