The bubble burst as favourite Olly Murs and JEdward in Bottom Two…
Suntalk listeners will know that I am relieved that John and Edward were eliminated from Sundays X-Factor, having laid £50 at 100/1 to Martel Maxwell who was sitting in for Jon Gaunt. Their elimination is a big relief I can tell you! Having taken some stick, its my turn to dish it out!
Simon Cowell had the chance to eliminate the Twins a couple of weeks ago but played the let the public decide card. It back-fired on Cowell in the media and it seems the support for JEdward disappeared tonight too.Cowell said he gave Olly a “contemporary song” in Fast Love. It was actually released in 1996, 13 years ago, positively up to the minute!
So the novelty act has gone, now perhaps it can be a singing competition, which Cowell said it was until the ratings and headlines made him do a U-turn.
Danni Minogue made that very point but may have signed her own P45 as Cowell has already stated that the show will be better served by three judges, not the current four. I said a couple of weeks ago that Cowell had his Gerald Ratner moment when saving JEdward. I still think the X-Factor has peaked and we will see a steady decline from here.
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The elimination of JEdward tops a great weekend for me. Racing Diary readers were in clover with big racing winners on Saturday, seven out of ten weekend football results forecast and today Vic Venturi won the Becher chase at a whopping 7/1 on Sunday, a great price. Kauto Star landed a charity bet for Children In Need for us on Saturday.
I will sleep a bit better tonight knowing I do not have to find £5000 to give Martel. Instead I get £50 from her, which I will ask her to send, with my complements to Help for Heroes.
I wonder if Gaunty will be asking on his show on Monday, “Is the X-Factor Finished?” Tune in to find out from 10am on Monday.
Britains Bookies were this evening dancing in the aisles as the gruesome twosome Jedward FINALLY exited stage left from talent show The X-Factor.
The Irish duo had been heavily punted to win the contest, and Bookmakers William Hill were staring down the barrel of a seven-figure payout if the Brothers Grim had gone all the way.
Ruperts Adams, spokesman for William Hill, said: Jedward would cost the industry a cool seven figure sum and we couldnt be happier that they are going home. We also make it a betting certainty that the vast majority of those with a musical ear are ecstatic too!
William Hill offer odds of 25-1 that the pair make it a Festive farce with a Christmas Number One, and 2-1 that they top the charts at some point during 2010.
X-Factor Lastest betting from William Hill.
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6-4 Joe McElderry
9-4 Stacey Solomon
3-1 Ollie Murs
5-1 Danyl Johnson
33-1 Lloyd Daniels
