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X Factor News: Cardle plays it cool as series seven comes to a close

X-Factor RSS / Eliot Pollak / 08 December 2010 /

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Matt is odds-on to emerge triumphant - will he do it?

Matt is odds-on to emerge triumphant - will he do it?

"Cher has hijacked any remaining hatred on offer, once Katie Waissell had finally been bundled off the show. At last count, she was at blame for everything that is wrong with the world, and was the least popular person on Twitter whatever that means."

It's the Essex boy's to lose, says Eliot Pollak, who has kept a watchful eye on the headlines since day one

So here we are then - the end is nigh. Saturday nights will once more be yours. The trouble with the final weekend of the X Factor however, is that come Monday, the unemployment figures in this country will have swelled faster than Cash Warren on his wedding night (oh, Google it or something).

Indeed, reading the news this week, it appears that being OFF the show is truly awful. Waissell is in bits, Wagner can't get his bennies - it's the stuff of nightmares.

Enough of these losers however - who will win, that's what the world wants to know. Well, our tip is One Direction. During the inevitable victorious-homecoming segment of the final show, viewers will be treated to scenes of insane mobs of screaming girls. These same girls will presumably stay up all weekend hysterically prodding redial with their tearful swollen thumbs, in the vain hope that it might make Harry love them. The truth is they would be better prodding those thumbs into the floor to try and do some press-ups. The chaps from OneD are second favourite to land the big 'un at a tempting [3.95].

Cher meanwhile, has hijacked any remaining hatred on offer, once Katie Waissell had finally been bundled off the show. At last count, she was at blame for everything that is wrong with the world, and was the least popular person on Twitter whatever that means. Consequently she won't win, but might make an intriguing punt to come third at [5.5], or even best female at [6.4]. Those who polarise opinion still have their legions of fans. Like Marmite. Or the Nazis.

Rebecca seems to be the thinking man's choice, with her meowing cat vocals and Sade sense of style, but some might feel that she doesn't quite has the personality to do it. Those people should possibly cast their minds back to Leona Lewis, who had the voice of an angel, but a void behind the eyes when it came to backing and forthing with Dermot O'Really, or Kate Thorntons or whoever it was back then. Fergie, as nobody calls her, is [4.9] to win, and [1.62] to reach the final two.

Matt has seemed the "most likely to" from the start, and there's probably no change there (currently trading at [1.89]). The sympathy-voters will have felt sorry for him last week, because he was a bit poorly, and since many believe it damn near impossible for a group to win this thing, the prize is certainly well within his grasp. Crucially, his on-off relationship with the woman behind the scenes who smears eye gunk all over Cher appears to be OFF. Voting girls will like that. And that kids, could make all the difference.

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