Amelia Lily, Marcus Collins and Little Mix are the three acts who will battle it out, in front of 10,000 screaming fans at Wembley Arena over the weekend, to be rightfully crowned as X-Factor winner 2011. The acts will all perform on Saturday night, and then on Sunday evening the X-Factor winner will be revealed.

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Well, we finally said goodbye to Kitty last week before she belted out her farewell bawl and got bear-hugged by Lady GaGa at which point the pair of them then went off to get headless (sorry, legless) in under an hour. Kitty’s departure means that Louis has no acts left in the competition with still a handful of live shows remaining.

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X Factor Elimination Betting Week 3

Last week we said goodbye to boy band – Nu Vibe – after they were voted off by the judges after a sing-off against Frankie Cocozza. Neither act had really shone on the Saturday show, so it was fitting that these two should be placed in the bottom two of the public vote.

This week, their has been plenty of press about the X-Factor in the media – all bad! Seemingly, Simon Cowell is furious thanks to rating figures showing the show has dropped almost 2 million viewers plus producers have told the acts to up their game after branding them lazy during rehersals.

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Have you been tuned in at the weekend, over the last few weeks of Summer, as the X-Factor returned to our screens with the audition shows? Of course it has been all-change on the judging panel as Gary Barlow, Kelly Rowland, Tulisa Contostavlos become the new faces of the show alongside ol’ hounddog himself – Louis Walsh.

So far, X-Factor 2011 seems slicker than previous productions. More time has been spent on focussing on those that can actually sing – however, it wouldn’t be the X-Factor audiotion shows without the necessary peppering of those auditionees which seem a bit deluded or are just physically tone deaf.

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On Sunday night, after a rollercoaster 5 months, we’ll eventually have our new X-Factor 2010 winner. Either Matt Cardle, Rebecca Ferguson, One Direction or Cher Lloyd will win the coveted title plus a million pound recording contract and surely a crack at the Christmas Number One with the ‘Winners Song’.

I’m not too sure how the format of the 2010 X Factor Final will run, given the controversial decisions over the last couple of weeks, neither does those that work on the show either. Just ask Dermot O’Leary, who introduces the show, how fast the game changes day-to-day. Probably the 4 finalists will perform on Saturday, then at the beginning of Sunday’s show the finalist with the lowest vote will leave, another round of songs, then the person placed 3rd will leave and that will leave us with the top two performing their version of the 2010 X Factor ‘Winners Song’ before the final announcement is made. I think!

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The X-Factor finally grew up last Sunday evening and got rid of both Katie Waissel and Wagner Carrilho in a double eviction showdown. How on earth these two lasted 8 weeks on the show is anything beyond extraordinary – but it just goes to show how controversial the X-Factor 2010 betting has become this year. Perhaps, the show might be a little boring without these two characters – but, you know what? I can live with that!

On to Saturday’s live X Factor Semi Finals betting where the remaining 5 acts will fight it out to sing in next weeks grand Final. The remaining 5 acts are Matt Cardle, One Direction, Rebecca Ferguson, Cher Lloyd and Mary Byrne (or Marydoll as my Father has grown to affectionately call her).

Matt remains out-and-out favourite, with best betting odds of 8/11 from William Hill. Overall Matt’s performances throughout the show have been head and shoulders above the rest – OK, he has had a few wobbles along the way but even these less than 100% perfect performances still rank high above the rest, such is the magnitude of this lad’s talent.

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Once again the voting on the X-Factor last week surprised many with Cher Lloyd and wildcard, Paije Richardson, finding themselves in the bottom two. Cher, survived, just. However, according to a latest poll, currently running on the Ladbrokes site, things are not as straight-forward as they seem in the X-Factor betting stakes.

The poll suggests that longtime favourite, Matt Cardle will win the X-Factor with 29% of the voting public. But close behind on 26%, and growing every week, is Wagner Carrilho, the karate kicking Brazilian who sings like he’s in pain. Backing from the public, albeit thanks to online groups determined to get one over on Mister Cowell, has seen Wagner’s odds fall from 60/1 to 7/1 in the last few weeks.

Surprise, most of all from last week, was the rebirth of Katie Waissel, sporting a new hairdo and actually singing a decent performance without all the hullaballo of recent weeks. This ‘plain jane‘ approach seemed to work and Katie eased through in to the X-Factor Week 8 show. Will Miss Waissel be able to contain herself this week and once again prove she has a decent voice or will the fame-hungry monster from within reveal itself and put on another Marmite performance?

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It’s to be Beatles night this Saturday for the X Factor final 8 contestants. If you cringed as to what some (majority) of the contestants did to Elton John classics in last weeks show then expect the same punishment to be measured out against Britain’s greatest ever pop export – The Beatles. No doubt, the X Factor will become the Katie & Wagner show after Saturday’s performance. Until these two are properly dealt with and booted off the show we won’t have a signing competition.

How is it possible that a singer can be in the bottom two, four times out of six, and still the judges keep her in. Because it is all about the ratings, that’s how. They spin it around and say it went to deadlock and that the public decided … yadayadayada! X-Factor is now so see-through because the thought of having both Katie and Wagner in the competition anymore is wearing thin.

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This is a crucial week for X-Factor finalist Katie Waissel after the debacle of last week’s live Sunday show. Many X factor betting punters were left open-jawed when Cheryl Cole refused to do the job she’s paid to do and judge. It let the show become wrapped amid new fixing claims controversy and of course that wannabe crooner, Katie Waissel, would survive another week.

Now, as the X-Factor becomes in danger of losing any sort of respect it has left with the viewing public, surely it will be looking to redeem itself in the eyes of the watching TV audience.

Katie Waissel and Wagner are the sideshow acts for the X-Factor. One is being devilfied as the public’s No.1 hate figure and the other is a jester with a microphone. Neither has a chance of winning the show, although Wagner could if support continues to grow in a bid to shove two fingers up at Mr Cowell.

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It seems our nations favourite “singing competition” has another Jedwardesque twist in its tail. Wagner, a Brazilian-born throwback from an Austin Powers era is causing quite a bit of a stir. X-Factor 2010 betting is now showing the singer as being best bet to win 33/1 from Bet365 down from 80/1 from last week. Such is the kerfuffle surrounding an online group determined to keep Wagner in the competition that the credibility of the show could be put at risk. I guess the words “Pot, Kettle, Black” will not be lost on the shows producers.

Before anyone starts to say that this “online group” will run out of steam, they are the same people who kept last year’s X-Factor winner Joe McElderry from reaching Christmas No 1, opting for Rage Against The Machine instead. They know how to create a buzz online, they understand the power of social sites such as Twitter and Facebook, and they are really serious about making Wagner the 2010 X-Factor winner come December.

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