Dancing On Ice Betting 2010
Returning for its fifth series in January 2010, ITV1's Dancing on Ice fills the void left by BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing. Well no, it doesn't really does it? But it's all the online TV and entertainment betting community have left to get their teeth into once the Christmas decorations have come down and before your New Year resolutions have had a chance to take a nose-dive for another 12 months. If there's one thing mental image funnier than Bambi on ice, then it's celebrities strutting their oft-calamitous stuff on ice. Hilarious visions of ex-Eastender actor, Todd Carty comedically exiting stage left whilst busting almost animated moves anyone? Peerless mirth. Of course the flip-side of former TV stars making sincere asses of themselves on an unruly surface are those former TV stars who can actually skate; and smugly know it. Cue the number one Ray Quinn fan, the nauseatingly prig-like, Ray Quinn. Here was a man-child who not so much believed their own hype but might as well have researched and conducted his very own survey to ascertain just how great at ice-skating he really was.
This far ahead of the Dancing on Ice 2010 competition any names being volunteered for inclusion on the show are purely rumours and far from cast in stone. Or ice. But as is the nature of any celebrity-based TV talent/reality show, personalities are bandied around long before stars' participation is confirmed or dismissed out of hand. And too many online Dancing On Ice Betting 2010 fans, it all amounts to part of the fun itself. Paddy Power and Boylesports are doing all the internet Dancing on Ice betting 2010 running as we write, as well as all the usual Free Bets and despite none of the below-mentioned stars ruling themselves either in or out of the new series hasn't stopped the two giants of Irish online bookmaking shouting their odds first.
Hayley Tamad-odds-on
24/02/2010
Bookmakers are running scared of Hayley Tamaddon in the Dancing On Ice Betting 2010. After being the early joint-favourite alongside Boyzone’s Mikey Graham, the Emmerdale star is now a 4/7 shot with the majority of online bookmakers and looks to be a certainty to make the final and then go on to win the Dancing On Ice 2010 title. Although Graham remains her closest challenger in the betting markets (you can back him at 4/1), it is Daniella Westbrook and Gary Lucy who many are tipping up to be her main rivals, they are both available at 6/1 in the betting and if they continue to improve week on week as they have been doing so far then they could be in with a shout.
At the halfway point of the competition there are just six contestants left making the elimination betting markets even harder to predict. We have no outright favourite this week (week 8) with Emily Atack and Dany Young both looking to be the most likely to get their marching orders; both are priced at 13/8 to go and it would take a disastrous performance from any of the other contestants to see these two both here next week.
Duo of favourites installed for Dancing On Ice Betting 2010
01/02/2010
So you’ve had a good few weeks to get your teeth stuck into our latest fix of reality TV and the bookmakers have had a good few weeks in order to suss out who are the potential winners and who will be sent packing early doors. At this very early stage the Dancing On Ice Betting 2010 has two clear favourites singled out, Emmerdale actress Hayley Tamaddon and Boyzone singer Mikey Graham. Both can be backed at around the 7/4 mark. Next up is Gary Lucy at 5/1; he is being touted as the best skater in the competition by mentor Christopher Dean but needs encouragement from the judges to come out of his shell when performing in the live shows. Eastenders star Daniella Westbrook is next at 8/1 followed by actor Danny Young at 12/1. The rest of the cast are seen to be a bunch of no hopers by the bookmakers and can be backed at anything upwards of 25/1.
The boys are heading the betting in the ‘Gender of Winner’ market and are available to back at 8/11, whilst the fairer of the species can be backed at 6/5. You can also bet on who will be in the bottom two (or the skate-off to keen viewers), who will get the highest and lowest score each week, the next elimination, top male, top woman and whether one of the skaters will punch judge Jason Gardiner. Okay we made the last one up but I think you get the point that there are plenty of Dancing On Ice Betting 2010 opportunities.
Paddy Power And Boylesports Post Early Dancing On Ice Betting 2010 Internet Markets
Based on what unfulfilled criteria, we're not quite sure, Paddy Power have readily installed Danny Young as their ante-post favourite to land the Dancing on Ice betting 2010 title. Less the 'betting' bit inscribed on the winners' cup. He's closely followed by Gary Lucy in the reckoning with Kieron Richardson completing the past and present soap star triumvirate that top both Paddy Power and Boylesports' Dancing on Ice betting 2010 tree thus far. Not to be left out of the conundrum Louise Redknapp, Mikey Graham, Fern Britton, Jeremy Sheffield, Keeley Hazell, Ruth Langsford and Tracey Shaw all sit close behind the front-runners at this early stage in proceedings, all of which is seemingly based on guess work. Or the fact that some of them may have acquired a 25m badge in ice skating in a straight line without hopelessly coming a'cropper. Who knows.
Focusing on the betting itself, and the To Win Outright market will undoubtedly bear the brunt of the Dancing on Ice betting 2010 markets, while Naming The Top Three, Naming The First Celebrity To Be Voted Off and Naming The Order The Celebs Will Get Voted Off will all garner much interest in terms of the virtual entertainment and TV Betting markets. So, just what other top drawer celebrities could remove us from our TV comfort zones in the one, fell swoop. Well, so the story goes, motor-mouth TV chef Gordon Ramsay has already reportedly blurted out the half-truth that his put-upon wife, Tana Ramsay is all set to don her blades and skate into prime-time ITV1 schedules in January 2010, whilst idle banter has also alluded to talk of former Paul McCartney-leach and all-round self-obsessive, Heather Mills appearing on the celebrity skating show, having earned her stripes by taking part in the American adaptation of Strictly Come Dancing, the celebrity-pamperingly titled, 'Dancing with the Stars' back in 2007.
Ex-Soap Stars And Former TV 'Personalities' Head Dancing On Ice 2010 Betting Markets
Elsewhere unconfirmed chitter chatter leads us to believe that 1980's pop star and Simon Cowell-hanger on, Sinitta will be gliding into view when the new series of Dancing on Ice kicks off, while the very latest gossip hints fresh off the rumour mill is that Eastenders' Sam Mitchell and Bride of Chucky doppelgänger, Daniella Westbrook has been signed up for the next instalment of the popular ratings-winning show. Only it would be, wouldn't it? A ratings winner that is. Just think about it for a minute. It's January, therefore it's pitch black and freezing outside, quality weekend TV fare like X Factor and Im A Celebrity......Get Me Out Of Here is but a distant memory and we're all skint after an expensive Christmas. Essentially we're a captive audience more than willing participants.
Meanwhile, other names we'd long since consigned to history the minute they ceased to be either productive, entertaining or relevant spoken about in the same Dancing on Icey 2010 breath include ex-England goalkeeper, 60-year old Peter Shilton, never funny comedian and one time 'TV Personality', Bobby Davro, former Olympic swimmer-turned-athletics commentator and would-be yummy mummy, Sharon Davies and Kelle Bryan. You know, her from Celebrity Love Island? No? One-quarter of disbanded girl group-cum-gospel choir, Eternal? Oh well, she's supposedly in the frame.
TV Betting Gears Up For 2010 With Dancing On Ice Next On Celebrity Participating Horizon
As always there's a selection of former soap stars and starlets lined-up to remind us all why they're not still gracing the small screen (I.e., complete lack of charisma, presence and talent), who are chosen for their looks alone. Hollyoaks' enfant terrible Kieron Richardson, Coronation Street bit part actor, Danny Young, Holby City's Jeremy Sheffield and David Spinx from Eastenders; the later of whom played the role of work-shy scruff-ball, Keith Miller last time we saw him. And naturally the ubiquitous Gary Lucy. Ex of Footballers' Wives, Hollyoaks and that eternal rest home for once mighty (now long way fallen) thesps, The Bill. Jeez, what more could you ask for.
Don't, as you'll then have no one else to blame other than yourselves when clapping your unforgiving eyes on former Coronation Street crimper, Tracy Shaw, Footballers' Wives veteran, Susie Amy and Inbetweeners actress, the brilliantly named Emily Atack. Continuing on a TV totty theme, and ex-S Club 7 member Tina Barrett is set to do battle on Dancing on Ice 2010, alongside that other former pop pin-up and now wife to Jamie, Louise Redknapp, Glamour model and Page Three stunna, Keeley Hazell, easy-on-the-eye Hollyoaks' actresses Gemma Merna, Jennifer Metcalfe and Loui Batley. Cor blimey.
Could X Factor Stars 'Jedward' Appear On 2010 Dancing On Ice?
Otherwise there's a host of big name, oops, our mistake......a host of inconsequential names who may or (more than likely) may not figure in the new Dancing on Ice 2010 spectacular come January. Like for example the ex-Boyzone member that no one remembers outside of the boy-band, Mikey Graham, former ITV1 This Morning co-presenter and gastric band devotee, Fern Britton, Test cricket specialist, Matthew Hoggard, ITV1 Loose Women panellist and professional Geordie, Denise Welch and stand-in ITV1 This Morning presenter and face of ScS Furniture, Ruth Langsford. Expect names to be struck off this informal list or further added as we get closer to the start of the news series.
Perhaps the most amusing story (and wildly speculative and wholly unfounded to boot) linking potential Dancing on Ice celeb recruits to the new series, is that surrounding X Factor 2009 rejects, John and Edward Grimes. Better known as 'Jedward', the terrible twins that were ejected from the X Factor during week seven of the pop star-searching TV talent show have been mentioned purely in response to their cajoling on ITV1's This Morning show recently, when asked by This Morning and Dancing on Ice dream hosting team – Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby – if they would consider competing on the ice dancing spectacle. And to paraphrase the legally binding conversation in its entirety; Philip said innocently enough: “So, can you skate?”, to which the tone-deaf twins replied: “We're pretty good at roller-blading”, moving a clearly excited Schofield to retort: “Excellent, see you next year!”. Damning, circumstantial evidence if ever. So don't expect to see 'Jedward' scampering around on ice any time soon then.