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andy2002 said:
I want Rebecca to win but I'd happily settle for Matt. Outside of them, anyone but Katie big chin.
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Katie 4/1 joint favourite with FYD to be first eviction. Gamu is 5/1 "with a run", personally if Corals will back the 40/1 on TreyC I'd say this looks outstanding value. Really can't understand why people are piling in on Matt Cardle - now less than 3/1 in places.
 
flash said:
Still doesn't justify picking Katie though and hating on Cheryl apparently is trending rather well on Twitter.....
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Is this twitter style speak or youth speak or something else that I'm totally out of touch with? :confused:


eta: Have just searched for trending. Results with Twitter come up first.
 
AverageJoe said:
You can watch Katie on her MTV show she did if you want. She's dyed her hair since obvs


No, I don't want to thank you very much. She has 3 different names as well, one for her show, another for her album and her real one, that's what I read a couple of days ago.
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Found this on Gamu

Gamu’s mum Nokuthula, 38, left Zimbabwe eight years ago and settled in Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire, with her daughter and two sons Milton, 12, and Marty, 10.

She was in Scotland under a work permit visa, which also covers her children as her dependants.

However, when the family recently applied for an extension, they were stunned when it was rejected.

Worried Nokutula is set to meet immigration officials during the week to discuss the new application.

The family's lawyer Frances Farrell, of Glasgow-based Peter G. Farrell, said: "Discussions are ongoing and we hope the situation can be resolved."

Gamu wowed the audience and judges at the Glasgow auditions earlier this year with her rendition of Katrina and the Waves' hit Walking on Sunshine.

The teenager was just three when her dad died in Zimbabwe and her mum struggled financially to bring up her children.

Nokutula eventually made the heartbreaking decision to leave them and fly to Britain to study.

Gamu and her brothers stayed with family members in Harare while her mum came to Scotland to study for a degree at Stirling University.

Three years later, the familywere reunited in Scotland and Gamu told the X Factor audition audience at Glasgow's SECC she just wanted to give something back to her mum.

The judges all heaped her with praise after her song, with Cowell describing the teenager as "really talented".

Gamu's audition has already had more than 1.5 million hits on YouTube - more than any other hopeful on the show - and she dedicated her success to the people of Scotland.

She said: "Without this country's help, it wouldn't have been possible."

She added: "I regard myself as a Scottish contestant, because this country has been so good to me.

"I have loads of great friends and loads of good people around me. It has been great."
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As I said - Digital Spy is the fountain of all knowledge when it comes to the entertainment world - the work permit visa is refused and Gamu is probably technically not permitted to be here to sing in the live finals (hence why Cher or Katie went through - still can't see why both went the through over TreyC). The legend that is Simon Cowell can't wait on the off chance that a lawyer may be able to sort it out - can you imagine anything worse - Gamu does quite well for the first couple of weeks and then the Home Office tells her to get out of the country. Think of the outcry as millions of fans demand their money back off of ITV for voting for Gamu when she had no chance of winning. ITV then sues Cowell (possibly or something). The fallout would be epic. Explains everything.............
 
Minnie_the_Minx;11117707][QUOTE=AverageJoe said:
You can watch Katie on her MTV show she did if you want. She's dyed her hair since obvs


No, I don't want to thank you very much. She has 3 different names as well, one for her show, another for her album and her real one, that's what I read a couple of days ago.
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This has already been confirmed elsewhere she already has a deal with Sony BMG (which they have been able to get her out of). Which record company does Simon Cowell work for again.... :D
 
I thought Gamu was a decent singer, but her speaking accent is brilliant, a real mashup. Like listening to Didi Hamman being very German then suddenly coming in with a really Scouse vowel or two.
 
flash said:
As I said - Digital Spy is the fountain of all knowledge when it comes to the entertainment world - the work permit visa is refused and Gamu is probably technically not permitted to be here to sing in the live finals (hence why Cher or Katie went through - still can't see why both went the through over TreyC). The legend that is Simon Cowell can' wait on the off chance that a lawyer may be able to sort it out - can you imagine anything worse - Gamu does quite well for the first couple of weeks and then the Home Office tells her to get out of the country. Think of the outcry as millions of fans demand their money back off of ITV for voting for Gamu when she had no chance of winning. Explains everything.............
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Ah well, between the lot of the judges, I'm sure they've got enough money to pay back all those voters. Not that they would of course. It would be like asking politicians to repay their dodgy expenses
 
Steel☼Icarus said:
I thought Gamu was a decent singer, but her speaking accent is brilliant, a real mashup. Like listening to Didi Hamman being very German then suddenly coming in with a really Scouse vowel or two.
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Well your accent would probably be a bit weird if you were a Zimbabwean living in Scotland
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
Ah well, between the lot of the judges, I'm sure they've got enough money to pay back all those voters. Not that they would of course. It would be like asking politicians to repay their dodgy expenses
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On the basis of all this, I think the possibility of 40/1 each way on TreyC looks outstanding if Corals are still offering this. It also explains why Gamu is so short but on the basis of with a run (e.g. she's not in - your bet is refunded/or something like that). Will investigate this.
 
flash said:
On the basis of all this, I think the possibility of 40/1 each way on TreyC looks outstanding if Corals are still offering this. It also explains why Gamu is so short but on the basis of with a run (e.g. she's not in - your bet is refunded/or something like that). Will investigate this.
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I don't bet so this is all going over my head. I want Matt to win. Failing that, Rebecca
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
I don't bet so this is all going over my head. I want Matt to win. Failing that, Rebecca
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http://www.oddschecker.com/specials/tv/x-factor/winning-act

Right explaining the logic - 12 competitors therefore if every act had an even chance everybody would be 11/1 (e.g. 11 losers - 1 winner).

Given the wildcard factor as long as TreyC get's in (she's now worst priced 33/1 - but realistically she running against Paige and the Cheryl Cole factor) she's exceedingly good value. As you can throw away at least 3/4 acts in the betting (Gamu - visa, Katie - the Cheryl factor, Mary - now seriously, and probably Storm - it ain't going to happen at his age) realistically it's an 8 or 9 runner race and she should be a best priced 8/1 or 9/1 (even assuming a 13 competitor competition). The each way terms are unfriendly though with Ladbrookes only going 1/4 odds on placing 1-3 (e.g. in TreyC's case as they only go 25/1 on her - approx half your stake at approx 6.25/1 on her finishing first 3).

Re: my comment above - if you oppose Matt on current (as of now) prices you could realistically back Rebecca, One Direction, Cher and Aiden and as long as one of them comes in, your in profit. Matt shouldn't be as short as 11/4, it can't be that one-sided.

The betting also explains who the likely wild-cards are (assuming Gamu is a goner as she's not technically permitted to be here - visa expired in August). Paige, TreyC (as we know she's or her friends has blabbed on twitter), Hustle and some random over 28 (sorry wasn't paying much attention).
 
can only assume thar Danii is a paid up KKK member given her choices. That fat black guy Paije was well worth putting through before the Italian twat. And that stupid bitch with the false lashes that is a 10th rate Amy Winehouse - wtf?

Go on Mary!!!
 
strung out said:
no posts for two weeks! :facepalm:

so, storm was a fucking wanker, and shit at singing too. cher was good but i thought too good for x-factor and should have waited to do something a bit more original with her career. the best bit was this though...

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Yeah ... LOL!

 
Just so someone can flame me come Sunday when it hasn't worked out - I took TreyC at 28/1 this afternoon on the nose with Corals. I reckon she'd been trimmed in from 33/1 after Gamu was pulled from the betting this afternoon. Still can't get how they can price her so far out, she's got talent (2 entries, 2 trip's to judges houses) - 28/1 is probably just the edge of the steal kind of territory.
 
I'm just being forced to watch an episode of this. Never seen it before. It's about as lachrymose as Diana's funeral with all the weeping, psychobabble, hugging and overemphatic underscoring. What happened to the British and and the stiff upper lip ? :(
 
It's not out of sync on normal tv.

eta - I've just switched over to HD and it's out of sync
 
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