Little Mix bookies' favourites for X Factor win

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Little Mix bookies' favourites for X Factor win

The X Factor finalists Little Mix are favourites to triumph over Marcus Collins in Sunday's X Factor final - with bookies shortening their odds even further after Saturday night's show. As of Sunday morning William Hill were offering odds of 2/5 on the quartet becoming the first group ever to win the series - while Liverpudlian Marcus was the outsider at 15-8. "Little Mix now have the best chance ever of banishing the curse of the bands as they are odds on to win the show," said bookies' spokesman Joe Crilly. However the eventual winner is no longer favourite to land the coveted Christmas number one with their debut single. That honour belongs to Gareth Malone's Military Wives choir, who are 8-15 to top the charts over the festive season with their single Wherever You Are - with the X Factor winners' single just behind in the betting at 7-4. Saturday night's show saw Amelia Lily finish third in the competition after receiving the lowest number of public votes. The winner of this year's series will be crowned on Sunday night's final, which begins on ITV1 at 7.30pm.

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.