{"id":2899,"date":"2017-12-15T18:10:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T18:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2017-12-15T18:17:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T18:17:07","slug":"mcfadden-mcgee-battling-strictly-title-bookmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/news-events\/mcfadden-mcgee-battling-strictly-title-bookmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"McFadden and McGee battling for Strictly title &#8211; Bookmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe McFadden remains the odds-on favourite to claim the Strictly Come Dancing title this weekend but the general public are again getting behind Debbie McGee as the Bookmakers believe it is a two-horse race.<\/p>\n<p>Casualty actor McFadden has been favourite for the Glitter Ball Trophy for the past few weeks, but McGee has been one of the favourites from near the start &#8211; having started the competition as one of the outsiders &#8211; but Bookmakers are now reporting strong interest in the former magicians assistant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Joe has taken a lot of money, but nobody has seen more money throughout the competition than Debbie, and that is remarkable as these two were not even mentioned at the start,&#8221; said OddsMonkey spokesman Peter Watton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Joe was 20\/1 at the start, and Debbie was 25\/1 &#8211; indeed if Debbie&#8217;s wins it will be a record breaking gamble, considering she is now into around 7\/4 &#8211; but Joe remains odds-on at 8\/11.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat does mean the Bookmakers think that singer Alexandra Burke, long time favourite at the start, and actress Gemma Atkinson have little chance of winning, but at 7\/1 and 20\/1, there does look value &#8211; and let&#8217;s not forget, nobody &#8211; especially the Bookmakers &#8211; thought that last year&#8217;s winner Ore Oduba had a chance of beating Louise Redknapp or Danny Mac.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are other markets too, for instance because Joe is favourite the odds on a male are 6\/4 with a female success being at Evens, and that is interesting considering you have three on one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strictly Come Dancing winner odds:<\/strong><br \/>\nJoe McFadden 8\/11<br \/>\nDebbie McGee 7\/6<br \/>\nAlexandra Burke 7\/1<br \/>\nGemma Atkinson 20\/1<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe McFadden remains the odds-on favourite to claim the Strictly Come Dancing title this weekend but the general public are again getting behind Debbie McGee as the Bookmakers believe it is a two-horse race. Casualty actor McFadden has been favourite for the Glitter Ball Trophy for the past few weeks, but McGee has been one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":""},"categories":[74,1640,2703],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[2736,3602,2804,2527,2812,115,3621,3620,2555,2526,1996,2810,2530,3008,2522,3416,2556,2739,2855,2533],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2908,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions\/2908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}