{"id":3080,"date":"2018-01-15T16:18:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T16:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/?p=3080"},"modified":"2018-01-15T16:24:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T16:24:23","slug":"widdicombe-biggest-reality-gamble-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/news-events\/widdicombe-biggest-reality-gamble-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Widdicombe could be biggest reality gamble of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anne Widdicombe has the Bookmakers running scared after emerging as one of the popular housemates in Celebrity Big Brother.<\/p>\n<p>Australian drag artist Courtney Act remains the odds-on favourite to win, but former MP Widdicombe is proving hugely popular with the public.<\/p>\n<p>After the launch show, Widdicombe was a huge outsider at 100\/1 and now she is second favourite.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We did suggest at the start of CBB that there could be some major changes in the market, yes since Courtney went in &#8211; she has proven popular with the public and the Bookmakers &#8211; but Widdicombe is the major mover,&#8221; confirmed OddsMonkey spokesman Peter Watton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Widdicombe is now around 6\/1 second favourite, and this would be the biggest upset in reality TV history were she to take the crown having been such an outsider to begin with.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aside from Widdicombe, the ladies are not figuring high in the betting with the Amanda Barrie next in the markets at over 20\/1.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected odds CBB:<\/strong><br \/>\nCourtney Act 5\/6<br \/>\nAnn Widdecombe 5\/1<br \/>\nAndrew Brady 7\/1<br \/>\nShane Lynch 16\/1<br \/>\nJohn Barnes 18\/1<br \/>\nAmanda Barrie 22\/1<br \/>\nJess Impiazzi 22\/1<br \/>\nDapper Laughs 25\/1<br \/>\nMaggie Oliver 25\/1<br \/>\nMalika Haqq 28\/1<br \/>\nRachel Johnson 28\/1<br \/>\nAshley James 80\/1<br \/>\nGinuwine 100\/1<br \/>\nJonny Mitchell 100\/1<br \/>\nWayne Sleep 100\/1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anne Widdicombe has the Bookmakers running scared after emerging as one of the popular housemates in Celebrity Big Brother. Australian drag artist Courtney Act remains the odds-on favourite to win, but former MP Widdicombe is proving hugely popular with the public. After the launch show, Widdicombe was a huge outsider at 100\/1 and now she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3086,"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":[2939,2738,2882,2885,3914,3977,3975,3979,115,3894,3913,3912,1996,3978,466,3893,3035,3013,3976],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080"}],"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=3080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3084,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions\/3084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3080"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}