{"id":3184,"date":"2018-01-23T18:29:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T18:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/?p=3184"},"modified":"2018-01-23T18:57:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T18:57:55","slug":"widdicombe-course-make-reality-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/news-events\/widdicombe-course-make-reality-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Widdicombe on course to make reality history"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><\/header>\n<p>Anne Widdicombe is on course to create reality TV history, if Bookmakers are to be believed.<\/p>\n<p>When the 2018 line-up was confirmed for Celebrity Big Brother, nobody gave the former MP a hope of winning the show \u2013 and as a result she was listed at 100\/1.<\/p>\n<p>Now her odds have come in massively to just 13\/8, and she is favourite for the first time and nobody has ever won a reality show have been a 100\/1 outsider.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis always looked a difficult market, but with the show ending at the start of February \u2013 Anne Widdicombe looks well on course for victory at this point,\u201d said OddsMonkey spokesman Pete\u00a0Watton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBookmakers are seeing a lot of money from the public and have been reacting over recent weeks, but for her to take over from Courtney Act at the head of the market was almost unthinkable just a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow if Anne carries on being so popular in the house, she will soon be odds on as the Bookmakers see this as a four-horse race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Along with Anne, Courtney, Shane Lynch and Amanda Barrie are the only contenders in single figures and the rest are not in contention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected Celebrity Big Brother Odds:<\/strong><br \/>\n13\/8 Anne Widdecombe<br \/>\n7\/4 Courtney Act<br \/>\n4\/1 Shane Lynch<br \/>\n9\/1 Amanda Barrie<br \/>\n25\/1 Andrew Brady<br \/>\n25\/1 Jess Impiazzi<br \/>\n28\/1 Dapper Laughs<br \/>\n33\/1 Wayne Sleep<br \/>\n80\/1 Malika Haqq<br \/>\n66\/1 Ashley James<br \/>\n100\/1 Ginuwine<br \/>\n100\/1 Jonny Mitchell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anne Widdicombe is on course to create reality TV history, if Bookmakers are to be believed. When the 2018 line-up was confirmed for Celebrity Big Brother, nobody gave the former MP a hope of winning the show \u2013 and as a result she was listed at 100\/1. Now her odds have come in massively to [&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":[841,74,1640],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[2939,4218,3914,3977,3975,4217,4220,3979,3924,115,3925,3923,3913,3912,3921,2739,3868,3911,3920,2891],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184"}],"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=3184"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3221,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions\/3221"}],"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=3184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3184"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oddsmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}