Mark Owen relights current affairs betting

Posted in Press Releases on March 11, 2010 @ 1:59 pm by Richard Hutchinson

If you had asked Paddy Power last week what the odds would have been for ‘squeaky clean’ Mark Owen confessing to not one, not two, not three, but TEN affairs, you would have got something in the region of 100/1.

The mild mannered Take That singer has stunned punters with his sensational confessions of infidelity and forced Paddy Power to make dramatic changes to their ‘Current Affairs’ betting market.

With cheating husbands and betraying spouses coming out of the woodwork in recent weeks the latest ‘current Affairs’ market at Paddy Power gives punters the opportunity to predict what profession the next tabloid cheat might come from.

Not surprisingly soccer was top of their list at 13/8 after it was revealed footballers Ashley Cole and John Terry had been playing away. Second on the list was ‘TV Personality’ no thanks to housewives favourite Vernon Kay’s antics while Singer had been a middle of the road 8/1 to produce the next love rat!

Thankfully not many punters successfully predicted the next love-cheat would be a singer and just five bets amounting to €70 were placed on that selection leaving Paddy Power with a small payout of €560.

Due to demand, Paddy Power have revised the popular betting market although Soccer is still the red-hot favourite at 13/8 while Singer has now been catapulted into third favourite position at 4/1, behind TV Personality.

Sharon McHugh, spokesperson for Paddy Power said: “If Mark Owen can’t stay on the straight and narrow what hope does the rest of the male population have! This latest revelation has thrown our ‘current affairs’ betting wide open!”