As the year draws to a close, Kelkoo, the online shopping comparison website, today unveils Christmas predictions from Paul’s cousin and only surviving relative, Ollie the Octopus. Not only does Ollie predict this year’s best-selling gadgets, films, toys and games but he also tips Dannii Minogue to be crowned winner of the X Factor judges.

Over the course of a few days in October, Ollie exercised his tentacles to choose his favourites from a range of competing items, all expected to be the strongest contenders in their respective categories this Christmas. For example, Ollie had to decide whether Barbie Video Girl, the doll with a video camera inside her necklace, would beat the Jet Pack Buzz Lightyear to the top of the toy list!

Following his X Factor prediction, our eight legged friend swiftly moved on to confirm that the iPad would win the battle of the tablets, and the Sony Playstation Move would outsell the Xbox Kinect in the ‘console wars’.