{"id":215025,"date":"2025-06-26T05:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T05:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/215025\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T05:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T05:05:09","slug":"next-james-bond-southampton-actors-odds-slashed-from-100-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/215025\/","title":{"rendered":"Next James Bond: Southampton actor&#8217;s odds slashed from 100\/1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Scott Rose-Marsh, who has appeared in the BBC hit The Outlaws, has now been installed as Betfred&#8217;s third favourite at odds of 5\/2.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Only Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Theo James are priced lower than the Harefield born actor.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Echo understands his odds on Betfred were drastically\u00a0slashed in the last 72 hours after a run of money was placed on Scott.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyecho.co.uk\/news\/25243237.countdown-star-bringing-brand-new-show-southampton\/?ref=ial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Countdown star bringing brand-new show to Southampton<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  His price has also shortened with a number of other leading bookmakers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Scott\u00a0attended Woodlands Community College before gaining a place at the Brit School in London aged 16.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  After leaving the performing arts school and battling addiction, Scott found himself working in telesales in Wales before his big break.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"Scott Rose-Marsh was working in telesales before his big break.\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Scott Rose-Marsh was working in telesales before his big break. In 2021, he told the Echo that &#8220;it was only two years ago&#8221; that he got back into acting.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I was working in a call centre in Wales when I thought to myself &#8216;I wish I continued with the acting&#8217; so I sent a video of myself to a local agency and it all stemmed from there,&#8221; he said in 2021.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Four months later I quit my job and here I am.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Tom Hardy and Idris Elba are both priced as outside shouts by Betfred at 25\/1.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyecho.co.uk\/news\/19692207.scott-rose-marsh-southampton-stars-stephen-merchants-outlaws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scott Rose-Marsh from Southampton stars in Stephen Merchant&#8217;s The Outlaws<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Robert Ford, digital outreach manager for the bookmakers, said: \u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of significant movement in our next James Bond market in the past 72 hours, with the biggest shift being The Outlaws star Scott Rose-Marsh having his odds slashed from 100\/1 into 5\/2 third favourite behind frontrunner Aaron Taylor-Johnson and The Gentleman\u2019s Theo James at evens and 9\/4, respectively.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Scott was cast as a gang member in Stephen Merchant&#8217;s hit show The Outlaws, and said that he got the role in &#8220;unusual&#8221; fashion.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I had a phone call with someone in the production team who said Stephen Marchant really loved my photo and they needed me to sell myself,&#8221; he admitted.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It was a complete stroke of luck.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The six-part series is about seven strangers serving community payback sentences renovating a building in Bristol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Rose-Marsh, who has appeared in the BBC hit The Outlaws, has now been installed as Betfred&#8217;s third&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-215025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114747927640116628","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}