So this is it, the last time we mention X Factor around these parts this year, at least until we stop to marvel at the dreadfully mushy power ballad that Rhydian Roberts will release as his first single right before Christmas.
Have you placed an X Factor bet this season yet? You'd be sort of dumb if you haven't – even though there's a clear favourite to win, the odds are still remarkably long. Maybe it's time you took a punt – there's really not any way it could be any harder. And then at least when you've won a pile of money from the result of the X Factor final you'll feel a lot less dirty about basically funding Louis Walsh's hair-fluffing habit. So – last X Factor betting odds of the series. Ready?
Good – then here are the X Factor betting odds for Rhydian Roberts, with help from Paddy Power…
Rhydian Roberts – One of our biggest complaints about X Factor is that it goes on for so long that we're completely bored of everything by the time it's finished. And that couldn't be more true of Rhydian Roberts – for close to three months now he's waddled out onstage and smashed whatever he's sung into exactly the same sort of opera-lite shoutfest week after week, and the novelty's starting to wear off. Rhydian's first X Factor song was Bridge Over Troubled Water – incidentally, the longest a reality TV singing contest has gone without pumping that old standard out – accompanied by some horrible interpretive dancers and a pair of leather trousers that seemed to state that Rhydian has completely given up on ever sleeping with a woman in his lifetime now.
And then, inexplicably, Rhydian's second X Factor performance was even duller. It was that old X Factor semi-final favourite You'll Never Walk Alone performed in an identical way to his first song, with the only difference being that he looked a little more like a besuited Terminator during this one. But what's the point of complaining? Rhydian Roberts is going to win X Factor whether we like it or not, and you people will have nobody but yourself to blame when, in 2010, Rhydian will be selling a third-rate CD of sub-Daniel O'Donnell festive cover versions called Rhydian Wishes You A Very Merry Christmas with a picture of him in a big sweater on the cover. Current X Factor betting odds – 2/7
Tomorrow: Strictly Come Dancing betting odds. But if that's too long to wait – or you feel like making more money than you know what to do with – head right over to the Paddy Power X Factor betting odds page to see the latest, and best, betting odds while you still can.