We don't know about you, but we're in the now-traditional midweek X Factor slump. The effects of seeing Sharon Osbourne whinge about her burnt house are wearing off, and Saturday seems like such a long time away.

Luckily for you, we're not going to stop doing our X Factor betting odds any time soon and – since the live X Factor finals are still a few weeks away – we're desperately filling time with our X Factor special betting odds. For those of you who don't know, that means betting on all kinds of crazy crap to do with X Factor but not really about singing or boring stuff like that.

Here are today's X Factor betting odds, for the chances of Sharon Osbourne slapping Simon Cowell…

Sharon Osbourne To Slap Simon Cowell In The Face – If there's one thing that we can rely upon during a series of X Factor, it's Sharon Osbourne's chronic instability. There she is one minute, patronising a single mother – and there she is a second later, setting fire to the curtains because Louis Walsh said her hair looks nice in a slightly suspicious tone of voice. Even though Sharon Osbourne obviously thrives on being a bit unpredictable, she does stray towards the 'dangerous loon' end of the unpredictability spectrum and so has every chance of slapping Simon Cowell in the face during the course of X Factor. She came close enough to it the other week when Simon made her tell a bunch of shit singers that they were shit instead of fobbing them off with the bland platitudes she usually gets away with, so a slap is definitely on the cards. And if Sharon Osbourne does slap Simon Cowell, everyone wins. Sharon Osbourne relieves a bit of her pent-up tension, we win a bit of cash and Simon Cowell gets his big smug face slapped. Wonderful. Current X Factor betting odds – 8/1 

Tomorrow - Taylor Hicks to judge X Factor?

[story by Stuart Heritage]