Over the last two seasons of X Factor, enough water has been chucked about to make the show more of a wet T-shirt contest than a talent show and – seeing how X Factor stars a smug man with manboobs, a squat Irish pixie and Sharon Osbourne – that's something nobody deserves to be subjected to.

There's more than a good chance of more X Factor water flinging this year, too; especially after Louis Walsh has started hurling liquids at contestants instead of just telling them they can't sing very well. The big question is: who's going to throw water all over whom? Yesterday we decided that Louis Walsh probably wasn't going to get soaked by Sharon Osbourne, but that's not the only possibility.

Here are the X Factor betting odds for Sharon Osbourne to throw a glass of water over Simon Cowell's head…

Sharon Osbourne to throw a glass of water over Simon Cowell's head – Yesterday we told you in explicit detail exactly why Sharon Osbourne throwing a glass of water over Louis Walsh for a second year running would be a bad idea (because it'd be old and tired and stale, mainly). But what's this? Sharon Osbourne throwing a glass of water over Simon Cowell? That's genius! It's fresh, it's an exciting twist on an old format… it's TV gold! But let's face it – Sharon Osbourne throwing a glass of water over Simon Cowell live on X Factor is never going to happen. Not because Simon Cowell doesn't deserve it – in reality he deserves to be flicked in the eye with a witch's shitty finger – but because Sharon Osbourne knows full well that Simon Cowell is the shadowy X Factor overlord. He's the main X Factor judge, X Factor was his idea, and X Factor is made by his production company – if Sharon Osbourne even got Simon Cowell damp with one atom of moisture, he'd sack her in a millisecond. Faced with a future of weekday TV chatshows and worrying that Kelly Osbourne has burnt their house down, of course Sharon Osbourne wouldn't dream of throwing water anywhere near Simon Cowell. Or… would she? Current X Factor betting odds – 6/1 

Tomorrow: The inevitable X Factor Christmas number one betting

[story by Stuart Heritage]