The live finals of X Factor 2007 are almost upon us, and that means X Factor betting odds are almost upon us, and that means soon you’ll be able to make money from the clueless warblings of hateful attention-seekers. Yay!

We don’t know who the 12 X Factor finalists are going to be yet – although fingers crossed they’ll include the slightly incesty brother/ sister group with the wide eyes and the power of Jesus pulsing through their creepy, permanently-grinning musical theatre bodies. But while we don’t know the identities of the X Factor finalists, we sure as heck know the identity of the X Factor judges, so we’ll just carry on doing some betting odds about them instead.

So here are the X Factor betting odds for Simon Cowell to break down and weep on live TV, with betting odds from Paddy Power…

Simon Cowell to cry during a live performance - X Factor affects different people in different ways. Take us for example – sometimes when we’re watching X Factor we want to gouge out our eyes with a melon baller, but other times when we’re watching X Factor we’ll feel like slamming our head in a car door and then paying a local to run over our neck with the car. It’s just not something you can predict. But could something ever happen on X Factor to make Simon Cowell cry on live TV? It’s a possibility but, although these X Factor betting odds are probably hinting that the sheer power and emotion of a contestant’s voice will reduce Simon Cowell to a shell of a man, we think that it’s just as likely that start crying because either a) he’s realised what a waste of time X Factor is or b) he zipped up his flies in a hurry during a commercial-break pitstop and trapped his nipple. But, hey, crying through nipple-based agony still pays out. Current X Factor betting odds – 10/1

Tomorrow: Will Louis Walsh quit X Factor again, the big girl? 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.