X Factor Betting Odds: Simon Cowell To Win?

Oh thank God - the next action-packed episode of X Factor is just a day away now. We were getting so deprived of idiots to laugh at that we nearly came round your house to ask your Mum to sing Roll Out The Barrel for us.

But instead, we're just going to sit tight in front of our TV and wait for X Factor - or Ha Ha Funny Disabled Singers Hour as its known round these parts - to come on and soothe us. Although X Factor is still in the funny/cruel opening section of the series, sooner or later you're going to have to vote on who wins X Factor, and by doing that you'll be choosing the winning X Factor manager too. We've already looked at the X Factor betting odds for Louis Walsh and Sharon Osbourne, but now its time for the head honcho.

Here are the X Factor betting odds for Simon Cowell to become the winning X Factor manager…

Simon Cowell - Yesterday we wondered how Sharon Osbourne would find the time to manage her X Factor contestants, but that goes triple for Simon Cowell. All Sharon Osbourne has to do is present a crummy little daytime TV show, but Simon Cowell has to balance American Idol, Celebrity Duets, American Inventor, America's Got Talent and all manner of other giganto US prime-time talent shows with X Factor. Luckily for Simon Cowell, though, we get the feeling that he'll be in charge of the 16-24 group during this series of X Factor. If this is the case, Simon's already got a headstart on Louis and Sharon - the teenage girls and broody Mums will vote for the pretty, non-threatening boys in the group and the Dads will vote for anyone in a short enough skirt. It goes without saying that Simon Cowell will have the kids singing Robson & Jerome b-sides by week three, but that doesn't stop him from being the favourite to win X Factor. Current X Factor betting odds - 6/4 

Next week - a bunch of weird X Factor specials!

[story by Stuart Heritage]