X Factor Betting Odds: Simon & Paula To Get It On?

As much as we're legally obliged to love X Factor and get up real close to the TV screen when X Factor is on and laugh at all the bad idiots and kiss Sharon Osbourne on the mouth when she's not looking, we do have some X Factor-related reservations.

Mainly, we can't help that noticing that X Factor is becoming a bit of a soap opera. Last year we thought we'd seen the worst of it when Louis Walsh flounced off like a nancy, but this year looks just as bad, as you'll see tomorrow when a load of X Factor is given over to Sharon Osbourne going "There's been a fiiiiire in my currrrrrrrsed houssssse," like a sad witch instead of actual X Factor auditions. However, if X Factor is a soap opera then it needs some romance. And that, dear friends, is where today's X Factor betting odds come in.

Here are the X Factor betting odds for Simon Cowell to dump Terri Seymour and publicly start dating Paula Abdul…

Simon Cowell to dump Terri Seymour and publicly start dating Paula Abdul in 2006 - Terri Seymour is one of those people who, if you read tabloids enough, only gets referred to as Long-Suffering Terri Seymour. Terri Seymour is apparently Simon Cowell's long-term girlfriend, and every couple of weeks there's a story in the papers about how Simon Cowell's uncontrollable flirting makes Terri all angry. Leaving aside the fact that we can't help feeling that Simon Cowell even having a long-term girlfriend in the first place is unexplainably creepy enough, what are the chances of Simon Cowell ditching Terri for fellow American Idol judge Paula Abdul before the end of X Factor? Pretty high, it seems - Simon Cowell keeps inviting Paula Abdul onto X Factor, seemingly so he can just make jokes about how rarely she wears underwear, and we all know how much Paula Abdul allegedly likes to get it on with people she works with. But let's take this seriously. If Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul do start dating soon, our creepometer will explode - it'd be like watching a slimy male nurse at a mental home take one of his cackling female patients out behind a bush for some hot love. Yeeeach! Current X Factor betting odds - 16/1

Next week - Simon Cowell to burst uncontrollably into tears like a girl? 

[story by Stuart Heritage]