The live finals of X Factor start on Saturday, at last. We’ve spent month after month watching identical bad audition shows and now it’s finally time for the best part of X Factor to get going – the bit where we can really start disliking the contestants.

X Factor has been round for so long that everyone already has a rough idea of what the finalists will be like as people – there’ll be the smug bastard, the sobbing manboy, the hopeless colonial, the inexperienced youngster and the polished yet ugly show elder – and it looks like this year will be no different. Although, without Icaro in the final 12 of X Factor, it looks awfully like the ‘crackpot foreigner’ role will have to be filled by Dannii Minogue. Something tells us she’ll manage just fine.

Before X Factor gets going, we’re continuing our look at each X Factor category. So here are the X Factor betting odds for the male 14-24s, with help from Paddy Power…

14-24s Male – If ever X Factor had a golden ticket for the judges, it’d be becoming the mentor to the 14 to 24-year-old boys. It’s an obscenely easy group to look after – all you need is a bunch of boys handsome enough to make the sort of shrill teenage girls who listen to songs through their mobile phone speakers on buses shriek and wail with out-of-control hormonal lust and one pathetic sobbing infant to get the housewives onside. Bish bash bosh – X Factor victory is yours. However, this year the 14-24 males have Danni Minogue as their X Factor mentor, and history has shown that she knows about as much as success as Simon Cowell does about tastefully restrained dentistry. But who are the X Factor 14-24 males this year? Well, there’s:

Andy Williams – no, not that Andy Williams; this Andy Williams is a sad-eyed 22-year-old who may as well have a theme-tune called Ah’m Just A Lonely Little Asbestos Remover. He must have a load of asbestos in his tear-ducts because he never stops bloody crying,

Leon Jackson – this year’s Ray Quinn, only without the hateful self-belief, which means he’s a permanently-weeping mummy’s boy who very obviously hates every single thing about himself. Will leave X Factor in the first fortnight unless he a) gets a decent haircut and b) stops giving off the impression that he judges any girlfriend he’s ever had against his mother, and

Rhydian Roberts – who you’ll already know as ‘that awful unblinking overconfident fucktit’. Clearly this X Factor’s Darius, Rhydian better learn how to fake some humility quickly otherwise he’ll quickly become the most hated man in Britain, unless he already is. Which wouldn’t be a surprise.

Great – two miserable buggers and the world’s most overbearing prick. Good luck with that lot, Dannii. Current X Factor betting odds – 15/8

Tomorrow – X Factor betting odds for the groups. 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.