X Factor Betting Odds: Will A Group Win?

So, tomorrow’s the big day - and even if England lose at the rugby you’ll know that at least you got to spend an hour watching 12 honking nitwits get insulted by a smug man with radioactive teeth first.

It’s the start of the 2007 live X Factor finals! We honestly couldn’t be any more excited about either - what’ll happen? Who’ll be the first to sing a Whitney Houston song? What sort of ill-fitting frock will Dermot O’Leary wear? How many seconds will it take for Louis Walsh to decide to quit X Factor again? What percentage of X Factor contestants will be introduced with a hokily insincere sob story? Just how many transparently publicity-boosting platitudes will Simon Cowell hurl at Leona Lewis when she comes back to perform her new single? Will any of us care? X Factor! Yay!

Here’s our final preseason set of X Factor betting odds, for any of the groups to win, with help coming from Paddy Power…

Groups - What’s this? The groups are the favourites to win X Factor this year? How can it be, when a group has never won X Factor in the past? In reality, there are two big reasons why the groups could win X Factor this year. Firstly they have Simon Cowell as a mentor, and he tends to do quite well at X Factor, and secondly two thirds of the groups in the final are bloody cheats, smooshed together by the X Factor judges out of failed solo artists. Morally unsound, we know, but the lack of a Conway Sisters or a MacDonald Brothers already puts this year’s group a few steps ahead of previous years. But who are the X Factor groups this year? Well, there’s:

Same Difference - the group who we clearly overlooked when we just mentioned that there wasn’t a Conway Sisters or a MacDonald Brothers this year. A pair of brother/sister creepoids possibly designed by an evil scientist with a fondness for musical theatre who make the Bedingfields look like the Kray twins,

Futureproof - the group made of the rejected male solo singers, who stand a pretty good chance of winning X Factor this year until their egos invariably get in the way and they start fighting on live TV because one of them sang three more syllables on their own than the others, and

Hope - the girl-group created by the X Factor judges including three non-entities, an admittedly pretty idiot who seems to think that doing the splits a lot makes her fucking Madonna and a girl with a baby who cries a lot. They clearly hate each other.

A strong bunch of X Factor groups, but then the groups are always the easiest ones to hate, aren’t they? Current X Factor betting odds - 13/8

Next week: X Factor betting odds and Strictly Come Dancing betting odds! 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.