Archive for April, 2009
LONDON – OVERNIGHT singing sensation Susan Boyle has been hit be criticism after undergoing a ‘make-over’ said reports on Thursday.
Although she had previously insisted that she wouldn’t change despite becoming popular world-wide, Ms Boyle appears to have changed her previously dowdy look.
Having become so quickly after one appearance, the 47-year-old singer has been hounded by tabloid newspapers. When she stepped out of her home in Scotland this week photos of her were quickly snapped.
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Susan Boyle’s story ‘to be made into movie’
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April 23rd, 2009 >> Susan Boyle News
Miss Boyle’s rendition of Les Misèrables classic I Dreamed A Dream has been watched more than 100 million times on YouTube and other websites, putting it on course to become the most viewed internet clip ever.
And it is believe Simon Cowell is now fighting off offers from Hollywood, with reports that he is eager to produce a film of her life himself.
One actress who may be interested in portraying the 47-year-old from Blackburn in West Lothian, is Demi Moore, credited in part for Miss Boyle’s worldwide success.
After seeing the Scot’s performance online Moore’s husband Ashton Kutcher reportedly wrote on Twitter that it “just made my night”.
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Internet singing sensation Susan Boyle is cleaning up her act.
The charming every woman told Larry King she had no desire to change dramatically, “particularly my identity.” Since her rise to fame after a shockingly impressive performance on “Britain’s Got Talent” circulated around the Internet, she has been dressing up a bit to look her best at appearances.
Recent photos show her wearing a floral dress and high heels, while her latest look shows a brow makeover that opens up her eyes and flatters her face.
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Commentary: Why we’re fascinated by Susan Boyle
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April 23rd, 2009 >> Susan Boyle News
NEW YORK (CNN) — Susan Boyle, who recently performed on the U.K. television show “Britain’s Got Talent,” has captured the world’s attention.
In case you’ve missed it, she’s a 47-year-old unemployed charity worker who lives with her cat in a small village in Scotland.
As soon as she walked on stage, the audience began to snicker and roll their eyes. Simon Cowell, the show’s host, asked her some pre-performance questions in his famously condescending style, and to the audience’s enjoyment, she answered awkwardly.
She was painfully ordinary, and everyone was prepared, looking forward even, to see her fail.
By now, if you don’t know the story, you could guess it, right? She more than wowed them. She opened her mouth to sing, and, as judge Piers Morgan later said, she had “the voice of an angel.”
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Interview: The prime of Miss Susan Boyle
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April 23rd, 2009 >> Susan Boyle News
STORM CLOUDS are forming over Susan Boyle’s house. It’s Tuesday afternoon and the weather has turned cold on this small council estate in the West Lothian village of Blackburn where, 12 days ago, a star was not so much born as made.
At the front gate, a man from the council is building a new fence, behind which several reporters and press photographers hover. They look anxious, huddled against the wind, hopeful even for a momentary glance of the unemployed, 48-year-old local who is, apparently, ‘bigger than Obama’.It is not easy to get an interview with Susan Boyle now. In fact, it may be easier to get an interview with Barack Obama. The Scotsman has been trying to speak to her since 10 April, the day the first stories appeared about a middle-aged Scottish woman who had apparently impressed Simon Cowell during the Glasgow audition of Britain’s Got Talent, which was due to be aired on ITV1 the following night.
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Susan Boyle Joked About Never Being Kissed
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April 23rd, 2009 >> Susan Boyle News
Britain’s Got Talent singer Susan Boyle may not be as naive as she would have us believe.
The 47-year-old spinster told viewers of the U.K. TV talent show that she lived alone, had a cat called Pebbles, and had “never been kissed.”
But it wasn’t true.
Boyle, who has competed in countless talent shows, used the line to curry favor with the audience. She told a TV interviewer from U.K. breakfast show GMTV, “That was made as a joke! Never been kissed? I’ve never stopped.”
The blogosphere has lit up at the news.
“Angel or crazy for publicity? You decide,” was how fan site CafeArjun.com responded. “I’m forced to believe it was all a planned show!”
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These photos of Susan Boyle rocking a cute little dress and a hip leather jacket will no doubt have some folks crying “blashphemy!” Ever since the Britain’s Got Talent video of the frumpy, bushy-eyebrowed, never-been-kissed Boyle singing angelically first hit the Web a week and a half ago, many among the sobbing masses have lamented an inevitable post-stardom makeover. Few will blame the sweet Scottish songbird herself but will instead blame a ruthless, unfair entertainment industry that forced a woman with a hidden inner beauty to succumb to a plastic, cookie-cutter standard of external beauty.
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Early recording of Britain’s Got Talent’s Susan Boyle unearthed
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April 22nd, 2009 >> Susan Boyle Videos
The 48-year-old recorded two songs ten years ago and distributed them to only a handful of her closest friends in the village of Blackburn, West Lothian, where she lives alone with her cat.
The recording, which was unearthed by Telegraph.co.uk, features two songs – an early version of the blues ballad Cry Me a River and Killing Me Softly with His Song, the track immortalised by Roberta Flack in 1973.
Last week the Daily Record newspaper in Scotland uncovered Miss Boyle’s first CD recording – a version of Cry Me a River recorded for a millenium charity compilation CD at Whitburn Academy.
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Britain’s Got Talent stars Susan Boyle and Paul Potts duet?
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April 22nd, 2009 >> Susan Boyle News
Susan Boyle may have never had a boyfriend, but she could soon have a singing partner.
At least if Simon Cowell has anything to do with it.
Cowell is reportedly scheming to pair the British singing songbird with another “Britain’s Got Talent” sensation and YouTube success story: salesman-turned-singer Paul Potts.
Cowell, the acidic judge behind both “American Idol” and “Britain’s Got Talent,” – where the world met both Boyle and Potts – thinks a pairing has great musical potential.
Cowell is already planning a film called “Star Struck” based on Potts’ immediate rise to fame.
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VANCOUVER – Whaddaya mean there’s no Santa Claus?!
It’s worse than that. Internet sensation Susan Boyle, who garnered at least 30 million YouTube views with her Cinderella performance on Britain’s Got Talent, is a player in a giant fraud.
Or is she? She can surely sing, as evidenced by the tears that flooded the world as the plain Scottish lass sang the Les Miz hit I Dreamed a Dream.
Suddenly, the 47-year-old virgin became everybody’s sweetheart; the kind that brings warmth in the middle of a frosty recession. Broke and jobless? “I know, Andy, we’ll put on a show!”
And a show did talent curmudgeon Simon Cowell surely put on. Or was it crusty Cowell’s put-on?
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