Thank you koko - I get goosebumps every time I hear that song. Les Mis is one of my favourite operas/musicals and she really did justice to that song. Got right to the essense of it.



It says a lot about the shallowness of the judges and even more so that they actually admitted it.!!!!

The reaction of some of the audience, as well as the judging panel, before she sang, was pretty low in my book, and showed far less breeding than Susan Boyle possesses.

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Yes they sure like the "beautiful people" but charter and personality win out every time

Another interesting background piece on Susan Boyle, includes a recording she made in 199 9 of "Cry Me A River".

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I make sure I log on to You Tube at least once a day to listen again to this fabulous woman,the judges should certainly look at themselves and not judge everybody, I think she (Susan) has more personality in her little finger than they have in their whole bodies.



I only hope that this does not change Susan in any way, as she is wonderful as she is. I will certainly be one of the first in line if and when she brings out a CD.

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I think she (Susan) has more personality in her little finger than they have in their whole bodies.



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Hear hear--I agree they are very shallow.

A very well written article on Susan Boyle .

HERE’S the real question, with YouTube sensation Susan Boyle committed to a clinic on Sunday after a nervous collapse.



Isn’t it better to have sung and lost, than never to have sung at all?



An estimated 200 million people around the world have watched Boyle over the past two months sing herself into such a state that guys in white coats had to take her away.



And now, with the Britain’s Got Talent star in seclusion at a London clinic, recovering from “exhaustion”, the remorseful audience is demanding the guilty be punished.



Naturally, it’s the show’s producers who are being auditioned for Lead Scapegoat, being accused of evilly making us watch and coo over Boyle, before we turned, in our usual way, to bitching about her instead.



Britain’s Culture Minister, sniffing a media opportunity, this week warned the fast-buck men in charge of such reality TV shows they had a “duty of care” to contestants as vulnerable as Boyle, a 48-year-old unemployed church volunteer and gawky virgin who, we’re told in hushed voices, was “starved of oxygen” at birth.



But author Nicci French is among the finger-waggers also blaming the audience, lashing out at “our shame” in having urged on this Cinderella to live out a “fairytale” for which she was grossly miscast - a fairytale that has now ended in “sadness and shame”.



Scolded and scalded, Got Talent frontman Sneering Cowell announced he’s really all treacly sweetness and angelic light, and has publicly torn up the contract that bound Boyle to a series of concerts around the country with other stars of the show.

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As if they could have even dreamed of yanking her from the clinic and shoving her on stage, to sing until she screamed.



But steady. Am I missing something here?



Did anyone actually push Boyle on to that stage that fateful night she sang I Dreamed a Dream - and then proceeded to live it?



Has Boyle since concluded she did indeed make a terrible mistake in leaving her lonely home and cat Pebbles, and that her true happiness lay not on singing on a grand stage but in remaining the jobless, futureless frump of some Scottish village?



Or could it just possibly be that when she’s recovered, and got herself better minders and a bit of perspective, that she’ll go on singing to a public she’d never imagined she’d find, amazing crowds with her one inspiring talent?



In fact, asked that first time on the Got Talent stage for her dream, she replied without hesitation she wanted to be as successful as Elaine Paige.



How the crowd laughed - you can see them haw-hawing on that famous clip - at the foolish conceit of such a plain middle-aged woman to liken herself to the glammed-up elfin superstar.



All they saw then was only how Boyle seemed, rather that what she passionately felt herself to be.



But then, of course, she sang.



Now it’s Paige who wants to be as famous as Boyle, offering to record a duet with a woman so suddenly a superstar that recording companies are offering her millions, US talk shows are begging to interview her, actresses want to play her in a movie of her life, and President Barack Obama is asking her to sing at the White House for the Fourth of July. Already the Czech National Symphony Orchestra is scheduled to record an album with her.



The rest of the story is here:



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She's back! Good on her, and I certainly wish her all the best.

SUSAN Boyle made a triumphant comeback today, returning to the stage to thousands of screaming fans.



Following a day of doubts when not even tour organisers knew whether she would perform, the Scottish singing sensation stepped out before an audience of more than 10,000 and sang the song that made her a global star two months ago I Dreamed A Dream from the musical Les Miserables.



She then followed up with Memory from Cats.



The 48-year-old spent almost two weeks in a London private hospital after collapsing following her coming runners up in a TV competition Britain's Got Talent.



Her doctors said she was suffering exhaustion but also severe stress from having become a global star virtually overnight after her audition performance.



Back in April she was initially jeered and laughed at by the audience, mainly because of her frumpy unkept look.



But then she began to sing, silencing the crowd and critics and her stunning performance went on to attract one million hits on YouTube and become the most downloaded clip in history.



Last night in Birmingham National Indoor Arena, the first venue for a proposed national tour for the finalist from Britains Got Talent, she stunned a

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Let's hope Susan Boyle gets all the help available to cope with being "famous" and all that implies. It should be mandatory for the organisers of these competitions to provide that assistance for all contestants. Most of us just see the glamour, big money and public adulation that comes with stardom. However, there is a lot of hard work, lack of privacy, and usually more financial success than they have ever imagined. Then there's the constant media attention,which is frequently exaggerated or untrue, and nothing and no-one prepares them for this.



Criticism is quick to come when our heroes slip up, and those who should have been responsible dump them (Andrew Simmons as an example, and there are many more). These so called promoter/managers make millions of dollars out of these talented people, and appear to care nothing for their welfare.

Let's hope Susan Boyle gets all the help available to cope with being "famous" and all that implies. It should be mandatory for the organisers of these competitions to provide that assistance for all contestants. Most of us just see the glamour, big money and public adulation that comes with stardom. However, there is a lot of hard work, lack of privacy, and usually more financial success than they have ever imagined. Then there's the constant media attention,which is frequently exaggerated or untrue, and nothing and no-one prepares them for this.



Criticism is quick to come when our heroes slip up, and those who should have been responsible dump them (Andrew Simmons as an example, and there are many more). These so called promoter/managers make millions of dollars out of these talented people, and appear to care nothing for their welfare.



I agree with you to a point, Pommy. But, while I wish her well, I do have concerns that she may not have the intestinal fortitude to withstand the pressures.

I'd like to see her make lots of money, fairly quickly, and then just go back to doing her own thing...for her own sake.

Counselling etc is ok up to a point, but then it is up to the individual....and she may not have the emotional strength.

When we see what has happened to a few others who have been catapulted into the limelight, people stronger than her, and have come a cropper, I worry for her.

Remember the young Aboriginal girl who won Australian Idol? I can't even remember her name.

But I remember seeing her interviewed quite some time later, and her life had become very messy.

I think it takes a certain kind of person to handle fame and fortune successfully.

Full credit to Simon Cowell for having the humility to go public and admit huis attitude has been at fault.

Television personality Simon Cowell admits he made mistakes in handling some of the contestants on Britain's Got Talent, particularly Susan Boyle, the 47-year-old Scottish singing phenom who was hospitalized for exhaustion after failing to win the contest.



"I didn't get into show business to make little children cry or upset a nice lady like Susan Boyle," Cowell writes in The Daily Mail.





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