hi Luke, our 18 month old son picked up a knife yesterday, "why does he always pick up the dangerous stuff"? asked my wife, as he was picking up a blade of grass ....
maybe only my opinion face, but is the whole program "great telly"? I don't watch this stuff normally, I haven't the time, and did a search for Susan ...
it is good tv for sure - very well produced and entertaining almost all the way through. A lot of people will condemn it for being simple reality tv, but it's a good laugh on a Saturday night.
Why Susan Boyle's success terrifies me The more we praise 'Britain's Got Talent' star Susan Boyle, the more nervous I become. By Becky Pugh
22 Apr 2009
telegraph.co.uk
A star is born. Susan Boyle: a tonic for the nation. Dreams can come true. She has the talent to conquer the world. Simple Susie Superstar. Every time I read a headline lauding Susan Boyle's extraordinary and unlikely gift of a voice, I feel more and more uncomfortable.
I am as much to blame for my sense of unease as the next person. Last week, I rode the crest of the wave with everybody else. I had Boyle's YouTube clip permanently on my screen. I discussed her at length with my friends and colleagues. It was thrilling to see somebody for whom life has dealt so many blows experience a moment of sheer triumph. Her voice was powerful, her song choice poignant, her pride moving.
For once the phrase "overnight sensation" was not just hyperbole. Her performance has grabbed the attention of 100 million YouTube viewers (which, by the way, is 80 million more than Obama's inauguration speech has attracted). Demi Moore was so moved by the voice of the "hairy angel" that she wept. Simon Cowell wants to sign her to his label. She made the front page of The Washington Post. Oprah invited Boyle on to her show. Jay Leno dressed up as her on Saturday Night Live. Piers Morgan asked her out to dinner. Elaine Paige suggested recording a duet with her. The consensus was that the competition is Boyle's.
But a week is a long time in the world of the TV talent show, and the final of Britain's Got Talent will not be on our screens until June. As 12-year-old singer Shaheen Jafargholi proved so startlingly last Saturday, it may all change yet. He set the audience alight with his rendition of the Jackson Five's Who's Lovin' You?, and gave Amanda Holden goose bumps. Cowell thought he was the best youth singer he'd heard in ten years.
With her ghastly frock, wedge of frizzy hair and cowboy-like gait, Susan Boyle surprised us all and has since dipped her toe into the waters of fame. But who knows what other viable talent Britain has up its sleeve. There is still everything for the other contestants to play for. She may have won our hearts, but she hasn't yet won Britain's Got Talent.
If some "exceptionally gifted" whippersnapper does seize the competition from her clutches, what will become of Boyle? I can't help worrying about it. Will Elaine Paige still want to collaborate? Will Simon Cowell see that contract through? Will the US give her another thought? Will this whirlwind of publicity – to which I am contributing even now – have made her any happier?
Back the unemployed spinster will go to her lonely existence in West Lothian, her cat Pebbles and jibes about her appearance. With any luck, she will cheerfully consider this phase a bonus, a delicious dream from which she has now awoken – she does seem to be a buoyant sort of a person. And at least she'll know she tried, for her dead mother and for herself. But the pathos of this woman – whose brother has described her as "a loner… who eventually retreated into her own world" – is more than I can bear to think about. So I won't.
Instead, I'll neurotically glue myself to the television every Saturday night until the final. Odd as it may be, given my strength of feeling on the subject, I have never watched Britain's Got Talent. But I feel compelled to tune in now. I need to size up the competition; better the devil you know, and all that. It is my duty to be on constant Susan-watch, checking, hoping and praying that nobody manages to knock her off the star-spangled perch we've put her on.
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what a patronising article! I'm sure this Susan is more than happy to have done what she's done so far, and if it doesn't go further then she will always be appreciated in her town and much further beyond. Happiness is success and she's already there as far as I can see.
SUSAN Boyle mania shows no sign of letting up – as a doll has now been made of her. An American fan is selling handmade dolls of the 48-year-old virgin online, depicting her pre-makeover, when she first appeared on the show. Mum-of-four Debbie Ritter, from Illinois, creates Susan’s frame using clothes pegs, wire and clay before painting the four inch models and adding a hand-stitched outfit. It’s not known what the 46-year uses to replicate Susan’s wild mop of hair.
Ritter, who confesses to watching Boyle “a thousand times” on YouTube said: “I made this character to commemorate her accomplishment in amazing the world with her talent! It's a lot of work and each doll takes at least a couple of hours. It's more of a hobby than a job for me but I sell them to collectors too. It's painstaking work and you need small fingers. When I first saw Susan on television I just fell in love with her and when I heard her voice I had stars in my eyes.”
She added: “I have watched her video on YouTube literally one thousand times. I love the fact she is so down to earth and there is nothing fake about her. She's a simple woman but I mean that in a very good way.”
Let me just say this. If Susan Boyle had the money that this cuntisaurus Sharon Osbourne has, perhaps she can have a ton of plastic surgery done to look good as did cuntisaurus. Undo all the plastic surgery Sharon Osbourne has had, and she would look like Ozzie's saggy balls. 'nuff said.
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