In The Sun - SB wants to find a Man - Kissed J Cosmo as Eleanor Hopewell in movie

Susan Boyle: I really want to find myself a man ... I kissed James on camera and it was lovely

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Singer says she wants a hubby after enjoying on-screen snog

Film star ... Susan Boyle

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By STUART PINK, Showbiz Reporter

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SUSAN Boyle got a taste of married life while filming her new movie — and enjoyed it so much she’s now on the hunt for a REAL husband.

The singer and her co-star James Cosmo had to kiss for a scene in her debut flick The Christmas Candle, in which they play husband and wife.

And though Susan’s always been single in reality, that could be about to change — as she feels it’s time to start dating.

Susan, who kicks off her first ever live tour tomorrow night in Inverness, said: “I want to find a man but it’s hard with all the travelling I do. I really want to start going on dates and I’ve asked my friends to set me up with a good man — if they can find one. I’d like to settle down one day.”

Susan, 52, was originally only meant to be performing on the film’s soundtrack but was asked if she wanted to make a cameo.

Producers were then so impressed with her acting ability they gave her a bigger role — church warden’s wife Eleanor Hopewell.

And that wasn’t the only surprise — as she has a kissing scene with fellow Scot and Braveheart star James, 65. Susan said: “I have my very first husband — which is very exciting. It’s been a long wait.

“I had to kiss him, too, as we had a kissing scene. It was my first on-screen kiss. It was lovely.

“I didn’t know about the kissing scene when I signed up, but I wasn’t complaining.

“I won’t take this any further in case I embarrass him.”

Screen idol ... Susan Boyle with co-star James Cosmo on the set of The Christmas Candle

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Should Susan continue her movie career, there’s another man she wouldn’t mind sharing an on-screen kiss with. But it’s a pity he’s more into making albums than films. ‘SuBo sounds like a Brazil footballer’ Susan explained: “Gary Barlow — now there’s a man. I think he’s really cute.”

But the Take That star may lose Brownie points if he ever refers to Susan by her nickname SuBo.

She added: “It makes me sound like a Brazilian footballer.

“I don’t really mind it. But my friends and family call me Susan Boyle. I prefer that.”

Susan was speaking at the Sofitel London Heathrow hotel ahead of a lucrative concert in Moscow where she shared the bill with the Jacksons and Earth Wind and Fire.

It was handy preparation for her live tour which features six sold-out shows in Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh after tomorrow’s Inverness gig.

All going well, the tour should expand globally, giving Susan the opportunity to reach untapped parts of her giant fanbase.

She’s been itching to go on the road for years but was told to be patient.

Susan said: “I’m very excited, it’s long overdue. I’ve been on at my manager for some time to let me go live. He kept telling me, ‘You’re not ready yet,’ but this time he feels I am.

“It’s something you gradually get yourself accustomed to. I’ve only been doing this for four years. You just can’t dive in at the deep end.

“These things have to be done in a special way. It’s sensible, really.”

Susan will be performing tracks from her four albums as well as a number of new covers.

She let slip an Adele single will feature on her 24-song set list, as well as Tina Turner’s up-tempo River Deep.

Dream man ... Susan's on-screen husband James Cosmo in Braveheart

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The tour will also have extra significance after the death of her brother James in May.

He’ll be at the front of her thoughts tonight in Inverness, as well as her mum who inspired her to break into the music industry.

Susan said: “I like to think he’s going to be behind me, as with my sister and mother and father.”

The star feels she’s in top shape for her upcoming gigs — mainly thanks to giving up chocolate.

She said: “I eat a lot of fruit and cut out the sweets. I’ve had to for dietary reasons. I don’t want a bum like a garage. It’s for my own health. I have a very sweet tooth, I love chocolate.”

Susan’s first ever live tour caps an amazing few years for the singer from Blackburn, West Lothian. She’s sold 19 million albums, topped the charts in over 30 countries and racked up a £20million fortune since her version of I Dreamed A Dream from her Britain’s Got Talent audition in 2009 became a gobal internet sensation.

She believes entering the industry in her senior years was a blessing but stresses she’s not the sort to “throw TVs out hotel windows”.

She said: “If I’d gone into the business at 18, it probably wouldn’t have done us much good because I wasn’t very mature then.

“In your 40s, you’re allegedly better at handling it so it came at the right time I think.”

The singer is still grateful to Simon Cowell for giving her a break after BGT. And she’s backed the music mogul after he was pelted with eggs by ex-contestant Natalie Holt on the last series’ final last month for his supposed harsh treatment of his non-pop acts.

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The violinist claimed Simon left the likes of Susan and classical duo Jonathan and Charlotte on the scrapheap.

‘You get pushy parents on BGT’ Susan hit back, saying: “Left me on the scrapheap? I’ve yet to see it because Simon’s been nothing but good to me. She’s been talking a lot of baloney. Simon Cowell has been fantastic to me. I’m not on the scrapheap as far as he’s concerned. He’s a fantastic guy.”

Although she backs Cowell over egg-gate, Susan’s not a supporter of the ITV show’s insistence on featuring young contestants.

This year’s final 11 acts were all youngsters, such as Welsh dance act Pre-Skool, whose members were aged between five and eight.

And Susan feels their parents should be held accountable.

She said: “You get some very pushy parents on there. They think the kids have got the mental maturity to handle it, but their education should come first. Pre-Skool were far too young.

“When I was at acting school, I saw a lot of kids don’t have a sense of having their own childhood. “I believe in having a childhood first, then they can fulfil their dreams afterwards.”

She’s knows all about that.

stuart.pink@the-sun.co.uk

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Posted in Express - After 4 Years SB Is Set To Hit The Road

After four years of fame Susan Boyle is set to hit the road

LIKE thousands of other Scots she spent Friday night watching tennis ace Andy Murray soar into the second week of Wimbledon from the comfort of her modest council house.

By: Greg Christison

Published: Sun, June 30, 2013

Susan Boyle has not felt ready to tour in the past

But singing sensation and tennis fan Susan Boyle yesterday insisted that she will be the one having a ball when she kick-starts her first ever live tour later this week.

The 52-year-old - affectionately nicknamed SuBo by her dedicated following - has virtually sold out all shows on her seven night stint which will begin in Inverness on Tuesday evening.

And she promised she would have surprises in store for anyone expecting her to belt out ballads.

"I'm feeling very excited about my first live tour," Susan, from Blackburn, in West Lothian, admitted.

"I have been wanting to do this for a long time.

"I don't think I was ready before, now I feel that I can give the audience what they want. It's the first time I've done a full show with 24 songs and I just can't wait to step on stage and show people my repertoire.

"I think they will be surprised - there are some great numbers in there and I hope that they will be up on their feet dancing. I think I'm going to show them that I'm not just the Queen of ballads - I can definitely rock with the best of them."

Susan, who was catapulted to stardom on ITV's Britain's Got Talent show in 2009, has performed for the Pope and taken to the stage alongside some of the world's greatest musicians.

Her rendition of Les Miserables tune I Dreamed a Dream during the auditions became a global hit turning the shy spinster into an overnight superstar.

But, despite amassing a worldwide following of millions during her four-year career, the former church volunteer has, until recently, felt unable to hit the road alone as she has struggled to cope with her newfound fame.

I have been wanting to do this for a long time

Susan Boyle

"This, for me, was never about increasing popularity or earning money, that doesn't interest me," she continued. "Anyone who has followed me over the past four years knows I still live in my family home which I grew up in.

"I couldn't have done this without the constant encouragement and support from not only friends and family, but the strangers I bump into in Scotland.

"This is to say thank you to all of them for being there in the best way I know possible, singing."

Thousands of fans - who will pack venues in Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh - will be treated to a hit-packed 90-minute set, including covers of Tina Turner and Adele songs. She will also be joined on stage by Lance Ellington - the singer on the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing - and a choir from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Susan, who says she is especially looking forward to experiencing life on the tour bus, has spent months rehearsing for the series of concerts and admits that memorising lyrics and bringing the performance together has not been easy.

Asked how she winds down after a hard day in front of the microphone, Susan quipped: "Relaxing? What's that? I'm just kidding, I've been so focused on making this perfect that even when I'm home I'm constantly practising.

"I'll have plenty of time to relax after this has finished, but I'm still partial to a good cup of tea and a spot of television.

"Catching up on Wimbledon is what I've been doing the past few evenings."

And if all goes well, Susan insisted that a worldwide tour could be in the pipeline. "Without a shadow of a doubt," she smiled. "Vegas here I come."

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/411325/After-four-years-of-fame-Susan-Boyle-is-set-to-hit-the-road

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In The Daily Record - SB Can't Wait To Hit The Road... as she rehearses for Scottish tour

• By Brian McIver

Susan Boyle tells why she can't wait to hit the road as she rehearses for upcoming Scottish tour

29 May 2013 00:01

THE Scots singer says performing with Donny Osmond earlier this year inspired her to set dates for a live Scottish tour.

Rehearsals get underway in Glasgow for Susan Boyle's live show

Daily Record

SHE’S been a talent show star and a YouTube sensation.
She’s played for the Pope and belted out the greats with the greats.

And now, for the first time, Susan Boyle is hitting the road with a 90-minute live show – taking in five venues and seven gigs.

On a rain-soaked Glasgow afternoon, I join her in the rehearsal studio as she gets down to work with her six-piece backing band.

And it’s clear the phenomenon nicknamed SuBo can’t wait to get out on stage.

During a break in proceedings, I watch as she larks about with the band’s instruments.

For a laugh, the band strike up the Pink Panther theme. Instantly, the world’s most famous singing Scot has us all in stitches as she picks up the beat and starts dancing round the room.

Clearly, she’s full of beans.

Susan, 52, says, “I feel I’m in the zone and ready for it. In fact, I’m more than ready.

“It’s very important to be accepted in your own homeland though, and I do feel accepted in my homeland. I’m definitely doing the tour, there’s no maybes about it.

“I sang with Donny Osmond in March this year and it was around that time I started to think I was ready and made my mind up to do more live work. I got a real taste for it.

“It all feels a bit surreal but I can get used to anything.”

And as if to prove the point, she treats us to an impromptu rendition of I Dreamed a Dream – the song that catapulted her to fame four years ago.

There’s no TV audience and no judges this time. But the effect is no less awesome.

It’s hardly news that Susan can sing, but experiencing the full feeling and power at close quarters is something special.

She feels as if she is in the form of her life and, on this evidence, she’s absolutely right.

Susan Boyle has a practice on the drums during a break in her rehearsal

Daily Record

 After four mega-selling albums, the nervous singer of Britain’s Gone Talent fame is gone – this is a performer brimming with confidence.

Yet, modest as ever, she refers to herself still as a “wee wifie from Blackburn”. She says: “I feel very privileged and lucky to be able to do this and as long as the public want me, I’ll be here.”

Now she’s gracing theatres she had to pay to get into a few years ago. Susan says: “I used to go into Edinburgh a lot to catch musicals at the Festival Theatre, it’s very big.

“I could never have imagined I’d be playing there one day. I never thought I’d ever get this far.” It matters to Susan that this, her first tour, is seven dates in Scotland. She says: “You have to have your family and friends around you, that’s very important.”

The Boyle clan will play a big part in her tour with sisters, brothers, nieces, nephews and cousins all attending at least one gig.

The tour will be poignant, as the family are still mourning the death of her brother James earlier this month.

Susan says: “I like to think he’ll be there with me though, he’s always with me. We’re a very close family and stick together.

“I think he would be very proud and full of encouragement for what I’m doing.”

The Susan of old might have been fretting about the tour. But not now.

She explains: “You must have that ability to switch off the ordinariness and go into professional mode, get in the zone and I think I’m a lot better at that now than I used to be.

“You need to be able to switch off from all your worries, leave them behind, go away and enjoy yourself.”

The set list is a secret for the time being. “It’s been a process of elimination – some things work, some things don’t.

“The only thing I’ve ruled out are rock numbers – I’m not a rock chick and don’t even have the big hair.”

It’s not just the tour which has her excited.

Susan Boyle at rehearsals in Glasgow ahead of her forthcoming tour.

Daily Record

Susan makes her film debut this year with a moving period drama in which she sings several original songs.

At the same time, work continues on the big budget movie based on her life story. Then there’s work on her fifth studio album.

And she’s delighted to have adopted a lemur at Five Sisters Zoo – the West Lothian animal park devastated by fire last month. She’s thinking of calling it SuBo.

Susan will also be helping out at the Special Olympics this summer. “I like to be able to help and I hope to go down to Bath in August as an ambassador and maybe sing for them.”

Her acting debut will be A Christmas Candle, where she stars alongside fellow Scots like James Cosmo, John Hannah and Sylvester McCoy in a festive tale.

She said: “That was great fun, we filmed it in March and I think it’s out in November. It was hard work, but I really enjoyed it.

“I tell you though, those costumes were really tight, I was turning blue. It was cold and the dress was not very well insulated either so I had to use a hot water bottle.”

That’s Susan for you – global megastar but as down to earth as ever. One of her co-stars in A Christmas Candle is Samantha Barks, Eponine in the big screen version of Les Miserables.

Producer Cameron Mackintosh said the film would never have happened if Susan had not sung the anthem I Dreamed a Dream on BGT.

Mackintosh said: “The touchpaper was lit by Susan Boyle. When she sang I Dreamed a Dream it crossed a boundary. A tune that had been lurking there for years started connecting with people in a non-theatrical way.”

And Oscar-winner Anne Hathaway, whose character Fantine sings the number, hailed Susan as “wonderful and adorable”.

The woman herself blushes at such incredible praise when I mention it and is lost for words for a moment.

But she does admit that I Dreamed a Dream is one song that’s a definite for the tour. And with that, the superstar is back to work.

“I feel I’m ready enough now,” she says over her shoulder, “and I want to share it all with other people.”

Susan Boyle plays the Eden Court Theatre, Inverness, on Tuesday, July 2; Music Hall, Aberdeen, July 4; Caird Hall, Dundee, July 6; King’s Theatre, Glasgow, July 8 and 9; Edinburgh Festival Theatre, July 12 and 13.

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity-interviews/singing-sensation-susan-boyle-tells-1918486

Once Again: Susan Boyle and Laura Boyd in a fun duet!!

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Posted in thetele.co.uk Evening Telegraph.- SB Caird Hall Thank You

Susan Boyle’s Caird Hall concert ‘a thank you to the fans’

By KATIE PAVID, 29 June 2013 11.00am.

• Susan Boyle's Caird Hall concert is a sell-out.PA

She won the hearts of the nation, became an overnight sensation, and sold more than 19 million albums.

And now singing phenomenon Susan Boyle has told the Tele how excited she is to be coming to Dundee to perform.

Part of her first live tour, she is due to play a sell-out concert in the city’s Caird Hall on July 6.

She said: “Last year was the last time I performed in Dundee, when I came here for a musical.

“The crowd were so friendly, perceptive and supportive. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I can’t wait to play again.

“I came up to Dundee for visits when I was younger, that was a long time ago!

“I imagine it has changed a lot over the years. My mum used to drive us up for trips out and I’ve got happy memories, I loved the city.

“I want to entertain people — I just want people to come down and enjoy themselves — and I will try to make it rock.

“There will be songs from my latest album and maybe some things they haven’t heard yet as well. There will be something for everyone.”

Susan admits that she found fame hard to handle at first, but now she is enjoying the chances she gets to perform before a home crowd.

She said: “Of course my favourite place to perform is Scotland. Touring here is a thank you for everything the people here have done for me and all the support I have got.

“Success is sitting better on my shoulders now, I find it easier to talk to the media.

“I still like spending time in Scotland and in Blackburn with my family, it’s important to stay grounded amongst the tours.

“Being here helps me to do that — it’s good to get back to reality.”

The 52-year-old shot to fame with her appearance in front of the judges on Britain’s Got Talent in April 2009, singing I Dreamed A Dream from Les Miserables.

Her debut album, also called I Dreamed A Dream, instantly became the UK’s best-selling debut album of all time.

Her net worth is put at around £22 million.

The seven date tour is Susan’s first full solo set of performances.

She was confident the show will go down a storm with loyal audiences.

She said: “I like to do things in a measured way. It remains to be seen how this tour and my future projects go, but I’m excited.

“Singing with others, including Donny Osmond last year, inspired me to do the live shows myself.

“My family cannot wait to see me play here. They will hopefully be attending on all the nights, including Dundee. They are so supportive.”

The tour kicks off in Inverness on Tuesday, and also takes in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh through July.

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Susan Boyle ‘excited’ ahead of Scottish concerts

Scottish singer Susan Boyle. Picture: Contributed

By BRIAN FERGUSON
Published on 29/06/2013 00:14

SUSAN Boyle has promised her fans “plenty of surprises” as she embarks on her first full live shows next week.

The Britain’s Got Talent star insisted she is “more excited than nervous” about taking to the stage.

Speaking to The Scotsman ahead of appearing in Inverness next week, she revealed she hopes to take her new production on tour overseas if the “pilot” shows go well.

She admitted she saw the initial run of seven shows as “baby steps” and that she had not felt ready to perform full live performances before now.

Boyle has had extensive vocal training to help her prepare for the shows, which will also take in Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Promoters say her performances will have her army of fans “dancing in the aisles”. She will appear with a full backing band, including a pianist, a string section and a choir made up of musical theatre students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, in Glasgow.

Four years after shooting to fame after a famous TV audition, now seen by more than 120 million people on YouTube, the woman dubbed “SuBo” broke off from rehearsals in Glasgow to speak about the brief tour.

She will appear alongside Lance Ellington, a session singer who has previously worked with stars such as Sting, George Michael and Tina Turner, and also makes regular appearances on Strictly Come Dancing.

It will see her appear in four different costumes to perform some of the most popular songs from her four albums, including I Dreamed a Dream, the song that made her world-famous, Wild Horses, Somewhere Over the Rainbow and River Deep, Mountain High.

She said: “I’ve been rehearsing in Glasgow for around a month now. It’s been pretty hard work, but also really enjoyable. I’d say I was excited and nervous about going on tour, but more excited than nervous.

“I think most artists get a bit nervous before they go on stage, but you just have to work through them.

“It is a big undertaking, but I feel I’m ready for it now. There will be lots of songs people will recognise in the shows, but plenty of surprises in there as well and other songs that people probably won’t know at all.”

Despite selling 19 million albums and topping the charts in more than 30 countries, she has only made brief live appearances in the UK and overseas.

She revealed that it was getting the chance to perform with her childhood idol Donny ­Osmond that had persuaded her to embark on a full tour.

“I felt ready after performing with Donny Osmond earlier this year,” she said. “I appeared with him on stage in various shows, including in Las Vegas. He was my favourite singer when I younger.”

She added: “I felt it would be better to build up a catalogue of work on the albums before doing a full concert.

“I’d definitely like to do more shows later on, maybe overseas, but it’s very much baby steps for me at the moment. If someone had told me three or four years ago I’d be doing a tour like this, I’d have told them I wasn’t ready, I’d have turned it down.

“But I’ve had a lot of help since then from the record company and my voice coach and I feel a lot more confident now.”

Ms Boyle still lives in her council house in Blackburn, West Lothian, despite buying a bigger property elsewhere in the area.

She shot to fame in April 2009 after her TV audition, which was filmed several months earlier at the SECC in Glasgow, was 
broadcast.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/arts/susan-boyle-excited-ahead-of-scottish-concerts-1-2983107

Posted on Susan Boyle's Official Site - IDAD Top 4 Albums on Amazon

I Dreamed A Dream: Top 4 Albums of all time on Amazon!

28th June 2013

This week marks a wonderful milestone in Susan’s career as her debut album ‘I Dreamed A Dream’ has been named the 4th biggest selling album of all time on Amazon! When the album was released in the winter of 2009 Susan was moved by the overwhelming support for the record from her loyal following of fans across the world. 

It’s now four years on from the amazing reception to her debut album and Susan is currently hard at work in the studio recording brand new music as well as preparing for her upcoming live concert tour of Scotland. Susan took a few moments break from rehearsal to give the below message to all her fans for their support in reaction to the news. 

“I’m so honoured by the wonderful news about my debut album being one of Amazon’s top four biggest selling albums of all time. Such fantastic news. It is an album that will always be so very close to my heart as it changed my life in many wonderful ways and gave me so many opportunities. I hope you will all enjoy my 5th album just as much” 


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Posted in The Scottish Sun

Susan Boyle: Movie of my life won’t be Hollywood fluff

Homing in ... Susan Boyle with her platinum discs

By MATT BENDORIS
Chief Feature Writer

Published: 21st November 2012

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SUSAN BOYLE is relaxing on the sofa in her humble ex-council house — talking about a multi-million-dollar deal for a Hollywood movie about her life.

The West Lothian singer barely bats an eyelid as she reveals the next chapter of her amazing life story.

SuBo has just returned from the States, where she put pen to paper on the deal with movie giants Fox Searchlight.

Filming begins next year on the gritty, warts-and-all biopic which the Scot promises won’t contain any “Hollywood fluff”.

The 51-year-old Britain’s Got Talent star has been given full creative control of the project and will even help select the actress who will play her.

Screen greats Glenn Close and Julie Walters have already been tipped for the leading role.

But the singer says a clause in the megabucks contract means she will be shadowed around her home in Blackburn by the mystery A-lister. Susan says: “The casting has yet to be done.

“We’re currently at the stage of selecting a big Hollywood producer and writer.

“But I’ve been told I can expect to have a shadow as the actress researches the role — so I hope she likes Blackburn.”

While Susan doesn’t know who’ll be slipping into her shoes just yet, she does fancy heart-throb George Clooney for the part of her London-based manager Andy Stephens.

She laughs: “George has grey hair too, although that’d be wishful thinking on my part.

“But it’s Hollywood — anything can happen. We’ll see.”

Susan casually delivers the stunning piece of showbiz news sitting in the cramped front room of her family home.

She simply refuses to budge from this modest gaff no matter how much her fortune — currently estimated at £22million and growing — swells from her 18million record sales.

Hit ... SuBo with her new album

Her label boss Simon Cowell hates it — branding it as just “that house” after it was broken into in January 2010.

The music mogul insisted his prize asset move into a £400,000 five-bedroom villa nearby.

But Susan rarely steps foot in the “posh house”, admitting she feels more comfortable in the semi-detached home she lived in with her late parents Patrick and Bridget.

She says: “Simon wanted me out because I was having various problems. That’s what the new posh house was all about.

“But this is my sanctuary, where I can be myself and just watch the telly and listen to music. It also helps me to keep grounded.

“It’s like living a double life. There’s Susan, who lives in Blackburn and no one bothers about — then there’s the singer Susan Boyle.” Like the singer, SuBo’s ‘sanctuary’ has had a major makeover since she shot to world-wide fame on the ITV1 talent show in 2009.

The back and front gardens have been neatly landscaped, while her famous white PVC front door — which the star was snapped outside countless times — has been replaced by a bespoke wooden one.

Susan laughs: “That old door was as famous as Downing Street at one point.

“When I got it replaced it was thrown in a skip outside — then the next day it went missing.

“I kept expecting to see someone trying to sell Susan Boyle’s door on eBay. Best of luck to them if they did.”

The mantelpiece in her front room is adorned by framed poems sent to her by adoring fans.

She smiles: “They’re a very creative bunch.”

The devout Catholic has a ‘holy corner’ with crucifixes and a portrait of the Virgin Mary, with an old photo of her folks, taken when they were in their mid-20s.

There’s also a snap of Susan with funnyman Peter Kay, from their 2011 Comic Relief No1 single I Know Him So Well.

But the cosy room is dominated by a giant Samsung flat-screen TV, on which Susan enjoys keeping up to date with the trials and tribulations of I’m A Celebrity.

She laughs: “I wouldn’t last two minutes in that jungle. The first time a bug landed on me I’d be like, ‘Get me out of here’.”

Susan also loves watching her beloved team Celtic.

She says: “I was at Parkhead sitting behind Paolo Nutini when we beat Barcelona 2-1.

“All through injury time I was begging the referee to blow for full-time.

“But I wasn’t crying like Rod Stewart after the game. I was just so excited. It was a great night.”

SuBo has yet to meet tartan rocker Rod — but she knows exactly what she’d ask him.

She says: “I’d love to do a duet with him even though Rod is very rocky.

“So it’d need to be a song that’s a bit more gentle. I’m not ready for the leather trousers just yet.”

Susan needed to convert a bedroom into a walk-in trophy cabinet to house all the gold and platinum discs celebrating her millions of record sales, alongside fans’ oil paintings of the Scot, and the walls of her hall are covered by beautiful watercolours from the brush of her artistic mum, who died in 2007, aged 91.

Her ex-miner dad Patrick — who was also an accomplished singer — passed away in 1990, aged 80.

Susan — the youngest of nine — says: “We Boyles always were a talented lot.”

The star still gets on average 150 letters and packages a week from around the world. Some are simply addressed to: Susan Boyle, Singer, Scotland.

Somehow they find her. But along with the poems and portraits, there are also some very strange requests.

She explains: “I get asked to sing at hundreds of weddings and even funerals. They want me to do Wild Horses, bizarrely.

“The strangest though was a sock with a hole I got through the post with a letter asking me to mend it.

“I don’t know what sort of service they thought I was providing.”

Behind the scenes, Susan is known as a ‘one-take wonder’ in the recording studio.

So much so she finished her latest album Standing Ovation, The Greatest Songs From The Stage, an incredible SIX WEEKS early.

The album, released this week, is currently sitting at No5 in the midweek chart.

She says: “I’m in a bubble when I sing. I always try to remember the lyrics as I don’t want to waste people’s time.”

Next spring she’ll begin her first mini tour, while the musical about her life story, I Dreamed A Dream, will be premiered in Australia in June.

Along with signing her secret movie deal in the States last week, Susan hit the chat show circuit where she bumped into movie legend Robert De Niro TWICE in two days. Susan quips: “The first time he came over and just said hello.

“The second time I told him to stop stalking me.”

She also splashed out £10,000 on Christmas pressies at posh New York jewellers Tiffany.

But she’s very coy when it comes to her personal fortune, joking: “Money? Who said I had any money?”

Although she did admit on Graham Norton’s Radio 2 show at the weekend she has so much, she can’t spend it.

Susan says: “Look, it’s true I don’t have any worries any more and wouldn’t need to work again.

“But I love what I do. It doesn’t even feel like work.

“I’m also so relaxed now. I’ve mellowed a lot because at first I was a bit harum-scarum.”

She adds: “Three years ago there’s no way I could imagine my life story would be interesting enough to make into a movie.

“I guess it was a surprise when I showed the world I could sing on Britain’s Got Talent.

“Now my whole life has turned into one big surprise.”

Susan Boyle’s fourth album, Standing Ovation, The Greatest Songs From The Stage, is out now.

matt.bendoris@the-sun.co.uk

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Fox Searchlight To Develop Susan Boyle Story Based On Musical ‘I Dreamed A Dream’

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Friday, 23 November 2012 14:45 UKTags: Fox Searchlight

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Fox Searchlight has acquired the life rights toBritain’s Got Talent sensation Susan Boyle along with rights to the UK musical I Dreamed A Dreamthat’s based on her story. The plan is to combine the two to develop a re-imagined filmed version of the musical. Lucas Webb, who pursued the project for Searchlight out of London, tells me the aspiration is to do “a sensitive and honest biopic infused with music.” It’s early stages and no director or screenwriter has been attached, but the project is “front and center,” says Webb.

Boyle’s Britain’s Got Talent audition in 2009, singing the Les Misérables lament I Dreamed A Dream, catapulted her to overnight Internet stardom. Her first album that same year became the best-selling UK debut record of all time. A jukebox musical, I Dreamed A Dream is produced by Michael Harrison and spans Boyle’s life from infancy in a working class town in northern Scotland through to how she learned to deal with the onset of sudden international fame. I Dreamed A Dream started its regional UK tour in March this year to strong reviews and will transfer to Australia next year before heading to the West End.

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