Monday, March 10, 2014

Susan Boyle: I still ask about other jobs because I’m afraid I’ll end up poor again. - Article in London's Evening Standard

Susan Boyle: I still ask about other jobs because I’m afraid I’ll end up poor again

Susan Boyle: ' I never really had a lot of money' (Picture: Alex Lentati)
Updated: 10:22, 10 March 2014
Susan Boyle still fears a return to the poverty she suffered before finding fame on Britain’s Got Talent, despite selling 20 million records and topping the charts in more than 30 countries.
Speaking as she prepares to perform in London as part of her first UK solo tour, the 52-year-old Scottish star said worrying about money was normal for her.
“It’s a kind of habit I can’t get out of, to do with my working-class background. I never really had a lot of money,” she said.
Boyle, the daughter of a miner, was regarded as “simple” at school. She said  a recent diagnosis that she in fact had high-functioning autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, had come as “a relief”.
Susan BoyleSusan Boyle: the pop star says she has a desire 'to be normal' (Picture: Alex Lentati)She said one of her biggest fears was her new career ending because showbusiness “can be very fickle” and revealed she had recently inquired about a job advertised in a bookmaker’s shop in the West Lothian town where she grew up and still lives.
“I just went in on the off-chance. It was kind of a desire to be normal. And it was a quiet period. I just got panicky,” she said.
“But I wouldn’t want to scrap the job I already have. I absolutely love it.”
Susan BoyleBig break: Boyle calls Simon Cowell 'shrewd' (Picture: Alex Lentati)With sources suggesting she would be comfortably off if she never worked again, she admitted the big issue would be missing performing. Her return on April 6 to the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith, where she previously played on the BGT tour, comes almost exactly five years since the life-changing moment she astounded the nation with her rendition of I Dreamed A Dream on the TV talent show.
She said she had “no idea at all” of the impact she would make — and said her hair looked “terrible, horrendous” because she was on benefits. “But as I said at the time, never judge a book by the cover,” she added.
 
“I’m grateful to Simon Cowell because he gave me the chance to show what I could do. He’s a great guy, very shrewd. I’d had 12 auditions for television and Britain’s Got Talent was number 12.”


http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/susan-boyle-i-still-ask-about-other-jobs-because-im--afraid-ill-end-up-poor-again-9181108.html

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