Why do some people say the talent show exploited Susan Boyle?
Britain’s Got Talent judge Amanda Holden has denied the show exploited Susan Boyle, saying she was “stressed out” by “falsehoods” written about her. Holden told the Larry King Live show in the US that all acts who appeared were “extraordinarily well looked after”. Singer Boyle, the runner-up in this year’s show, is being treated for exhaustion at London’s Priory Clinic. Simon Cowell’s spokesman Max Clifford said the singer, who is due to go on tour next week, was “recovering well”. Global attention Boyle, 48, from West Lothian, was taken to the clinic on Sunday – 24 hours after after she came second to dance act Diversity in the final of the ITV1 show. Sources: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8080598.
her in the middle of a highly rated television show. Tonight’s the night. After a fevered few weeks of Youtube hits and Oprah interviews and makeovers, tears and tantrums, Susan Boyle will take a deep breath and sing for the public’s votes in the final of Britain’s Got Talent. Ever since that remarkable audition in April when she surprised the judges of the ITV show with a dramatic performance of I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miserables, the 48-year-old from Blackburn in West Lothian has been the favourite to win. It’s been good for ITV, good for prime-time entertainment and certainly good for Simon Cowell, but now questions are being raised about how good it has been for Boyle. advertisement Yesterday, the producers insisted their star was getting the support she needed following reports that she had packed her bags and was struggling to cope. Judge Piers Morgan admitted that Boyle was finding it difficult. “She has been in tears many times during the last few days,” he said, “and even,
