Opera singer Kiri Te Kanawa has blasted Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle, saying that her success will not last.

Dame Kiri is currently fronting Radio 2′s Kiri Prize, the search for Britain’s next opera star and during a recent interview was outraged to be asked about the rise of Subo.

She told The Sun:

“Let’s get off that subject. Move on.

“I’m doing something classical, not whiz-bang. Whiz-bang disappears. It goes whiz then bang.

“You insult me by wanting to bring it into this conversation.”

Fellow Radio 2 star Elaine Paige famously branded Susan Boyle a ‘virus’ earlier this year. We wonder what they talk about in the staff canteen!