Michael Bublé has admitted that due to missing Susan Boyle’s first Britain’s Got Talent audition, he didn’t initially understand her appeal.

“I didn’t understand Susan Boyle,” he told the Daily Express. “I was cynical and critical because I had never seen her in that first show where she comes up and says, ‘I want to be a singer’ and the audience looks at her and says, ‘Oh please!’ I got goosebumps.”

“I’m going to go when this record comes out and buy 20 copies… because what a beautiful story of an underdog. It gives me faith in the human condition that we still have that kind of feeling that we actually want the good guy to win.

“It killed me. It really is a beautiful, beautiful story.”