Doctors have suggested the troubled Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle could be in hospital for weeks and not days as her brother suggested.

Boyle was escorted to the north London centre on Sunday night, after having a bit of a breakdown following Saturday’s live final.

Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, the clinic’s chief medical officer Chris Thompson insisted that the Priory was “not a rest home and not a spa. It is a psychiatric hospital”.

“I cannot talk specifically about Susan Boyle but any admission to a psychiatric hospital for a matter of days is, in my opinion, a failed admission because either it was unnecessary in the first place or the job hasn’t been done fully.”

He also admitted that if Boyle had been assessed under the Mental Health Act, as has been reported, it implied “compulsory admission”.

“It implies there was a degree of personal risk,” he explained. “Secondarily that implies she did not want to come into hospital voluntarily.”