Despite her recent newfound wealth, Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle has insisted that she won’t be moving to a posh new house.

Susan currently lives in a small council house in Blackburn, Scotland and when she gets her first royalty cheque next week, she won’t be splashing out on a new pad, instead she’ll buy the £80,000 house from her local council.

Boyle told the News of the World: “I don’t want to be moving an inch away from my family, and Pebbles doesn’t want to move.

“She’s lived there all her life and cats hate upping sticks.

“I’m the wee wifey with the mop and the cat next door. It’s what keeps me grounded – remembering I am just that wifey. And Pebbles would hate to live anywhere posh.”

Britain’s Got Talent stars Stavros Flatley will be back on your TV screens this autumn, this time on BBC cookery show Ready Steady Cook.

Who will win the cooking challenge, Big Papa or Shimmying Son? Leave your comments below.

Susan Boyle’s debut album I Dreamed a Dream has broken all previous records and achieved the largest global CD pre-orders in the history of Amazon.

The Britain’s Got Talent star, who will appear on this weekend’s X Factor, broke the record set by Japanese rock group Mr Children’s Supermarket Fantasy in 2008.

“Just eight months ago, no-one was aware of the talents of Susan Boyle. Now, she has generated more Amazon pre-order CD sales globally than any other artist,” Julian Monaghan said.

“That is an incredible achievement and is testament to the fact that she has captured the hearts of people all over Britain, America and the rest of the world.”

Columbia Records Chairman Steve Barnett added: “One of the things that is so unique about Susan Boyle is her ability to touch people around the world. We’re excited that I Dreamed A Dream holds the new record for global pre-orders and that Amazon’s customers have supported her album in this way.”

Britain’s Got Talent runner up Susan Boyle, has admitted that she auditioned for the show as part of a promise she made to her late mother.

The 48 year old told The Sun:

“I had promised my mum I would do something with my life just before she died – that I’d do something with my singing. So I applied for Britain’s Got Talent.”

Susan added: “We’d seen a soloist singing on the TV just before she passed and I said, ‘Is that what you want me to do, Mum?’

“She said, ‘Yes.’ She had a good belief that I could do it. So I decided to do something about it.

“I couldn’t straight away because the bereavement hit me hard.

Susan will sing her new single ‘Wild Horses’ on X Factor this Sunday night.

Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle has admitted that she was tormented by her teachers as a child and was a victim of their violence every day.

In an interview with The Mirror Susan admitted”You’re looking at someone who would get the belt every day… ‘Will you shut up, Susan!’ – whack!”

She continued: “I was often left behind at school because of one thing or another. I was a slow learner. I’m just a wee bit slower at picking things up than other people. So you get left behind in a system that just wants to rush on, you know? That was what I felt was happening to me.”

She added: “There was discipline for the sake of discipline back then. But it’s all very different now. I think teachers are taught to understand children with learning disabilities a lot better.”

“There’s nothing worse than another person having power over you by bullying you and you not knowing how to get rid of that thing.”

Susan will be performing her new single ‘Wild Horses’ on this weekend’s X Factor show.

Former X Factor judge Sharon Osbourne, has apologised for laughing at Susan Boyle and saying that God had hit her with the ugly stick.

Sharon wrote on her Twitter page: “Susan Boyle is a lovely gracious woman and I took advantage of that by poking fun at her.

“I would never want to be responsible for hurting Susan and I must apologise for getting a cheap laugh at her expense.”

You can watch the video of Sharon mocking Susan here.

Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle has her very own stalker!

The singer, who has become famous all over the world, has been followed by a middle aged American woman and the last straw came when she showed up at Susan’s Scottish home this week. The woman was intercepted by a security guard, but after the recent assault on Leona Lewis, Simon Cowell has ordered extra security coverage for Subo.

A source told The Sun: “Simon is not taking any chances.

“This woman is constantly following Susan around the world. It is a middle-aged American woman who has become obsessed with her.

“At first, people thought it was no more than a nuisance. But after what happened to Leona everyone is taking extra precautions.

“This is an important month for Susan and everyone wants it to go smoothly.”

Sharon Osbourne has mocked Britain’s Got Talent singer Susan Boyle and said that she looks like a “slapped a**e”.

In an interview with Sirius XM Radio, Osbourne commented: “I like everybody to do well. Even somebody that looks like a slapped a**e. God bless her. It’s like, ‘You go girl’. She does look like a hairy a**ehole.”

She continued: “[God] gave her the talent. Yes he did. [And] he hit her with a f**king ugly stick.”

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.”

Britain’s Got Talent star Faryl Smith, is set to sing a duet with dead opera star, Luciano Pavarotti.

The Sun reports that Pavarotti’s vocals have been added to a recording of Oh Holy Night, sang by the 14 year old singer.

A source said: “Faryl is thrilled – she never thought she’d get the chance to sing with Pavarotti and now she has.

“The technology is note-perfect and it sounds as if they’re really there together.”

Faryl’s second album will be out on November 30th.

A source added: “X Factor has been Christmas No1 for years and it will take something really special to challenge it, but this could be it.

“Pavarotti was a huge name and Faryl is a rising star. It’s a perfect combination.”