Craig Revel Horwood has turned his caustic tongue on Britain’s Got Talent finalist Susan Boyle.

The Strictly Come Dancing judge said that the singer ‘sucks’ at the opening night of Latin Fever in London, according to the Evening Standard.

Horwood said: “I think Susan Boyle sucks and I’ll tell you why – she can’t sing and that really bugs me. [She] sings as bad as she looks.

“I saw her singing ‘Memory’ and she absolutely mauled it. If Elaine Paige or Andrew Lloyd Webber had seen that performance, if they were dead, they’d be spinning in their graves.”

He added: “It was awful. It had major pitch problems throughout. I could go on and on. And that panel of judges just sits there and says how wonderful she was. I was beside myself. I was wanting to smash the TV.

“I’m hoping people with talent will win, not just the freaks of nature who come out with a little bit of a warble and everyone goes, ‘Wow!’”