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Michael Bublé didn’t understand the hype surrounding Susan Boyle

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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.”

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ITV to air ‘An Audience With Susan Boyle’

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Susan Boyle has reportedly been signed up for a ITV Christmas special this December.

The News Of The World reports that the Britain’s Got Talent star will host ‘An Audience With Susan Boyle’ for the channel.

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Susan Boyle takes up boxing to de-stress

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Britain’s Got Talent star, Susan Boyle, has reportedly taken up boxing to keep fit and de-stress.

The Sun reports that Susan’s pal took her to a local boxing class in Scotland, where she fell in love with the sport.

One said: “Susan has been pretty stressed out by the whole worldwide fame thing and needed something to get her head straight.

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Track Listings revealed for Susan Boyle’s Album ‘I Dreamed A Dream’

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Susan Boyle has revealed the tracklisting for her debut album I Dreamed a Dream.

The album will be released in the UK on November 23, just in time for the Christmas market.

Boyle said: “It was my greatest ambition to release an album and I have finally achieved it.

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JLS say X Factor is too similar to Britain’s Got Talent

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JLS have expressed their dislike for the new X Factor format, saying that it is too similar to Britain’s Got Talent.

“I watched it and expected to get a weird feeling because we were there a year ago, but I didn’t. It’s a completely different show now,” Aston Merrygold told Gay Times.

“It’s too much like Britain’s Got Talent now,” Ortise Williams added.

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Stavros Flatley raking in £200,000 a week

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Britain’s Got Talent stars Stavros Flatley are raking in £200,000 per week since appearing on the show in June.

Th father and son act are in big demand and regularly perform at four gigs a day, charging £10,000 a time.

A source told Th Sun: “Stavros have performed all over the UK.

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Simon Cowell: ‘Susan Boyle was staggeringly good’

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Simon Cowell was very impressed by Susan Boyle’s performance on America’s Got Talent last week, saying that she was ’staggeringly good.’

The Britain’s Got Talent judge told The Mirror:

“I thought her performance was staggeringly good and I felt amazingly proud of her. It hasn’t been easy for her as we all know.

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Diversity: Perri falls in front of Gordon Brown

Poor little Perri Luc Kiely. His dance group, Diversity, were invited to perform for Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday and in the midst of their performance he backflipped, then fell.

Mr Brown looked on in disbelief as the 13 year old collapsed in fits of tears, probably more embarrassed than hurt, and had to be comforted by his team mates.

A spokesman for the group said Perri was “absolutely fine, just a bit shocked”.

Listen to ‘Wild Horses’ Susan Boyle’s First Single….WOW!

If you click on the play button above you can listen to Susan Boyle’s new single ‘Wild Horses’, from her debut album ‘I Dreamed A Dream.’

Susan will perform the song live, for the first time, on this week’s final of America’s Got Talent and that is one Youtube clip I am looking forward to watching.

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Susan Boyle will appear on America’s Got Talent

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Susan Boyle is jetting off to America next week to make an appearance on America’s Got Talent.

Susan, who has never been to The States before, was fitted for a dress for her performance earlier this week according to people.com.

She will most likely take the opportunity to fit in a few talk shows and other performances during her trip. After all the real purpose is to promote her new album due out this autumn. The album ‘I Dreamed a Dream’ is already at the top of Amazon UK album charts on the basis of pre-orders alone.

You can pre-order your very own copy of Susan’s debut album I Dreamed a Dream
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Susan Boyle’s album – ‘I Dreamed A Dream’ – at number one three months before release date

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Susan Boyle has already topped the album charts, three months before her record is even released.

The Britain’s Got Talent winner’s debut album I Dreamed a Dream headed the pre-sale ratings on Amazon.com, selling thousands of copies to adoring fans. Some were even upset as Amazon seemed to be limiting the amount of albums available per customer.

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Declan Donnelly prefers old X Factor format

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Declan Donnelly, one half of Ant & Dec, has admitted that he liked the old style X Factor auditions more.

Declan is not a big fan of the audience presence at this year’s auditions and said that he preferred the contestants singing for the judges alone during the early stages.

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Susan Boyle documentary to air in Japan

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A TV programme examining Susan Boyle’s rise to fame is due to air in Japan.

Filmmakers will visit Subo’s hometown of Blackburn in Scotland and her council home as part of the documentary.

Kanako Hiramoto from Japanese broadcaster NHK told the Sunday Mirror: “We wanted to tell the story of the Susan Boyle phenomenon and how the world responded to her remarkable performance on Britain’s Got Talent.

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Ant and Dec defend decision to allow Susan Boyle On BGT

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Ant and Dec have spoken out in defence of the decision to allow Susan Boyle to audition for Britain’s Got Talent.

Susan had an emotional breakdown after failing to win the show but Ant told the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival: “You can’t start censoring people because you don’t think they would be able to handle the fame and the attention as well as they should.

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Ant & Dec – Simon Cowell apologised to us

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TV duo Ant and Dec, have admitted that Simon Cowell apologised for hiring Kelly Brook without consulting them.

Kelly was hired as the fourth Britain’s Got Talent judge earlier this year, but sacked after only six days on the job.

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