Susan Boyle

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Susan Boyle has been exclusively interviewed by Mark Jefferies of the Daily Mirror. He reports that Susan these days “cuts a sleek and sophisticated figure”. Susan agrees that she feels different now, too.

She said: “When I look in the mirror I see that I brush up quite well. It?s a bit like a cygnet to a swan.

“Now, I see a sophisticated lady. Even though the outwardness has changed, inside I?m still the same, but now I?m a bit more refined in some ways.

“Put it this way, a woman who went on Britain?s Got Talent with mad hair, bushy eyebrows and the frock that I was wearing that night had to be noticed.

“It was a good choice at the time. In fact, the whole process has been pretty good for me.?

Susan has done incredibly well since last year’s Britain’s Got Talent. Her debut album, I Dreamed a Dream, sold more that eight million copies around the world. Now Amazon.co.uk have been inundated with pre-orders for Susan’s second album, which is yet to be recorded or named. There have so far been two million pre-orders and is set to be the most pre-ordered CD in history.

Susan also spoke of the effect the death of her mother, Bridget, had on her in 2007.

She said: ?It was life-changing, not having her to depend on so much. I had to learn to do things for myself.

“My dad has been dead for 10 years now and my mum for two-and-a-half. They both had a good innings. They were elderly when they went and they?d been sweethearts since they were 20. They went to school together, came from the same area, grew up together.

“This was a promise that I?d made to my mum ? that I?d do something with my singing. She was the reason I pursued my singing. She had a good belief that I could do it. I couldn?t straight away because the bereavement hit me hard.

“My confidence had been pretty good at the time. But when you lose someone as powerful as your mum, you feel as if a part of you is taken away.

“A good way of levelling out, I found, was to tell myself that she may not be here physically and mentally, but spiritually she is. That?s what keeps you going. I have my faith which is the backbone of who I am.

“I?m getting over that slowly and putting my promise into practice.”

Susan talked further, about the musical family from which she comes.

“Oh, we were quite a squad,? she says. ?All very musical. My dad used to sing, my mother sang and played piano. I have two sisters who are very good singers. My brother Joe was a good songwriter, too. We were a wee bit like the von Trapps. We loved the Beatles in the 1960s. I was a wee lassie and we?d sit and watch Top of the Pops, and wait for them and the Rolling Stones to come on.

“My dad hated the programme, so he used to turn it down. But I used to turn it back up for devilment. My father was a fair sort of a person, mind you, but he caused a lot of arguments over that programme. We were never allowed to go to the local dance hall, but I had a sister who used to shimmy down the drainpipes and sneak out. Gradually my brothers and sisters flew the nest.”

At the moment, Susan maintains she is too busy with music to think about romance, even if she wanted to! However, any future boyfriend of Susan would need to be accepted by her family, so says Gerry Boyle. In an interview with an Australian magazine, he said: “Our family is very protective of Susan. Anyone coming into a circle from a romantic angle would have to go through the rigour.

?She becomes attached very easily to people so she has to be careful. There has to be a bit of reality in her life. I think the world realises that she is fragile. She?s desperately keen to be loved again.?

Susan also spoke about her school days, and the times when she was bullied. She said: “I started to get bullied at school. They used to knock me about a bit and make me cry. There?s nothing worse than another person having power over you by bullying you.

?For anybody with that kind of problem, I?d tell them to see a teacher, but I didn?t do it.

?I didn?t think I could trust anybody and it made me a bit of a sitting target.

?By the time I got to secondary school, I wasn?t sure who was my friend or enemy. I didn?t make friends very easily. I did try, but they made fun of me and I felt pushed aside.”

Now Susan has lots of money and fans the world over. Nevertheless, brother Gerry cautions: “Now that Britain?s Got Talent has gone, she?s got a commitment. She has to sing, she has to travel, she?s in the working world the same as the rest of us. I think Susan will have to realise that staying at the top takes a heck of a lot.”

I know that I for one can’t wait to hear her second album.

Susan Boyle has been talking about a former boyfriend who broke her heart.

She has revealed to the Daily Mirror that she did used to have a boyfriend. She said: “I had a boyfriend, John. He asked me to marry him after seven weeks.

“We went to visit his mum and she started telling me what our kitchen was going to be like when we got married! Even what fridge we could have, although we’d only ever had a peck on the cheek!

“He got cold feet. It made me sad, in a way. It makes you feel unattractive. You feel that life is passing you by. But I thought, ‘Maybe there’s something for me later’. I was always optimistic.”

Susan has also added that she was not pleased with her appearance when she saw herself on TV, and decided then to have a makeover. Formerly described as “the Hairy Angel”, a reference to her untamed eye brows and frizzy hair, Susan says: “I saw this wee wifey with the mad hairdo and the bushy eyebrows and said, ‘Hmmm, not really telegenic’. So I decided to spruce myself up a bit.

“When I look in the mirror now, I see this sophisticated lady. I’m still a bit like that wee wifey inside, but more refined.

“I think any woman would have done the same. Would you want to look like the Hairy Angel? I don’t think so.”

Susan is still coming to terms with her fame, and puzzled as to why she has become so popular. She told Weekend magazine: “I suppose it’s a bit of a Cinderella story, isn’t it?”

Meanwhile, the Daily Mirror have launched a search for Susan’s ex John – the poor guy!