It’s funny, I went to Edinburgh Castle about four weeks ago – I kept saying to my husband, “I wonder if we’ll bump into Susan Boyle”. And we went to Edinburgh Castle. Looks like I picked the wrong day. It would have been lovely if I had bumped into her, but I doubt I would have known what to say. Blushes and looks tongue tied!!

Thanks to Eloise for bringing this interview to my attention.

The first biography, entitled Dreams Can Come True,? is due for release in both the UK and the US on February 9th. The second biography, Living the Dream,? is now already available from Amazon in the UK.

Dreams Can Come True is written by Alice Montgomery, and is on sale at Amazon for a pre-sale price of ?6.29 for the paperback edition. The hardback edition is available for a pre-sale price of ?12.20 at the time of writing. The hardback version in the US is currently priced at $14.93.

Living the Dream is written by John McShane, who also wrote a? biography on Heath Ledger. This book is currently available from Amazon.co.uk for ?6.29, but a release date for the US is not yet availalble.

Both of these books are unauthorised, which is a surprise to me because I would have thought that $imon Cowell would have beaten them to it with an authorised version.

However, he did say to me: “Mandy, I know, I know, but I just can’t do everything myself”.

Well, actually he didn’t say that to me. He doesn’t know me from Adam. But I got you all going, didn’t I?