Susan Boyle

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Susan Boyle wowed the adoring crowd on NBC’s Today show this morning, performing tracks from her record breaking “I Dreamed a Dream” album.

Dressed in a smart black coat and signature red scarf – which many of her fans wore to greet her at the airport the previous day – she sang “I Dreamed a Dream”, “Wild Horses” (the rendition of which host Meredith Vieira said was “absolutely beautiful”) and “Cry Me a River.”

Susan looked happy and confident, and was in good voice.

And here are the videos for all the people who didn’t get to see Susan on the Today Show.

Susan Boyle’s long awaited interview with Meredith Vieira on the Today Show on NBC is now available in full below, in two parts.

Part 1 – Meredith talks about Susan’s rapid rise to fame, the brief time she spent in the Priory Mental Health Clinic and what the future has in store.

Part 2 – Meredith surprises Susan with a message from her idol Donny Osmond – and introduces her to another of her idols – Elaine Paige. She also sings I Dreamed a Dream with Susan.

Simon Cowell has a reputation for being a Mr Nasty in the reality TV talent show world. However, he is showing a completely different side with Susan Boyle.

In order that the pressures don’t become too great for Susan, her interview on NBC was prerecorded, and not live, to keep the pressure off our favourite lady.

Susan’s chat with Meredith Vieira aired in the US this morning and will be repeated at 9pm tonight before America’s Got Talent (bumping Barack out of the way).

Meanwhile, Simon Cowell has revealed that he is delighted with the progress so far on Susan’s album. He said: “We went through about 350 songs and Susan was blown away by some of the choices. She’s going to surprise a lot of people with this record.”

Here is a preview of the Susan Boyle interview conducted by Meredith Vieira that will be broadcast on the Today show, on NBC, on July 22nd.

Thanks again to Misti in Seattle for the heads-up and Haricornflake for posting it on Youtube.

Susan Boyle will grant her first TV interview in America to Meredith Vieira of NBC’s Today show, according to an article in The New York Times. The Today show will use the show to promote America’s Got Talent, the US version of the show that made Susan Boyle famous.

Susan’s interview will be broadcast on Wednesday in the US, but not the UK, with excepts being shown on Today. An extended version of the interview will be shown on America’s Got Talent.

In the interview, Susan talks “about her improbable journey to international fame, her voice, her health and what is next for her.”

I guess we in the UK will have to wait for our US friends to upload the interview to YouTube. Hint, hint!

Susan Boyle appeared on the NBC’s Today show on Friday 17th April, but declined to answer the question: Have you got a boyfriend yet?
Last weekend when Susan appeared on Britain’s Got Talent, she said that she was 47 and had “never been married, never been kissed”

As of yesterday, more than 25 million people had viewed Susan Boyle’s performance on YouTube, so Today presenter Meredith Vieira asked Boyle if there had been any male suitors (not counting Piers Morgan) beating a path to her door.

Boyle laughed a girly laugh, and chortled, “No comment.”

Matt Lauer admitted that he’s watched her video “12 or 14 times”, though Boyle, sitting at home and talking in America via a satellite link, said the reaction from everywhere in the world “hasn’t sunk in yet.”

Simon Cowell has however commented (on GMTV) that Boyle winning “Britain’s Got Talent” is by no means a “done deal”. Cowell added “There are some acts that you haven’t seen yet, it’s not quite the one-horse race you are going to think this is.”

View the whole interview here: