Authors: Alice Montgomery

Susan Boyle (26 page)

BOOK: Susan Boyle

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However, if Ant and Dec, the show’s jovial hosts, had the inside scoop on which way the audience was going to vote in the final, they certainly weren’t letting on.

The support Susan received from the public was incredible.

Supporters wearing Susan masks gather in her hometown to watch the final of
Britain’s Got Talent
.

Susan greets young fans at the door of her house.

Susan poses with two fans, Mathew Balderston and Kevin Hepworth, who drove for three hours from Alloa in order to meet their hero.

Susan wows fans during the opening show of the
Britain’s Got Talent
live tour at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, in front of a packed audience of 5,000.

Susan smiles for the cameras with her doctor, Sarah Latzof, after her brief stay at The Priory.

Susan getting ready to board a plane from Heathrow Airport . . .

. . . and arriving at Los Angeles International Airport on her first trip to America.

Susan’s beloved cat, Pebbles, became a celebrity in her own right - here, she’s shielded from the snapping lights of photographers!

Susan performing as a guest on
America’s Got Talent
.

In her US TV singing debut, she covered the Rolling Stones track ‘Wild Horses’, as well as singing ‘I Dreamed a Dream’, the song that originally catapulted her to fame in the UK.

As part of its
People of the Year
show, NBC took a look at the most fascinating, inspirational and heroic figures of 2009. Susan was invited to appear as a guest and was interviewed by Matt Lauer.