Subo - Daily Mail

[counic]

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-284022343.html

Let me know if this has already been posted. (I was away on the day it came out). It's a nice long article, given as a kind of update on Susan - straight-forward but rather positive I would say. I had to sign up for a free trial 7 day membership to the online version of this newspaper in order to be able to get a link for you to use, and I will be cancelling my membership in a few days to avoid a $30 charge, so I hope access from the link doesn't disappear after I cancel!

Edit - scroll down to post #6 to see selected portions of the text from the article

Add: I've posted the article in full in post # 42: http://forum.susan-boyle.com/threads...l=1#post692756

[JudyMcKinn]

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-284022343.html

Let me know if this has already been posted. (I was away on the day it came out). It's a nice long article, given as a kind of update on Susan - straight-forward but rather positive I would say. I had to sign up for a free trial 7 day membership to the online version of this newspaper in order to be able to get a link for you to use, and I will be cancelling my membership in a few days to avoid a $30 charge, so I hope access from the link doesn't disappear after I cancel!

Well, rats! Used your link and it still says Ihave to sign up, too. After reading the first half-dozen lines or so. Guess they are on to people like us. LOL Canyou give us the gist of the article?

[UKSusanfanAnn]

How strange I got The Poundland Store story!!!!

[Vicki]

I got what Judy got - the first paragraph and then it said I have to sign up. I know I'll get busy and forget to cancel out and I don't want to pay the $30. Thanks for posting, Counic!

[counic]

Rats - When I click the the link it works, but I guess it knows my computer's address. I could post it here in pieces - would that be legit copyright wise? It's a long article.

[counic]

Thanks, Truus. I'll pick out some paragraphs to post. I'm actually copying them from another closed site, not even from the link I posted, so I hope by pulling out stuff we already know well I will not be violating any copyrights. I've omitted about half of it.

....But last night Miss Boyle.....was in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, making a special appearance in the premiere of the musical ..... inspiring audiences with its heart-warming story of fulfilment - the tale of a devout Catholic girl, bullied at school, unlucky in love and seemingly destined for a lifetime on benefits, who used her remarkable singing talent to prove everyone wrong.

.... Riches do not seem to matter much at all to the singer who seems to care more for more maintaining control of her life and ensuring that fame does not overwhelm her...

She still likes to.... visit Bathgate... with a bigger array of shops - and she is never reckless of flash with her money.

... little has changed...she now owns the ex-council house ... She also owns a second property..... almost ten times what she paid for her council house - but she finds the new pad too posh to call home. She uses it simply as an office or a place where she can go to practise her singing, and a store for her growing array of awards and platinum discs.....resistant to change. Not for one minute...... look as if she hankered after the trappings of fame and wealth.... wanted to be a professional singer like Elaine Paige.

WHEN she turned out to have a voice worthy of that ambition, it was not this alone that propelled her to stardom. A crucial element of her appeal was the fact that the voice came in such an unlikely package. ... But there was nothing fake about the rather unworldly, middle-aged woman on the stage. She really had led a sheltered life - and the millions....loved her for it.

Mentally, however, Miss Boyle seemed ill-prepared for the avalanche of attention which Britain's Got Talent brought her way.....
Friends now insist that Miss Boyle's admission to the Priory was no more than 'a blip' and that she has adjusted well to her celebrity. Where once she worried that, like so many performers from Cowell's talent shows, interest in her would swiftly evaporate, she is now confident of her longevity as a performer.

She has also learned that there is no need to change who she is to be a showbiz personality - indeed, that her homely, unaffected image is a key part of her mass appeal. And the extent of that appeal is simply staggering....



Audiences in the U.S. cannot get enough of her. Australia is equally smitten. Yet her world continues to revolve around the unprepossessing town, just off the M8, which provides her support system.

She says she is proud of Blackburn, and wants to be where her friends and family are. Many of the neighbours have known her all her life. Those close to her say Miss Boyle tries to keep her private time there as low-key as possible, but insist she does not simply sit at home when not working.

She is heavily involved in charity work in the community, most of it anonymously, and makes regular donations. She often sees friends and family, too - though, as yet, there is still no man in her life......


The fact that she is now worth an estimated [pounds sterling]20million makes it easier for her to surround herself with key personnel whose job is to make life easier for the superstar.

Manager Andy Stephens is the man who makes sure SuBo's more glamorous trips go to plan and is the person who is always at her side with a guiding hand or a wise whispered word in her ear.

Wherever she travels, she is hardly the most demanding of pop performers.

A working kettle is all she really requires for her dressing room. She even brings her own teabags.

Often, while staying in top hotels, she will order exactly the same breakfact she would make for herself at home - scrambled egg.

ON trips abroad, Miss Boyle makes a point of visiting the local landmarks and tourist attractions - and friends say her ability to retain facts about them is second to none. As one puts it: 'She likes to immerse herself in the culture of a place.'.... it becomes clear her horizons have broadened in exactly the way she wished. She dreamed a dream of being a professional singer like Elaine Paige - and that is exactly what she has become.

Her publicist said: 'Susan will never change. That's her life and that's what she wants, and it's a quality that many people admire. For whatever reason that she wants to maintain that lifestyle, it's an admirable lifestyle.

'She does have the funds. Of course she has the funds. She doesn't need to take the bus, but that's what she wants to do, and that's something that endears her to people all over the world. She is still the same person that people fell in love with.' That much was clear last night as Miss Boyle took to the stage to rapturous applause at the premiere of the musical of her life story in Newcastle.......

She is understood to be very pleased with the show, as are her close-knit circle of friends and family.

And that, it seems, is what makes Susan Boyle truly happy.

[Little Lulu]

Loved it except for the word HOMELY.

[trennie]

Thanks so much, Counic. What a perfectly lovely article. And thanks for jumping through all those hoops to bring it to us.

[laurabelle]

Thanks Counic for the excerpts.

[trennie]

Loved it except for the word HOMELY.

There are several meanings for "homely". Not sure how he meant it, but in the context of the article, probably the more benign one.