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Singer Susan Boyle is to become the latest celebrity to be immortalised in wax at London’s Madame Tussauds.
According to the News Of The World Susan, who found fame on 2009 Britain’s Got Talent season, has been secretly measured up for the waxwork, which will go on display at the London tourist attraction later this year. She will be one of eight new waxwork figures due to debut at the attraction, each costing around £150,000.
CNN visits the proud Scottish hometown of Susan Boyle, and neighbors share! [April 2009] The world is smitten with British sensation Susan Boyle and though her appearance has been described as “dowdy” and prompted calls for a makeover fans want the powerful singer to know they love her just the way she is.
Boyle told CNN this morning that she’s overwhelmed by her sudden notoriety. “I’m gobsmacked, absolutely gobsmacked,” she said. The word “gobsmacked” is British slang to mean astonished or astounded. But Boyle herself also said she wouldn’t want the instant fame to change her.
“I wouldn’t want to change myself too much because that would really make things a bit false,” she said Friday in an interview with CNN.
“I want to receive people as the real me, a real person.” Boyle, 47, burst into the spotlight last week when she performed the song “I Dreamed a Dream” on the reality show “Britain’s Got Talent.”
At least two members of the show’s judging panel have said they judged Boyle on her looks when she first appeared on stage before them. Based on the somewhat disheveled state of her baggy dress and wild hair they admitted they didn’t expect much.
“It’s a very shallow thing to say but, obviously, the minute she walked onstage we all, and the audience, completely judged her on her appearance and everything else. And I hate saying that. But, you know, that true cliche, we judged a book by its cover,” said judge Amanda Holden in an interview Friday on the CBS …
Glee continues to draw in big names, as the BBC reports that both Susan Boyle and Sir Paul McCartney’s music will be featured on the hit Fox show.
The creator of the comedy musical, Ryan Murphy, said the Britain’s Got Talent star Boyle will be featured in a Christmas episode, and is planned to play a high school lunch lady.
The Britain’s Got Talent star, 49, will act and sing in a Christmas episode in season two of the hit TV show, according to reports. Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy told People.com: “Susan is on the same label as us and is a fan of the show.
“She’s coming out with a Christmas album, so the story I want to do in our Christmas episode is to have Kurt [played by Chris Colfer] give her some sort of fantastic make-over and have her sing a song that’s from her album on the show.”
Piers Morgan ‘Talents’ Susan
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