Susan Boyle

  • Susan Boyle’s Debut Album Soars to No. 1

    “I Dreamed a Dream” sells 701,000 copies in its first week.

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    Billboard

  • Boyle’s Album Is a Record Breaker

    “I Dreamed a Dream” has biggest first-week sales for debut album in U.K. chart history,

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    Reuters

  • TV Guide Network Special Spotlights Susan Boyle

    Hourlong show will feature interviews with Boyle, Cowell, as well as performances.

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    Wrap Staff

  • Three Men With Three Very Different Weeks

    This week, we’re mourning one person who bucked the PR handbook, curious about another who might’ve put a crack in his carefully-shaped image and scratching our heads over a third who may or may not have committed suicide. Not necessarily who you think. As an entertainment writer for a daily paper in the 1980s, I…

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  • Ester’s Weekly ‘Wrap’: It’s Reality Moron Week!

    Catch up on all the top schmooze in Hollywood, as Ester gives her own outrageous take on the week on TheWrap. In this episode: It’s Reality Moron Week, from Susan Boyle (she dreamed a dream and lost her mind…) to Jon & Kate (puh-leeze!). Plus, Eminem and Bruno: the love fest. So sit your tookus down…

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    Ester Goldberg

  • A Susan Boyle Meltdown Hoax?

    Did Susan Boyle self-destruct? Or is Simon Cowell tricking us again? At first we could hope it was all a misunderstanding and Susan Boyle didn’t really scream and swear at the police. Or at her biggest "Britain’s Got Talent" rival, 12-year-old Shaheen Jafargholi, as she watched him on the telly in her hotel bar.  …

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    Sondra Lowell

  • Does Adam Lambert’s ‘Idol’ Loss Mean ‘BGT’s’ Susan Boyle Is in Trouble?

    It’s over.   Kris Allen won ‘American Idol," and it wasn’t even close.    The big question now is — how is this going to affect this week’s outcome of "Britain’s Got Talent?" It’s not like the old days, when what happened in America stayed in America. Word has surely gotten back to the Old Country…

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    Sondra Lowell

  • Susan Boyle Was Right to Snub Obama

    Will Susan Boyle bring down Barack Obama?   Talent contestant Sarah Boyle’s rebuff of an invitation to dine with Barack Obama at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner has gone practically unnoticed compared to the outrage over Wanda Sykes’ hope that Rush Limbaugh’s kidneys fail.   But it may be Sarah’s subtle oneupsmanship that has the more lasting implications.   Only weeks…

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    Sondra Lowell

  • Susan Boyle: What Did They Know, and When Did They Know It?

    I’m not one of those bullies who looked at Susan Boyle’s audition on "Britain’s Got Talent" and went, “Harumph! She’s nowhere as good as Elaine Paige, whoever that is, how dare she aim so high.” Though I did later learn from Letty Cottin Pogrebin in one of Huffington Post’s multitudinous articles on Susan’s triumph that…

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    Sondra Lowell

  • Why Susan Boyle Struck a Worldwide Chord

    The international reaction to 47-year-old Susan Boyle’s performance singing "I Dreamed a Dream" from "Les Miserables" in the auditions for "Britains Got Talent" last week has surpassed anything that could be managed and executed by a battalion of PR experts. Her modest story as much as her singing has captured the imagination of an unlikely…

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    Mark Lynch