Susan Boyle astounded everyone when she took “Britain's Got Talent by storm”. The audience and judges were ready to boo her off stage because of her age and frumpy persona, but as she started to sing everyone was gob smacked.
Shock and disbelief turned to a frenzy of adulation and Susan Boyle became famous overnight.
The numbers that watched videos of her audition set an online record and she was door stepped by the media.
She was primed to win the final on Sunday and many expected it. She must have been devastated to come second after all the build-up, since her first astonishing appearance, so it is no surprise that she might have reacted spectacularly.
What is it about us, in general and the media in particular, that love it when a nobody makes it to the top and then enjoy seeing that celebrity fail?
Did the morning news have to splash the news that doctors were called “ to assess a woman under the mental health act”?
Later, we were told she was suffering from exhaustion and was emotionally drained, reminding me of Private Eye's " tired and emotional" (in the Eighties) when lampooning someone for being drunk.
Monday, 1 June 2009
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