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Britain's Got Talent star Susan Boyle is being cruelly taunted, intimdated and attacked by a gang of youths, it was reported last night. Witnesses have claimed singing sensation Boyle, who suffers from Asperger Syndrome, is being 'hounded' by a group of 15 young people who live near her in West Lothian, Scotland. The gang of mainly boys is said to have thrown a flaming piece of paper at her in one attack and pelted the buses she was riding on with stones in another.

The magnificent and shy singer Susan Boyle has her first boyfriend at age 53 ? a Connecticut doctor she met on her recent U.S. tour who may soon visit her in Scotland. "That's the plan," Boyle's spokeswoman, Nicola Phillips, said Monday. "She met someone when she was in America and the idea is that he can come here." Boyle and the doctor met at a hotel in Clearwater, Florida, Phillips said, adding that Boyle is "definitely" happy to have met someone. The church volunteer from a small Scottish town became a global sensation when she sang the "Les Miserables" number...

Susan Boyle revealed she has Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism. The Scottish singer who shot to worldwide fame in 2009 with her jaw-dropping performance on "Britain's Got Talent" was diagnosed last year, but has now decided to reveal her news publicly for the first time. Speaking to the Observer newspaper, Boyle said, "It was the wrong diagnosis when I was a kid. "I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong and I feel relieved and a bit more relaxed about myself." Asperger's has...

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A 22-year-old singer is being dubbed the new Susan Boyle after reducing talent show judges to tears with his powerful voice and inspirational story about being abandoned as a child.

Most are familiar with her story. In April of 2009, Susan Boyle’s audition for Britain’s Got Talent went viral. Nor is the modest Scottish singer from a wee village a one-hit wonder with two bestselling albums behind her now. The media, however, still hasn’t warmed to Boyle’s 2010 autobiography. One clue (page 13): When my mother arrived there in labour, the hillside was bright with golden daffodils and the sight of spring lifted her spirits for a moment. She was apprehensive. Having given birth to eight children over a period of twenty-three years, she had been advised not to have...

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Scottish singer Susan Boyle's second album "The Gift" held on to the top spot on the Billboard 200 album charts for a second week, beating new releases by R&B artist Rihanna, and Kid Rock. Boyle, who became an Internet sensation after appearing on "Britain's Got Talent" in 2009, also scored a rare second-week sales increase, up 5 percent with 335,000 sales of her Christmas-themed album, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Boyle was joined by a kindred TV spirit as 10-year-old "America's Got Talent" runner-up Jackie Evancho saw her "O Holy Night" bow with 239,000 at No. 2....

Singer Susan Boyle has notched up a notable double after her latest album - already number one in the UK - reached the top spot in the US as well. It's a musical feat matched only by the Beatles and the Monkees and now the singing sensation has become the first woman to top the UK and US album charts twice in the same year. The star says she's overwhelmed but delighted with her success, as David Sillito reports.

Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle lives like a pauper -- although she's sitting on more than $15.7 million in the bank, according to a stunning report yesterday. Boyle's managers have such a tight financial leash on the "Britain's Got Talent" star that she's allowed to spend only $471 a week, has no credit cards and travels by bus, the British paper News of The World reported. "When Susan realized she can't just walk into a bank and take out her own money, she had a fit because she thought she was down to her last few quid," her brother Gerry...

Janey Cutler: The NEXT Next Susan Boyle William Wei May. 10, 2010, 5:13 PM Last month, Lin Yu Chun, aka the Taiwanese Susan Boyle, swept the viral video world. Today, Janey Cutler is about to take over. Cutler is an 81-year-old grandmother who just had a Susan Boyle moment of her own on "Britain's Got Talent." The Daily Mirror goes so far as to say that Cutler is "at the centre of a U.S. television bidding war." The official video is currently the second most watched video of the day on YouTube and it had around 450,000 total views as...

Susan Boyle rejects her plans to move to a more luxurious apartment, because of her beloved cat. Despite the council house in Scotland is being broken into, her pet cat Pebbles does not want a change. Pebbles has lived here all her life in that house and the cat hates upping sticks, says Boyle. So she has declined the offer of Sony Music , to rent a 10 million-pound mansion, in an exclusive Californian community . Sony promised flying the cat to California, but Boyle feared that her pet might not survive the flight or be able to settle by...

The first pictures emerged today of Susan Boyle's much-hyped appearance on Oprah as fears grew over her increasingly unusual behaviour. The images of the Britain's Got Talent star singing Who I Was Born to Be on America's most iconic chat show will hearten her legions of fans on both sides of Atlantic. But many will be concerned at growing evidence that she may once again be showing signs of not being able to cope with the pressures of stardom. And with two more examples of her erratic behaviour in just 24 hours, Susan Boyle has done nothing to ease their...

Susan Boyle tells of torrid romance with Tiger Woods Amid the stampede of women who have claimed to have had liasons with Tiger Woods, singer Susan Boyle has come forth with her own tale of romancing the golfer. Friends close to Boyle say that she is devastated to learn the she is merely one woman among a virtual harem of partners. "Susan has been very down about realizing she is not the only one, because she felt she really had a connection to Tiger," said an unnamed friend. But Boyle, a singer who attained world prominence with her performance on...

This year has been the biggest yet for online video, and for the first time we're sharing our official Most Watched lists and some of the fastest-rising search terms on YouTube. Some moments were big (President Obama's inauguration), some small (a Minnesota wedding party erupts into dance), some expected ("New Moon"), some surprising (Susan Boyle) — but all of them inspired, entertained and connected millions of people around the world via YouTube. For these lists, we looked at view counts of YouTube's most popular videos this year (in some instances we aggregated views across multiple versions of the same video):...

This one-hour program will celebrate Ms. Boyle's extraordinary journey, from her devout upbringing in a rural Scottish village where she learned to sing in churches and choral societies, to instant international fame after her inspiring performance on "Britain's Got Talent," Simon Cowell's British reality TV competition series.

A massive row has broken out in New after former BBC host Paul Henry called Susan Boyle "retarded." Talking on his TV show this week Henry laughed as he described how the global superstar was "starved of oxygen" at birth and suffered an intellectual disability.

LONDON (AP) - In the contest, she finished second. But on the charts, she's number one. Susan Boyle's debut record, "I Dreamed A Dream," entered the British album chart in the top spot Sunday. The 48-year-old Scottish songstress famously finished second on "Britain's Got Talent," but the variety show launched a career that has seen her win success on both sides of the Atlantic. Millions of people have seen an online clip of Boyle auditioning for the judges. Wearing a somewhat dowdy frock and with a halo of untidy hair, Boyle told Simon Cowell that her dream was to be...

Susan Boyle Climbs Past 625k, Approaches 675k, Lambert #2, Lady Gaga Two in Top 10 Steve Barnett's Columbia Records and Susan Boyle have a lot to be thankful for this weekend. And that goes for you two, Adam Lambert and Lady Gaga. Going into the weekend, Simon Cowell's gal Boyle is a runaway for #1 on next Tuesday's HITS Album Sales chart, with a total almost three times her closest competitor, 19/RCA/ RMG's Idol runner-up Adam Lambert. Boyle's I Dreamed a Dream is on target for between 625-675k in sales, which would be the year's biggest debut, besting Eminem's 608k...

Susan Boyle's new album cover features the global superstar as you have seen her before--down-to-earth and natural..