Susan Boyle: No Oprah, No Makeover...Yet

The YouTube sensation isn't changing a thing, plus why she's not heading to Winfrey's stage anytime soon

By Marc Malkin Apr 17, 2009 7:10 PMTags
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Oprah Winfrey may want Susan Boyle on her show, but the talk show queen is going to have to wait.

The Scottish YouTube sensation will not be heading to Chicago anytime soon.

“Oprah has expressed an interest but there are no plans for her to go on at the moment," a rep for Britain's Got Talent told me this morning. "We only do things like that once the show is over.”

But Ms. Boyle was on the Today show this morning.

"It's had a huge impact on my life," she said in a satellite interview from her home in Blackburn, Scotland, about her insta-fame. "It's like a whirlwind, a roller coaster."

As of this morning, the YouTube video of last weekend's performance of "I Dreamed a Dream" on Britain's Got Talent was at more than 19 million views.

And if you think producers are rushing to give the unemployed 47-year-old charity worker a quickie makeover, think again.

"We'll keep her as she is for now so she doesn't have the added pressure of worrying about what she looks like," Amanda Holden, one of the reality competition's three judges said on the Today show. "She'll just be the down-to-earth girl whom we have all kind of fallen in love with."

And speaking of falling in love, Boyle remained tight-lipped when Meredith Vieira asked if she's become a man magnet in the last few days since confessing on BGT that she's "never been kissed."

Boyle laughed, "No comment. No comment."

In the meantime, another Boyle performance has hit YouTube, a rendition of "Cry Me a River" that was included on a 1999 charity CD. According to the U.K.'s Daily Record, only 1,000 copies of the album were released.

I think it's safe to say Ms. Boyle will definitely be producing—and selling!—way more records in the future.


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