Oprah wants to feature BGT star Susan Boyle

Oprah wants to feature BGT star Susan Boyle
Oprah wants to feature BGT star Susan Boyle

Britain's Got Talent sensation Susan Boyle has apparently been invited to appear on Oprah Winfrey's US chat show. US TV news reporters flocked to Susan's home in Blackburn, Scotland on Thursday, where she joked around for the cameras singing into a brush. Told Oprah wanted her as a guest on her show, Susan said: "Wow! Put me down for it. I'm shaking!" The 48-year-old church worker has become a worldwide hit and her performance of I Dreamed A Dream from musical Les Miserables has been viewed more than 17 million times on YouTube. Britain's Got Talent judge Simon Cowell said: "If she went on Oprah I think there's every chance Susan will have the No 1 album in America." But fellow judge Amanda Holden vowed not to 'spoil' her with a makeover. She told the Daily Mirror: "I won't let Simon make her go to his dentist and I certainly won't be letting her go to his hairdresser. "She needs to stay exactly as she is because that's the reason we love her. "The minute we turn her into a glamour-puss is when it's spoilt. That can perhaps come later when she's signed the album deal and conquered America. "For now we'll keep her exactly as she is because that's why we've all fallen in love with her." Get exclusive access to your favourite stars. Subscribe to TV Times magazine

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.