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Britain’s Got Talent judge Amanda Holden found herself eclipsed in the US by her protege, Susan Boyle.
Speaking of her time in the US, Holden discovered that name-dropping SuBo – the plain woman she plucked from anonymity – helped open doors.
Holden, who worked on the ITV-1 series Fantasy Lives, said: “To get into places, whenever they asked ‘Who is it for?’ I’d say, ‘Do you know Susan Boyle? I’m the judge on that show’.”
Holden added: “They would be like, ‘Oh my gaawwd! Wow, Susan Boyle!’ And we would be in. It’s amazing – she seems to have reached every corner of the world. I don’t think she realises her fame is growing. Susan has been in a little bubble in LA making her album and probably thinks the world has forgotten about her.”
Holden shared a moment she had with Piers Morgan at Simon Cowell’s home in Los Angeles, when the judges communed with the magic of SuBo. “Piers and I went to Simon’s house in LA and he put on Susan’s new track Wild Horses. We sat around his candlelit pool with it ringing out into the dark night. I had goose pimples. I expected Susan to be good – but I didn’t expect the song choice to be so genius and to suit her so well. It was a cross between Kate Bush and Barbra Streisand.”
Source: Splash News
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