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.”

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The Britain’s Got Talent judge wore a wig, gold dress and facial hair when appearing on Alan Carr’s Chatty Man show.

Holden, who was surprisingly cruel, also joked about Susan’s looks and said she looked like a man.

She said: “I think (Susan) looks a bit like Eddie Large facially, or Piers Morgan with a wig.

“That’s obviously why she loved him, because they always say you fall in love with someone you end up looking like.”

She also said that she thought Susan’s stint in The Priory was actually more of a holiday.

She said: “She was only there for a week, I tell you what it was… I don’t know this officially, but I would say it was more of a little holiday, because where else could she go apart from prison where she wasn’t going to get hassled.

“Nowhere, so The Priory, it’s the same thing. To be frank, the only time I worried about her mental health was when she confessed to fancying Piers Morgan.”

Simon Cowell has revealed that this year’s X Factor auditions will be held in front of a live audience for the first time.

The judge told GMTV said: “I like the idea that I’ve got a couple of thousand people behind me and you can take a lead from them. I think things have changed dramatically in the last few months and I think for the performers on X Factor, not to give them a chance to audition in front of a crowd, it just didn’t seem fair.”

Cowell admitted that because of this year’s Britain’s Got Talent auditions, he’s realised a live audience will be needed.

He said: “I’ve kind of got over this, ‘we should be the only ones in judgement’. I don’t feel that way anymore. I literally did this at the last second, changed my mind.

“Luckily we work with a great team of people who can do things quickly but they had to build a set. This is going to be like going to a concert now. We’ve had to build a stage, a set, everything, and we’re going to give the contestants a chance now to perform on stage for the first time.”

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Piers Morgan said his fellow Britain’s Got Talent judges Amanda Holden and Simon Cowell have had so much Botox, they “should be dead”.

The 44-year-old star, who is also a judge on America’s Got Talent, said he’s the only one of the judges who hasn’t succumbed to cosmetic surgery procedures.

He said, “Simon and Amanda are both so full of Botox they really should be dead. It’s ridiculous. I’m the only natural one on the panel [who hasn’t had it]! I’m the organic one and far more healthy.”

Piers also revealed that Amanda was ecstatic when she received a message from Hollywood star Demi Moore on her Twitter page.

“Amanda just won’t stop banging on about it,” he revealed.

“[It was] Demi this, Demi that, she really is very pleased with herself and incredibly smug. It’s driving us all potty.”

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Amanda Holden says it’s a “blessing” that exhausted Susan Boyle didn’t win Britain’s Got Talent.

The judge, who sits on the hit TV show’s panel alongside Simon Cowell and Piers Morgan, believes that Boyle was lucky to have missed out on the top spot.

The Scottish singing phenomenon – who was pipped to the post by dance act Diversity – has been admitted to hospital after reportedly suffering a nervous breakdown.

She is now said to be resting at London’s Priory Clinic.

Holden said: “It’s taken its toll on her – she’s gone from a woman that nobody knew to worldwide fame. For anybody in the business to handle that kind of stress is an enormous amount of pressure, and I think she probably has just crumbled under it.

“Actually it’s probably a blessing that she didn’t win because the spotlight’s not so heavily on her.

“Perhaps now, she can just relax and enjoy what’s happening to her rather than feel the pressure.”

Health experts have suggested Boyle, who was flung into the global media spotlight after stunning BGT audiences with her vocals, may already have psychological problems.

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Britain’s Got Talent judge Simon Cowell has called the media circus surrounding Susan Boyle a “soap opera”.

Boyle, 48, has constantly been in the headlines ever since her first audition, and over 100 million people have watched her performance on internet site YouTube.

But the singer has had to endure constant sniping from critics and reportedly flipped out in a recent foul-mouthed rant witnessed by hundreds of people in a London hotel.

According to fellow judge Piers Morgan’s blog, Cowell, 49, said to Morgan: “This is like a soap opera. I have never known anything like this in my whole career. It’s crazy.”

Morgan has defended Boyle in recent days and posted messages on his blog saying his “heart bleeds” for her after she was criticised in the press.

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