Susan Boyle gets Hollywood treatment for US glossy magazine

Published on Wednesday 5 August 2009 22:03

WHEN Susan Boyle last treated herself to a make-over it involved a £35 hair-do at her local Blackburn salon, a dodgy black leather jacket and a strategically placed Burberry scarf. What a difference an American glossy magazine can make.

Groomed by a personal coiffeur, and wrapped in a Donna Karan sweater, the singer, when asked about the attention lavished by Harper's Bazaar magazine, replied: "As long as I don't break the camera."

The Scottish contestant who came second in Britain's Got Talent but won over 100 million fans on YouTube took a break from recording her debut album to be whisked off to Cliveden, the country house outside London, now a hotel, where Christine Keeler once frolicked naked in the pool during the Profumo scandal.

Ms Boyle was more sedate, but she did attempt to moonwalk in a pair of Giuseppe Zanotti high heels and posed in a striking Michael Kors dress.

The singer features in the magazine's September issue, the biggest issue of the year, and reveals that it was the death of her mother in 2007 that she had firmly in mind when she sang I Dreamed A Dream, at the audition in Glasgow that subsequently made her name.

She told the magazine: "I did the audition for her because she always wanted me to make something of my life, but I had to wait a bit because her death prevented me from singing for a while. I couldn't put my heart into it. So I was singing about wanting things to be like they were before she went.

"You know, it was a double-edged sword because it was about what I wanted to do, but it was also about wanting to turn back to when she was with me."