Susan Boyle says she doesn’t want a makeover
YouTube singing sensation takes comments on her looks in stride
Access Atlanta staff
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Is the world ready for a glammed-up Susan Boyle?
The website Daily Makeover and “Extra” combined to re-imagine the matronly singing sensation from “Britain’s Got Talent,” by digitally creating some new looks for the 47-year-old overnight YouTube star.
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Susan Boyle, whose performance on the television show ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ wowed the judges, poses singing with a hairbrush at her home in Blackburn, Scotland. The frumpy 47-year-old, who says she’s never been kissed, has gained celebrity fans and millions of admirers - including a fair number of men - since appearing on the show.
The new looks include one bob cut that recalls Jennifer Anniston’s early years on “Friends,” and the other a layered look that’s very Farrah.
Not everyone is thrilled with the idea. Amanda Holden, the fair blonde judge seen reacting to Boyle’s voice in the famous video, told the UK Mirror “I won’t let Simon Cowell take her to his dentist, and I certainly won’t let her near his hairdresser,” and that she “needs to stay exactly as she is because that’s the reason we love her. … The minute we turn her into a glamor-puss is when it’s spoiled.”
And what does the woman of the moment think of all this? On Friday’s “Larry King Live,” Boyle was asked, “Will you change the way you look? Would you change your hair, your dress, your style?”
She responded, “Why should I change? I’d be tweaking my identity.”
Meanwhile, despite the instant fame, Boyle remains just another contestant on the “Britain’s Got Talent” competition. And one of her competitors, 12-year-old Shasheen Jafargholi has become a YouTube hit in his own right. Will he be in need of a makeover too? Stay tuned.
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