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BBC: Street dance group Diversity has been crowned the winner of this year's Britain's Got Talent in a shock victory over favourite Susan Boyle. The 10-strong group from Essex fell to the floor and cried in surprise when they were told they had won. ... The story does not say what Boyle sung or whether she had a poor performance. The Sun has more on the competition.

BBC: Scottish singer Susan Boyle has secured a place in the final of ITV's Britain's Got Talent, after performing live on television for the first time. The 48-year-old from West Lothian became a worldwide sensation after her audition performance of I Dreamed A Dream was screened last month. ... When Ms Boyle heard the result of the public vote - after her rendition of Memory from the musical, Cats - she gave a victory dance for the studio audience. When the show's hosts, Ant and Dec, asked her how she had coped with the pressure, she said: "What pressure, I really enjoyed myself, I enjoyed every second. I'd do it again!" ... I think the most difficult thing for the producers of this show is keeping the final results a mystery. Most people who heard her first performance thought she should have been named the winner that night. The NY Times reports that the producers of the show have so far not made much money off Boyle's success.

The Daily Record UK has a clip from 1984 where Susan sings The Way We Were .

BBC: Singer Elaine Paige has paid tribute to Susan Boyle, the Britain's Got Talent contestant turned global phenomenon. "It seems her performance has really captured the hearts of everyone who saw it, me included," said the star. Boyle, a 47-year-old from West Lothian in Scotland, spoke of Paige prior to her rendition of I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miserables on the ITV1 show. Paige, 60, has now returned the favour, describing Boyle as "a role model for everyone who has a dream". "Ever since Susan's appearance on Britain's Got Talent my inbox has been flooded with e-mails," said the actress on her BBC Radio Two show on Sunday afternoon. Perhaps we should record a duet?" she continued. "I will continue to watch and I hope you make it to the final," she told Boyle. "I wish you every success." ... I would like to see them get together. It is interesting how little opposition there is to boy...

Sunday Times: One moment Susan Boyle was “just another 47-year-old Scottish virgin”, reported the Los Angeles Times. Then came her “stunning weekend musical debut”, recounted AFP, the French news agency. Days later she was an “international singing sensation” with more than 25m hits on YouTube, the video-sharing site, announced the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Now everyone wants a piece of the “dowdy singing spinster” from West Lothian, who dumbfounded the judges and wowed the audience of ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent with her stirring rendition of I Dreamed a Dream from Les Misérables. Hollywood agents and chat show bookers are beating a path to her door. ... In person she is polite and friendly, with a hint of shyness when asked to elaborate on her onscreen confession that she had never had a boyfriend or been kissed: “Oh, I was just joking around. It was just banter and it has been blown out of all proportion. All I wanted to say is that I am single at the moment but I keep w...

Scotsman: CRACKING America is regarded as the Holy Grail for even the biggest of British names. The Beckhams, Oasis and Robbie Williams have all struggled to make it big across the pond. But in the space of five days, Susan Boyle has gone from being an unknown unemployed karaoke singer to reality TV show contestant – and now a transatlantic sensation. The devout Catholic from Blackburn, West Lothian, who is single and lives with her cat, is the woman Simon Cowell predicts will go to number one if she releases an album in the US. The 48-year-old has already notched up 18 million hits on YouTube following her three-minute rendition of I Dreamed A Dream from Les Miserables on Britain's Got Talent last Saturday night. Now American news website MSNBC has logged a further seven million hits on the clip of her wowing judges Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan at her Britain's Got Talent audition. Kathie Lee Gifford, the presenter of Good Morning America, was moved...