Comments on: Bunny Boyler: Susan Boyle Checks Into Rehab

By: June

June — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:00:56 +0000

C&C

Dignitas will do a roaring trade in about 15 years time when Ms Perfectionista can’t cope with wrinkles, being 35 or the first greying hair and sagging and regards it as a terminal illness

By: coolandcalm

coolandcalm — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:52:59 +0000

I think BGT was wrong for its cynical use of children for the aahhh factor but I don’t think its to blame for SuBo’s (sorry percy) meltdown. That is all down to the spiteful press coverage IMO. ‘Hairy Angel’? how disrespectful to a woman is that? and that was the least of it.

The whole emphasis on appearance goes on across all the papers and mags and is v.scary and v. hitleresque. The only acceptable appearance is perfection? The only acceptable age is young? How long before the cull starts?

By: lyn

lyn — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:52:50 +0000

Susan has spoken to her purring Pebbles and now feels a lot better. Once Susan is home and gets on with life in lovely Scotland, she will be 100% again. There is no doubt lessons have been learnt here and all she needs now is a good manager!

By: dairy

dairy — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:36:06 +0000

GMTV this morning, Amanda Holden confirmed that SuBo’s doctors have said there is nothing wrong with her mental state….

By: June

June — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:19:14 +0000

Cheryl

Its the gutter press, they put someone on a pedestal just to kick them off.
I’m sure its just to sell their er product, used to be handy before everyone had indoor loos - it could be read then used to wipe bums with (the upper cl(assses) had to make do with Bronco and Izal) which came in leaflets or on a roll, and was jolly uncomfortable.
Another use for newspaper was lining drawers , stuffing in wet shoes and wrapping fish and chips in, and as firelighters.
I almost forgot! puppy training!

BUT there’s the internet now and sales have dropped, so they have freebies and tittletattle

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:07:55 +0000

This is not pointed at any of you so please don’t think it is, but what gives over there with your newspapers? They seem to thrive on destroying people’s lives by their more times than not printing every little bit of negativity they can get their hands on or even just hear and then embellishing on it with less than truthful reporting. They don’t check out facts; they write outrageous headlines to suit the story they want to write or fabricate to grab the public’s attention. They have absolutely no code of honour nor take moral responsibility over there in what or how they report a story.

We have papers over here also with no morals or compunctions on what they write but the majority of the major newspapers check out facts and don’t go out of their way to destroy people’s lives on a daily basis in their headlines.

By: June

June — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:02:20 +0000

Found this, quite interesting for this thread

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8077075.stm

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:40:33 +0000

He was good and made no excuses and admitted to the concern on her emotional well-being before the final. One thing he talked about, which there is no doubt in mind the absolute truth, was her reactions and depressions brought on by that last week of negativity reporting by the UK papers. He did say she is not as bad shape as the papers are reporting she had in fact recognized that she needed ‘a rest’ and asked for help. He said she did not have a break down but was emotionally exhausted. It is true as he pointed out, she was woman from a very small town, lived more or less a simple life of quiet and some solitude and then the past 7 weeks of non stop publicity world-wide, interviews, newspaper reports daily on her every move would have been more than enough to have negative effect on anyone least of all a woman who lived the life she had prior to be thrown in the lime light non-stop.

BGT has their share of blame in this but the UK papers gave her that final push over the edge when they just had to report daily on their front pages to sell their newspapers every bit of negativity the reporters could get their slimy hands on.

By: June

June — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:20:38 +0000

Hold on a tick Cheryl, here’s some rotten tomatoes to pelt at him….

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:09:04 +0000

Here is the article, June, Piers Morgan allegedly quoted.

By the way, news coverage all over TV here and all the newscaster are very upset and worried about SuBo@. Tell you something, this does not look good for BGT, as well it shouldn’t! Piers is due on the news channel in about 10 min. to give an update.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1189820/Susan-Boyle-comforted-psychiatrists-ahead-final-Britains-Got-Talent-performance.htm

By: June

June — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:41:25 +0000

dairy

I saw only excerpts on the news about her first stage appearance, and I did notice the howling baying mob that made up the audience.
Her seeming confidence to stand there and take it, well she knows she’s good, but I hope some barrier was up to deflect the crap
Talent shows just don’t appeal to me anyway, but the general feeling I got was she was casting pearls before swine, and if any good comes out of it I hope she gets the lions share, and I don’t mean just financially.

Lyn
I just hope some kindly soul took her to a beauticians/hairdresser to stop the sniggering masses, and she hasn’t read anything untoward about herself

By: dairy

dairy — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:17:21 +0000

I agree, June - BGT and those associated with it don’t seem to understand (or even care) that just because someone has a talent, like Susan Boyle, Paul Potts, little Shaheen etc, it doesn’t mean that they are temperamentally suited to lead that kind of life and cope with the sort of media intrusion that follows - and it isn’t always pleasant. Judy Garland and Marilyn Monroe spring to mind immediately as examples of wonderful talent made completely miserable by the ensuing attention and parasitic draining of them by others keen to get on the fame bandwagon.
who is there to look after them on a day-to-day basis, to advise and protect in a genuine way, rather than for personal gain?
the BGT personnel - Simon Cowell included - are probably already looking ahead to the next intake of applicants and the next influx of cash as a consequence.

what disturbed me about BGT this year was the speed at which Susan Boyle was catapulted to fame - it didn’t happen to Paul Potts and the reason for that was that the internet comms like Twitter weren’t really so prevalent then. The poor woman had no time to adjust to anything before she is being called on the phone on a daily basis by celebrities she has only previously read about in papers - if that doesn’t blow her mind then the paps permanently camped outside her door will….
there also seems to be a policy by BGT of finding the weirdest or most useless to go through into the TV stages, along with the genuinely talented. This is unlike X Factor, which although it has its knockers, weeds out the crap by the time it gets to any serious stage.
also - was it just me or did the audiences this year sound just like a howling mob?? is this something actively encouraged by the programme, because they didn’t seem to be doing much to stop it.

BGT would do well to look at the ethical side of what they are doing and stop treating these people like disposable freaks. Will they be looking after Susan Boyle’s interests in 12 months’ time? I very much doubt it…..

By: lyn

lyn — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:07:26 +0000

Coolandcalm - the autism subject was broached a while ago before all this happened. That alone, if she read about it in the papers (its reported here in Australia) would hurt her feelings. Susan went and had her brows done and obviously a facial, plus the hair do. Having to do that alone would be a big step for someone who has lived in obscurity. She was just Susan before all that. Do hope she recovers soon though.

By: June

June — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:54:24 +0000

Whatever her problems are , I think BGT and its entire production team are going to have far worse problems unless and until they seriously get their act together and just don’t allow this sort of event to happen again. I thought the way she was treated on stage was cruel, whether she could perform well or not, the ridicule and then the play acting ’surprise’ was nauseating.
And the fact one poor soul is in rehab because of it.
The wider audience may have taken her to their hearts, but will it do any good?

By: coolandcalm

coolandcalm — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:24:52 +0000

June yes. She is definitely on the autistic specturm.

Lyn… Learning Disability doesn’t mean ‘can’t learn’. The phrase covers the whole gamut from mild behavioural issues to severe cerebral palsy. Its the new phraseology for the old phraseology ‘Mental Handicap’.
Someone with say Aspergers (a form of autism) can have a far higher IQ than the rest of us but still have a Learning Disability
Music and autism go together in many cases…. Susan Boyle deserves better from the public. The money is irrelevant to her, she just wants to sing. I hope they leave her to find her own level now, a level she can deal with.
.

By: dairy

dairy — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:53:46 +0000

I think it is unlikely that she has autism or any other condition - before the programme started she was a completely anonymous oddity in her Scottish village, laughed at by kids and ignored by many.
then, in a matter of weeks, she is transported to the type of celebrity level only usually accorded to those who have been around the industry for quite some time.
of course she is behaving oddly, the poor woman has no idea how to cope with the situation and the intensely intrusive media attention, which is often difficult enough for those who court it, never mind someone plucked from obscurity…
surrounded by sycophants who all want a piece of her, she won’t know what to do or who to trust - Susan Boyle is scared out of her wits, and very understandably so…..

By: June

June — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:39:41 +0000

I think she has a degree of autism, think the euphemism ‘learning disability’ covers that too?

By: lyn

lyn — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:13:17 +0000

Now its reported Susan - wait for it - was oxygen starved at birth and has a slight learning problem. Well, this lady can sing from memory with words in front, so where is her slight learning problem. Hopefully, Susan will recover, get a good manager, make lots of money, and live happily ever after.

By: June

June — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:59:48 +0000

The great British public used to have Bedlam as entertainment, now its BGT.

Seriously they should rethink the whole thing if they do have all those professionals on hand ‘in case’
I just hope the poor woman isn’t being built up just to have a good kicking on the way down

By: coolandcalm

coolandcalm — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:36:17 +0000

They’ve poked and prodded her, picked away until the inevitable. Of course she went a bit loopy, that is her temperament.
Gee we can be so nasty to anyone who is slightly outside of the ‘normal’ spectrum and hence doesn’t react as we expect.
What happened to the old saying ‘it takes all sorts’? Not in the 21st century it seems.