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Susan Boyle, who wasn’t even the winner of Britain’s Got Talent, seems to be enjoying more success than the group that did win it. She sang for the first time on American television the other day, performing on the final of the American version of the show.

It’s interesting … the winners of such shows have long since disappeared – or, at least, the majority of them have. Even when you count things like X-Factor, which is even bigger here than the talent show. On top of the performance, apparently she has an album coming out soon, so she has certainly done a lot better than some of her peers.

She first shot to fame last year, and it was a sort of hyper-fame, not just a shooting star sort of fame that dies a week or so afterwards. It sounds rude, but a lot of the other contestants were forgettable – she, on the other hand, will probably still be hailed in the street. Indeed, it appears as though there were over a thousand people waiting for her when her plane landed in the USA.

It certainly seems to be the case that she’s more famous across the pond than she is here in the UK. I’m not sure quite why … although I wouldn’t be surprised to find out it was something to do with the power of Twitter. Ashton Kutcher was quick to get join her bandwagon, and he has about five galfrillion followers on there who would have been wowed by her initial performance.

And let’s be honest, it was pretty special.