Apr 292009

Susan Boyle is, to make a mammoth understatement, Reality TV’s new sensation. The “Daily Mail” even carried a story that Catherine Zeta-Jones, the glamorous star of films like “The mask of Zorro” was going to play the “Britain’s Got Talent” star in an upcoming move (!) on her life. Boyle is much like Paul Potts, a salesman who made Simon Cowell’s jaw drop back when Britain’s Got Talent used to be British Idol, but there’s somehow a bigger hullaballoo over Susan Boyle, more flash bulbs going off, more blog-tongues wagging. I mean no one ever started the rumour that Brad Pitt was going to play Potts, did they?


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