Susan Boyle awarded honorary doctorate for her creativity
Posted on Saturday, June 30, 2012 at 09:28 AM
Larger Text
Print
E-mail
11 Comments
RSS 
Recent Posts
- One Direction star Harry Styles spent the night with Rod Stewart's daughter Kimberly
- 'Grey's Anatomy' star Patrick Dempsey would consider selling pot in his coffee shops
- ‘Silver Liver Playbook’ star Bradley Cooper is a hopeless romantic
- Niall Horan says eating Irish sausages and playing Croke Park will be ‘biggest moment’ in One Direction career
- One Direction's boys claim their tour bus is surprisingly boring
Archives
Susan Boyle is to be given an honorary doctorate for her contribution to the creative industries.
The 'Britain's Got Talent' reject will be honoured by Edinburgh's Queen Margaret University where she studied for a certificate in caring.
The degree is for work in society at large, which the university says reflects its commitment to the communities it serves.
Susan achieved international fame with her television debut in 2009 when she sang 'I Dreamed A Dream' from the musical 'Les Miserables'.
One YouTube clip of the performance from the Blackburn-born star has 21.5 million hits.
Her debut album, 'I Dreamed A Dream', was at the time the fastest-selling debut album ever.
With the release of two further albums, Susan has since sold around 18 million albums worldwide and has 120 platinum and gold albums across 38 countries.
She has sung on television in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Ireland and Japan, and performed for Pope Benedict XVI and the Queen.
Susan sang live to half a billion people on the TV show 'China's Got Talent'.
Also honoured in the university ceremony on July 6 will be psychologist Professor Colwyn Trevarthen, accountant Professor Ian Percy CBE and hotelier Norman Springford.
Earlier this month Susan had an emotional breakdown at a motorway services area.
Apparently she began screaming and weeping in front of shocked families following a stage performance of the 'I Dreamed A Dream' show that starred her in Manchester, England.
The 51-year-old - who has mild learning difficulties - is said to have unleashed a "torrent of abuse" at Knutsford Services in Cheshire.
11 Comments
See all comments
KathyMu | Jul 04, 2012, 09:49 PM EDT
divadqwn, you read it, idiot.
Report abuse
divadqwn | Jul 03, 2012, 01:32 PM EDT
who cares? no one even bothers to read about Susan Boyle anymore
Report abuse
divadqwn | Jul 03, 2012, 11:45 AM EDT
sugarpuddin, her torrent of abuse was screaming foul language at young children. I call that verbal abuse, what do you call it?
Report abuse
divadqwn | Jul 03, 2012, 11:39 AM EDT
thank you amy for your brilliant susan boyle farce story. love your sense of humour. a doctorate? hillarious
Report abuse
sugarpuddin | Jul 02, 2012, 03:18 PM EDT
Ah, "journalists". And trolls. Pity both. " One video has 21 million hits. True. Another has 96 million and if you take them all ( The audition ) together there are over 500 million. Puts a new light on it doesn't it. And if I am pissed off by this reporting (?) and say a few nasty words, which I did, I am not having a meltdown, I am just pissed. I get pissed all the time at fast food joints. Rarely go anymore. She didn't unleash a torrent of abuse. She told someone to F..k off. Like I am now telling you.
Report abuse
MalcomAC | Jul 01, 2012, 10:48 PM EDT
Articles like this one - that turns a positive article into a negative one - are why I rarely come to this site any more.
Report abuse
kinnaree | Jul 01, 2012, 08:03 PM EDT
What's good about all of this is, even more people are going to dispise her.
Report abuse
kinnaree | Jul 01, 2012, 08:01 PM EDT
LOL @ Amy for Britains Got Talent reject. That about sums it up. So where's the creativity? I don't get the joke.
Report abuse
KathyMu | Jun 30, 2012, 11:33 PM EDT
She sure is polison. Let's hope that her children turn out to be perfect. Of course if they take after their mother, well, I won't even go there.
Report abuse
polison | Jun 30, 2012, 10:58 PM EDT
Amy is quite a vicious b***ch. She had to use the word "reject" and mention the breakdown.
Report abuse
Report abuse