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Spelling out Susan Boyle for the Americans!

Posted on Friday, December 11, 2009 at 04:30 PM

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Posted by Kelly Fincham at 5/11/2009 6:47 PM EDT

The British tabloid The Sun is having all sorts of fun with today's Oprah show featuring one Susan Boyle.
Apparently Boyle's Scottish accent was too thick for the audience and they had to subtitle her!
As you can imagine, The Sun's all outraged innocence exclaiming that "Every word had to be spelled out."
Producers might have had to spell out every word but the subtitles were dropped when Oprah interviewed Susan live by satellite.
hmm. Wonder what Oprah's show would do with someone from Kerry?!


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Oprah's audience is worldwide...so everyone watching got the subtitles not just the 'stupid' Americans. How narrow minded of the Brits.
 




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