“Britain's Got Talent” judge Amanda Holden has apologized – sort of – to the Susan Boyle fans who are outraged at her cruel portrayal of Susan Boyle in a recent British television show.

The apology was so half-hearted and such a throwaway line that it will mean nothing to the legion of SuBo fans who are appalled at how Amanda has risen to fame on the back of Susan Boyle and has returned the favor by cruelly aping her.

Scrolling back over Amanda’s references to Susan, however, something becomes crystal clear: She's jealous as hell of SuBo and that underlines her reaction to her.

Before Susan Boyle was a complete worldwide phenomenon back in May, Amanda made some telling remarks predicting that Susan would fail.

Here is what she told the News of the World, the tabloid rag she is currently writing for: “She’ll be an instant international superstar – but I don’t think she’ll have longevity. She could nail it or kill it on the night. She might not be as good as she was on that first night and people put that performance on a pedestal.

"I think it can go either way. We’ve built her up and the public could go, ‘She’s too big for her boots, she’s too cocky.’ She isn’t. But we don’t like too much success. It’s a shame. But she’s got the Scottish vote and I think the British public are still very much on her side.”

Later in May she predicted that Susan Boyle would have a breakdown and congratulated herself when it happened. With friends like these!

Talk about faint praise and the green eyed monster! It can hardly be clearer when you dissect those words that Holden was revealing a deep insight that she didn't really like the fact that Susan had been so
successful and she was a mere bystander to fame.

That has all changed now of course since Susan took wing and Amanda, with her CBS contract and News of the World column, has come along for the ride. She probably feels she no longer needs Susan and
can make headlines by lampooning her.

But I think the Boyle backlash among Susan’s fans caught her by surprise. The followers of the "Scot heard around the world" were not about to let Holden get away with it.

 I think with Susan what you see is what you get, a decent honest person who has found fame and fortune but has not changed.

With Amanda it is hidden behind a wall of botox and flim-flammery concealing her
true naked ambition.