As if a hit album and worldwide adoration weren’t enough – Susan Boyle has achieved her dream of singing with her musical idol.
The Scottish singer, 48, looked overcome with joy as she teamed up with Elaine Paige to sing the latter’s hit duet I Know Him So Well.
The pairing was kept secret from Miss Boyle until shortly before the performance, which was for a TV special that charts her rise to fame this year.
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She dreamed a dream: Susan Boyle with her idol Elaine Paige in the ITV special I Dreamed A Dream: The Susan Boyle Story
Afterwards, the Britain’s Got Talent runner-up said: ‘I never thought I would see myself standing on the same stage with such an icon from West End theatre, let alone singing with her as an equal.’
Miss Paige added: ‘It was a pleasure to finally sing with Susan, she was a delight to work with and I think we more than did justice to one of my favourite songs.’
The Scottish singer has previously admitted singing along to Paige’s music, alone, in front of her bedroom mirror, equipped with a hairbrush for a microphone.
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When she first auditioned for Britain’s Got Talent, the judges asked what her dream was, and answered that she wanted to sing like Elaine Paige.
But Miss Boyle, nicknamed SuBo, also showed her mischievous side on her hour-long special.
During her ballad Who I Was Born To Be, she wheeled away from the microphone, threw her arms around and jigged across the stage to cheers from the audience.
And when producers asked her to film the song a second time, she did the same thing again.
Miss Boyle has sold three million copies of her debut album worldwide and could top 4.5million in the next week.
Christmas number 1? Susan’s album looks set to top the seasonal charts
The TV special, called I Dreamed A Dream: The Susan Boyle Story, is likely to cement the album in the No.1 slot for the Christmas chart.
It will be broadcast on Sunday night after The X Factor final.
Meanwhile, Polydor Records have announced plans to release a digital offering of the Stones’ popular Wild Horses track.
The track will be part of a bundle that includes a live version taken from the popular ‘Stripped’ album plus a video of a live performance of the track from Knebworth in 1976.
Wild Horses was recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama over three days in December 1969 and was the last of three songs completed at those sessions, after Brown Sugar and You Gotta Move.
Big moment: Piers will present Susan with a gold disc during the show
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