Susan Boyle: My cat won't let me move house!

Susan Boyle: My cat won't let me move house!
Susan Boyle: My cat won't let me move house!

Britain's Got Talent runner-up Susan Boyle has revealed she has no plans to move out of her old council home - as it would upset her cat Pebbles. Speaking to the News Of The World the 48-year-old - whose debut album I Dreamed A Dream has broken pre-release sales records - said she planned to buy the property in Blackburn, West Lothian, to remain near her family. "I don't want to be moving an inch away from my family, and Pebbles doesn't want to move," she said. "She's lived there all her life and cats hate upping sticks." I'm the wee wifey with the mop and the cat next door. It's what keeps me grounded - remembering I am just that wifey. And Pebbles would hate to live anywhere posh." Boyle will be seen performing her debut single Wild Horses on The X Factor results show on Sunday night - however the performance has been pre-recorded as she is flying to the US today where her album has already gone gold ahead of its release on Monday. And despite having a rough time after the final of the talent show - when she was admitted to The Priory clinic suffering from exhaustion - Boyle said she was now loving the celebrity life. "Life is now much more calm," she said. "I'm not so lonely now and I'm not so cooped up, I'm part of the world and I find it really exciting."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.