Susan Boyle to spend New Year in Japan!

Susan Boyle to spend New Year in Japan!
Susan Boyle to spend New Year in Japan! (Image credit: PA Archive/Press Association Ima)

Britain's Got Talent sensation Susan Boyle will see in 2010 performing on a Japanese TV show - in a bid to boost her profile in the Far East. The Mirror reports that the 48-year-old - who has sold more than six million albums worldwide - will be appearing on the country's biggest New Year's Eve programme, singing a traditional Japanese song. "Kohaku Uta Gassen is a massive show watched by millions," a source close to the singer said, "and lots of them who have seen Susan on You Tube will now get to see a new very special performance "Susan has been practising a Japanese folk song called Wings To Fly, which she is hoping to perform live for the first time." The song originally appeared as a bonus song on the Japanese version of her album I Dreamed A Dream, which is number one in the album charts there despite the fact Boyle has never been to Japan or been promoted there. Earlier in the week Boyle - who spend Christmas with her family back in West Lothian, Scotland - said she was the happiest she had ever been. 2It's been an absolutely brilliant year and I can't thank everyone enough for the support I've been given here and around the world," she told the Mirror. "I am the happiest I have been. God has been very important to me."

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.