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Susan axe threat
29/5/09

SINGER Susan Boyle faces the axe from tomorrow's final of Britain's Got Talent amid fears she is cracking up under the pressure.
The Scottish spinster, 48, has alarmed bosses with her erratic behaviour - including swearing at cops.

A source said: "The last thing producers want is a meltdown on national TV. It's been made clear that if she's not right mentally, she won't appear in the final."

The troubled star has been given a secret bolt-hole as bosses whisked her away from the limelight's glare.

The singer's increasingly strange behaviour has sparked fears that she may suffer a breakdown - or be axed from tomorrow's final.

So favourite Susan was driven away from the Wembley Plaza Hotel in North London and taken to a hideaway.

A source said: "Show bosses told us to get Susan's mind right because there are genuine concerns about her health. She desperately needs breathing space.

"The idea is to get into a place where her privacy is better managed than at a hotel. She'll be totally shielded from people other than her closest advisors."

The spinster - whose first performance has had 286 million hits on YouTube - has lived a sheltered life in the village of Blackburn, West Lothian.

On Wednesday she packed her bags and threatened to QUIT the show because of the pressures of her new-found fame but was persuaded to carry on.

Yesterday she was interviewed by police over a tearful tantrum at the hotel in which she swore at officers after claiming two strangers tried to "wind her up".

Hours earlier she screamed "f*** off" and flicked a V-sign at the TV in the hotel bar as she watched judge Piers Morgan tell Shaheen Jafargholi, 12, he had given the "best singing performance so far".

Last night Piers said: "Yesterday she was actually going to leave the show, packed her bags to go because she couldn't see the point in going on."

Writing on his blog, Piers said: "Susan is finding it very difficult to cope, and to stay calm. She has been in tears many times during the last few days, and even felt like quitting altogether and fleeing all the attention."

He added: "Susan Boyle is a very kind, generous-hearted, lady who has had a pretty tough life. But she's always, according to people who knew her well, been a fun-loving woman who would do anything to help others.

"I'm not saying she's a saint. But I am saying that before all this fuss, Susan was generally considered to be a genuinely lovely person - albeit, one with a lively, feisty character, and a wonderfully eccentric sense of humour."

Susan's family believe show bosses should have acted sooner.

Brother John, 59, said: "She has been constantly hounded by fans for the past seven weeks. Like anyone she has a breaking point - she is only human after all.

"If I were in Simon Cowell's shoes I would tell Susan she wouldn't be allowed on the show unless she got her act together.

"Celebrities have professional people who insulate them from these stresses but she hasn't had this protection. The show's producers should have been looking after her more."

Susan is dubbed Rambo in her home town because of her fiery temper, but John insisted the abuse she gave police was out of character.


He said: "Susan used to get picked on and bullied when she was younger. She never reacted.

"This is a completely one-off incident and won't affect Susan in the slightest."

Bookies William Hill last night said punters were easing off backing Susan after her hotel outburst.

They also offered odds of 10/1 that she SWEARS during the live final. She is still 5/6 to win, but Shaheen's odds were cut to 6/1.

Meanwhile it emerged Susan had made a secret dash home between rehearsals - because she was missing her cat Pebbles.

She visited the ten-year-old moggy on Monday, then flew back to London the same day.