The extraordinary reaction to her audition for the ITV show has been picked up across the
Miss Boyle, a 47-year-old church volunteer, has been invited to sing on the Oprah Winfrey Show. She has already appeared on the popular Today programme, where host Kathie Lee Gifford was moved to tears by her story, and has received hundreds more invitations from US television and radio stations.
At the auditions, her performance of I Dreamed A Dream from Les Miserables drew a standing ovation and gasps of admiration from an audience which initially sniggered at her dowdy appearance. Piers Morgan, one of the judges, said her singing was "without a doubt the biggest surprise" in the show's history. The number of YouTube hits from several videos of the performance posted online is twice as high as the number of people who watched the programme on ITV.
Her fans include Demi Moore, the Hollywood actress, who wrote on her Twitter page that she had cried while watching the clip. Miss Boyle spent much of her life caring for her mother, who died in 2007. She now lives with her cat, Pebbles, and told the programme that she had "never been married, never been kissed".
Magazines are clamouring to give the devoutly religious spinster a glamorous makeover.
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