A month ago we couldn’t get enough of this new ‘hero’ Susan Boyle – a woman who shocked the nation by not being an anorexic twig draped in the latest Topshop fashion yet still housing an epic voice deep in her lungs.

However, over the past week or so, people have started to take aim at Su-Bo, with the British media claiming she’s quitting the show / having a mental breakdown / becoming a diva… all manner of tittle tattle to bring a cloud over what should be a momentous moment for British music.

Don’t get me wrong, when I saw Susan for the first time I did think she was going to be rubbish, but her performance has only gone to prove that we really shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover and assume that to be successful in the music business we should all look like Cheryl Cole and her band of girls.

I’d decided to keep out of the whole thing and let the public decide on Saturday night, but after seeing a ‘debate’ on the website of a leading British newspaper saying; “Look at that singer. You gotta be kidding me! The last time Demi [Moore - a Su-Bo Supporter] saw hair like Susan’s, it was in Tina Turner’s armpit…. For at best, Susan Boyle is a good-to-very-good music theatre singer. In her first audition, her rendition of I Dreamed A Dream from Les Miserables was terrific. This week’s performance of Memory from Cats? Rather less so. She is clearly a nice person -someone who has struggled all her life with learning difficulties – but she is not exactly Maria Callas.”

It then goes on to take a very personal attack on Susan; “And to be frank, the basis of her global fame is rooted in the fact that she is homely and plain, rather than glamorous and alluring. This is so patronising and invidious, particularly as the only person who does not realise this is poor Susan Boyle herself”

They also have a rather uncalled for pop at Amanda Holden when they comment on Amanda’s praise of Su-Bo; “ ‘This one little woman, from a tiny village in Scotland,’ said condescending judge Amanda Holden, who was wrong on both counts. Susan, in fact, is a big woman from a small town. Get it right, you star-spangled midget.”

The real clanger comes when the author discusses how much she hates the people involved in BGT, saying; “When the final BGT show is over, these rich, sophisticated people will climb back into their limousines, put the pedal to the metal and high-tail it back to the comfort of their well ordered lives, leaving scraggly Susan Boyle to her hairy fate. Yet how will it all end? Win or lose, what has become increasingly obvious is that Susan Boyle’s helter skelter journey down the flume of fame is going to have a very watery end. Whatever happens, it will end badly – and in tears.”

Personally I think these comments are 100% uncalled for from a publication who are supposed to be very supportive of women, and champion them making a name for themselves in such a male-dominated world… Susan Boyle might not be in FHM’s Top 100 Sexiest Women, and she might not have grasped how to deal with the media just yet, but let’s bear in mind, this woman has an incredible talent, and she is a ray of light in a time where the world looks so grey.

We’ve got your back Susan Boyle, we think you’re awesome.

Ruth. xx