Susan Boyle Scam - Is She a Fraud?

Recent singing sensation Susan Boyle has recently been called out by several websites and other people who are saying Susan Boyle's a scam, a fraud. If you first saw her singing on Britain's Got Talent, she was laughed and made faces at by the crowd and even the various people on the panel of judges. She had a quirky way about her, and unfortunately by many standards, she didn't quite have the diva-singer looks needed to take off in the business today. However, despite all that she belted out a moving rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Miserables, and shocked the Britain's Got Talent judges, audience and the rest of the world. The YouTube video has now received millions of views.

But was Susan's amazing performance and shocking appearance on Britain's Got Talent really a scam? Was it all too good too be true, and staged for the show? The website Paddy Power from Boyle's native Ireland is suspicious:

Cynics among us will suggest there was something fishy about Susan Boyle's appearance on Britain's Got Talent - and we don't mean her body odour. Some have implicated that her doughty appearance and simple lifestyle were exaggerated to increase the impact of her majestic voice. With Ant and Dec involved, we bet the price of a phone call that it was. Some 30 million YouTube hits later, the Scottish beauty and 48 year old virgin has a world audience and is to go on a date with Piers Morgan. Morgan said Boyle had "great appeal and charm" and invited her out as both were interviewed on American talk show Larry King Live. Cherries for desert? Is backing Boyle to top the US Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart in 2009 @ 2/1 virgin on the ridiculous?

The New York Post also recently had an article with the title Why is No One Suspicious of Susan Boyle? in which they also question the whole saga's credibility:

There is the clip itself, suspiciously ready-made for online consumption: A 7-minute movie, slick and pithy in its perfect execution of the underdog narrative. (That something like "Rocky" took two hours to tell now seems antediluvian.) There is the classic David vs. Goliath subplot, the primal satisfaction of seeing the bully (Cowell) slain by such a seemingly inferior force. And there is the profound desire for this entire thing to be authentic, which in and of itself suggests that it probably isn't. Not since P.T. Barnum has there been a show business master of the trompe l'oeil like Simon Cowell.

So is Miss Boyle really a scam artist? Is this all really just Simon Cowell playing a great big Punk'd trick on the cruel world? Until any evidence of a Susan Boyle scam is revealed, her performance and story continue to captivate the world. Stay tuned for more news on Susan Boyle and her amazing story!