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Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle has threatened to quit Britain's Got Talent as the pressure mounts ahead of the show's final. Judge Piers Morgan said Boyle, who rose to international fame after her first appearance on the ITV talent show, will appear in the final on Saturday but went as far as packing her bags on Wednesday.
Boyle, 48, was propelled into the spotlight following her audition for the show, singing 'I Dreamed A Dream' from the musical Les Miserables, and has become a global internet sensation, scoring millions of hits on YouTube.
Her celebrity supporters include Hollywood star Demi Moore - who has been offered tickets by judge Simon Cowell to fly in from the US for the final. But Morgan has said Boyle, from Blackburn, West Lothian, has been struggling to cope with her new-found stardom and thought about quitting the show to escape the attention.
Writing on his web blog, he jumped to her defence after she lost her temper in the lobby of the Wembley Plaza Hotel in north London. He said "frightened rabbit" Boyle had been in "floods of tears" and had fleetingly felt like throwing in the towel to escape all the attention.
He wrote: "Susan is finding it very, very difficult to cope, and to stay calm. She has been in tears many times during the last few days, and even, fleetingly, felt like quitting the show altogether at one point and fleeing all the attention."
Meanwhile, saxophonist Julian Smith, 39, and grandfather and granddaughter singing duo Two Grand, aka John Neill and granddaughter Sallie Lax, aged 76 and 12, won the penultimate semi-final.
The last two acts to compete for the top spot will be selected in the fourth semi-final later and will see DCD Seniors, Dreambears, Martin Matcham, Aidan Davies, Good Evans, Hollie Steel and Luke Clements take to the stage to secure the last two places.
The lucky acts will join Boyle, father-and-son performers Stavros Flatley, aka Demetrios and Michalakis Demetriou, 12-year-old singer Shaheen Jafargholi, dance groups Flawless and Diversity and singer Shaun Smith in the grand final on Saturday night. The hopefuls will battle it out for a prize of £100,000 and a chance to perform in front of the Queen at the Royal Variety Performance.
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