So, as you all surely know, in the end global superstardom wasn't enough to ensure Susan Boyle took the 'Britain's Got Talent' gong for 2009. Amid reports Boyle's fans became complacent, so sure were they that she'd win, and therefore failed to phone in, it was rather fab 'street dance' group Diversity who took the £100,000 in prize money and won the chance to perform at this year's Royal Variety Show.
It has to be said, however good a singer the unconventionally packaged Boyle may be, the self-choreographed Diversity boys did do a better job of demonstrating undeniable original 'talent', which does sometimes win through in talent contents like this. On occasion.
Nevertheless, Boyle is set to make millions. Simon Cowell's Syco label will sign the Scottish warbler any day now, with a debut album expected to sell millions of copies, not least in the US where the news media's appetite for the showtune singing spinster seems as hungry as ever. A biopic is also being touted, which might be a bit OTT, though some sort of book-based biography is sure to be rushed to market.
Meanwhile, Diversity are coming to terms with the shock of winning the show. Great things are being predicted for them too, though obviously their route to global superstardom is less obvious, and not so much within Cowell's area of expertise, though last year's dancing 'BGT' winner George Sampson has had some success. And if I was promoting Michael Jackson's upcoming O2 residency, I'd be on the phone to Cowell this morning. They'd be a great local addition to what is, after all, expected to be a Jacko-lite show.