Ouch! Susan Boyle's Lifelong Idol Calls Her a "Virus"

Amen to the other comments here. Elaine who? That is right Ms Paige- No one here heard of you until Susan mentioned you and you got the free ride here. You are jealous bec you know you are not as good as she is. I have watched your videos - no one would go see you here - while you can sing, and I guess act to some degree - you put down all of us here who brought you along for the ride as well only to find you talking bad about Susan who honored you with a gift that day - shame on you. Susan would sell out an arena whereas you might sell out a small hall if that here. Simon Cowell is trying to give people a chance and you put that down too. Would it have hurt you to have been kind or nice to speak well of your fellow Brit? So disappointing and so upsetting - your comments. The only virus here is you. You have infected us all with disgust and disappointment. Here in the US when we mention our Idols - that does not happen and they are honored often taking people under their wing to encourage and support, passing on their wealth of knowledge and experience. BUT NOT YOU - again Elaine who?

I have been entertaining as lnng as Elaine Paige has. She says SUsan is a flash in the pan and not a real singer. Let me ask - who in this countrty heard of Elaine Paige before Susan mentioned her anme. Who recalls the young woman in the audience who heard Susan say that and lipped the words "Who's Elaine Paige" as the skeptics mocked Susan. Susan gave Ms Paige the biggest kick upwars internationally she will ever receive. How many hits does Elaine Paige get on you tube or for that matter on any media. Who has ever seen her in America or considered her gret. I heard her original version of i dreamed a dream on You tube - only after Susan made the song even more famous that it was. Ms Paiges cersion was very small stage and powerless and without much feeling. She jsut sang much like a high quality high schools inger in a musical might. Nothng great. To confuse longevity and time Spent in the theater arena - with the calibre of singer - is bogus. Susan never proclaimed or wanted to be a theatrical performer. If she does fine - but her fans dont see her in that light -purely in her overall presence and quality of music - esp as related to her life story. The Beatles were not particularly outsandin musicians initially either - but they had tha somethimg that made us want to hear more - to want tos ee more. Ms Paige has never had that quality and now she is getting arrogant in her claim to be better than Susan Boyle when in reality she was just another performer until Susan sang with her and now all Susans fans know her too. She needs to review here rise to fame and her feeling of superiority because I've spent 50 years in music and if they both came to town - Susans tickets would sell out in a hearbeat and Elains would be playing a small casino. No cut on Elaine Paige but she needs to get her head back down where it ought tobe. Susan has earned her right because she took on and is succeeding at something she never expected. How many triple or quadruple platinum albums has Elaine go by the way. Time will tell who is the most memorable.

If Elaine Page thinks that she is so superior to Susan Boyle it didn't show when they performed together, if fact my wife and I thought Susan outshone her. All that Paige has proved is that she is a "snotty nosed" jealous individual who gets the English a bad name.

Typical of the media if they came in your house wet through and said it was raining outside you could not beleive them,your report was completly taken out of contex to what Elaine realy said, she is a great fan of Susan,

Ms Paige has an over inflated opinion of herself and no time for others coming into the profession, perhaps she has forgotten what it’s like to have an idol, she should be grateful that anyone still remembers her.

Well, you know ... I was going to write a nice commentary here. But basically everything I was thinking has been said over and over. And so I'd just like to say AMEN! to all of the comments that Paige is jealous, largely unheard of in the USA, catty and without class to say such things about Boyle. Paige has apparently had quite a bit of time in her spotlight, and probably still does, so let Boyle have her own. One should bot detract from the other. People can choose to be a fan of BOTH, if they wish. Although, with such rude behavior, I have to wonder if Paige might lose a few just due to her lack of character.

I was rather shocked at Elaine Paige's comments about Susan Boyle - what arrogance! Elaine Paige is NOT very well known outside the UK; so many people have asked, Who is she? Thanks to Susan Boyle, Elaine Paige is much better known today - she should be thanking Susan Boyle for the free advertising.

What a witch of a comment Elaine Paige -jelousey is a course and a belly aches worse. You should try looking after a parent for years and putting your life on hold eh!

Wow, what’s up with Elaine Paige saying stuff like this about Susan Boyle? Who the hell does she think she is? She was so quick to jump on the Susan Boyle bandwagon, doing the television special with her, when she thought it might get her some exposure or money or whatever. But that’s probably it – she’s got AGING DIVA syndrome. Her star is fading, big time. How dare some upstart like Susan even think she could come close to the heights that EP has hit in her career!!! Yeah, right! I think EP’s problem is that EP is really a nobody outside of England. When I watched the you tube video of BGT and Susan said she wanted to be like EP, I thought, ‘Who the heck is EP?’ EP may be very famous in Britain, but 90% of Americans have never even heard of her. But 90% of Americans have now heard of and embraced Susan Boyle. As for EP calling Susan ‘a virus’, well a remark like that shows that EP has no class whatsoever. EP makes Simon Cowell look like the kindest man in the world. The real virus, Elaine Paige, is people like you who think they’re better than everyone else. There's too much of that in the world. You're entitled to your opinions, but if they're hurtful and make you look like the big fool you obviously are, you should keep them to yourself.

what a cow she is just jealous she'll never be as famous as susan boyle