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 Reprinted from British newspaper The Beaver: Overnight Internet sensation and YouTube star Susan Boyle, who wowed audience members and judges alike with her surprisingly non-ugly rendition of "I Dreamed A Dream" from Andrew Lloyd Weber's "Les Miserables," has been receiving death threats from an underground group calling themselves "The Clear Channel."
"Miz Boyle (sic) should stop performing in public places, she should stop going out in the open, she should stop making a spectacle of herself as it is against god and against the will of the people," said a letter from the group delivered to the Times of London.
The group expressed fear that the "Boyle Effect" could snowball, leading other ugly people to come out of their homes and onto public streets and television shows.
"This is no Cinderella story," an observer close to the story said. "Cinderella was good-looking. We can't have people like Susan Boyle living happily ever after, because it's just not fair to raise the hopes of ugly people like that. It's cruel. Cruel and ugly, actually," the source said.
Being brutally killed, or even just mercilessly beaten, some theorize, could potentially be the happiest ending of all for Boyle. "She'd go from overnight sensation to eternal legend," says Simon Cowell, a judge on "Britain's Got Talent," the program that showcased Boyle's freakish, frightening features and may have unwittingly endangered her life.
"If Boyle were to be killed, and we were to do a tribute program, the entertainment value would be phenomenal," said Jared Johnstone, the show's producer. "That being said, we wish Miss Boyle the best and hope that the perpetrators of this threat are brought to justice. We are even offering a reward for their capture and plan to feature them on the show, pending a successful audition," Johnstone added.
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