Boyle's final place 'totally unexpected'
Updated on 25 May 2009
Britain's Got Talent singer Susan Boyle has said her progression to the show's final was "totally unexpected".
The Scottish performer, now rated as favourite to win by the bookies, performed another show classic on Sunday night - Memory from musical Cats.
Boyle, 48, said: "I'm feeling really good because it was a totally unexpected result."
She said she had overcome an uncertain start to her performance.
"It was a fairly rocky start to begin with, because to begin with I sort of had a croaky note but that was because I had a cold.
"I said to myself 'well you'd better just pick yourself up and keep going'. So all I did was just keep going and after that it just got better. The audience reaction was really stunning."
Boyle, from Blackburn, west Lothian, said Sunday's show was "completely different" from her audition.
She added: "The pressure was really on me but you tend to ignore the fact that other people are watching and just concentrate on what's happening in the here and now in that particular studio."
The singer is now looking forward to the final to "fulfil this dream and see it through to the end."
Dance group Diversity is the other act that made it through to the final from Sunday night's semi-final.
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