Cowell's wretched programme BGT encourages the audience to mimic the stylized, and many would claim rehearsed, mockery of the judges to some contestents and then turns the cameras on them.


Norman D wrote - 'I fear also for those who have become so obsessed with her that any criticism or contradiction is treated with anger'

From a news report at the end of April

'A SCOTS teenager has become the unwitting victim of a global hate campaign ... for making faces at internet singing star Susan Boyle.

She was seen rolling her eyes when the singer told Britiain's Got Talent judges her ambition was to be as successful as West End star Elaine Paige.

A clip of the audition at the SECC, watched almost 100m times on YouTube, has provoked dozens of abusive and threatening posts against the teenager, nicknamed the 1:24 girl because she appears just under one and a half minutes into the footage.

One reads: "Talk about never judging a book by it's cover. Anybody else feel like punching the chick at 1:24 in the face?"

Another calls for her to be "named and shamed", while one fan of the Scots singer threatens to set up a "hate club".

Friends of the teenager have accused the show's producers of unfairly singling her out in the editing of Boyle's performance in front of 3000 people.......

A friend of the teenager said: "She is extremely upset about this hate campaign. Everyone in the venue was in exactly the same boat, booing Susan and heckling her before she had even begun to sing." '