‘I still live in the same house I grew up in!'

This week’s columnist: Global classical singer Susan Boyle

If you had told me 10 years ago that I would have released eight albums, travelled the world and was about to embark on my fourth tour, I would have thought you were having a carry-on.

Most people will remember me for walking onto that Britain’s Got Talent stage, with wild hair, looking like I’d got dressed in the dark, and everyone expecting a joke audition. Then I sang, and in that moment I symbolised the old adage ‘never judge a book by its cover’.