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For years she idolised Elaine Paige, singing along to her songs in her bedroom with a hairbrush for a microphone.

But it seems Susan Boyle's admiration for the 61-year-old diva may not be a mutual affair.

Miss Paige, who boasts 40 years in showbusiness and a £12million fortune, has haughtily dismissed the instant success of the Britain's Got Talent runner-up as 'a virus that swept the world'.

As viruses go, this one is certainly rather profitable.

SuBo, as she is rapidly becoming known, is expected to rake in £5million in a mere three months from the worldwide success of her debut album, I Dreamed A Dream.