Susan Boyle 'terrified of being dropped'

Susan Boyle has reportedly told friends that she is terrified of being dropped by her record company Syco.

The singer was picked up by Simon Cowell's label after finishing in second place on last year's Britain's Got Talent. She later topped the charts with her debut album I Dreamed A Dream.

Of the prospect of ever being dropped, a friend of the singer told The Observer: "She's terrified of it. She's always saying, 'What if they drop me? What if they decide to drop me?'.

And I say, 'They're not going to do that, you're earning them so much money'. But she thinks that as quickly as it came, it all might go again."

Boyle's sister Mary said of the star's success: "In lots of ways, it's brilliant, it's made her life better. She's proved herself. But we do worry that someone will come along and try to take advantage of her."