Piers Morgan: 'Susan Boyle is fine'

Piers Morgan has said that Susan Boyle is "mentally fine" and will play a number of dates on the ongoing Britain's Got Talent live tour.

Ahead of Boyle's performance last night in Glasgow, Morgan told BBC HARDtalk that it was the attention of the media and not the reality talent show that had resulted in the singer's admission to The Priory.

Morgan said: "She did three great shows and is now having a rest and she'll be back for a few more shows. Susan's fine.

"Susan Boyle's fine. She has always been, in my view, mentally fine. The problems she found difficult as anybody would was this incredible worldwide attention."

He added: "What I find even more hypocritical is that the broadcast media, and broadsheet media as well, they want to cover this story and the best way of covering it and to get the acres of publicity that you want for ratings is to somehow try and turn it into something more sinister than it was."