Promoters are charging more than £8000 per minute for live performances from Britain�s Got Talent runner-up Susan Boyle.

Promoters are charging more than £8000 per minute for live performances from Britain's Got Talent runner-up Susan Boyle.

The Scottish singer is being booked by corporate clients for £100,000 per 12-minute set, amounting to £140 a second - more than what she currently lives on each week.

The live appearances follow Ms Boyle's return on the Britain's Got Talent tour on Friday night after a spell in London's Priory clinic due to stress brought on by her sudden global fame.

A source close to the singer told a Sunday newspaper: "She's the biggest star to have come out of Britain's Got Talent, so her price tag to sing reflects that.

"These fees mean it will take 10 dates for her to make a million pounds, which is unprecedented for a reality show winner."

The unlikely star continues to rent the council house where she has lived alone with her cat, Pebbles, since the death of her mother two years ago and has told her family she wants to use her earnings to buy it and give the rest of the money to her relatives.

But the 48-year-old, from Blackburn, West Lothian, has yet to earn a penny from the show, with executives only covering her expenses and no contracts or live dates being booked while the contest was still under way.

A Britain's Got Talent insider was reported as saying that the same procedures had to be followed for every contestant to avoid influencing the public vote, but now that the show had finished this was set to change very quickly.

"Now we can start making her some serious money. We have to do it soon to capitalise on the huge interest in her, especially in America."