And now Susan Boyle has added a tube of the red stuff to her growing arsenal of beauty products.

Stepping out of her pebble-dashed home today the dowdy spinster from Britain's Got Talent appeared to have been replaced by a respectable school-teacher type.

Her newly-purchased plum-red lipstick added a final touch to the home-spun makeover which Susan has been quietly working on since her meteoric rise to international fame.