Susan Boyle loses talent show

• she lost out to a group of young street dancers in the final of the British talent show
• 48-year-old graciously accepted second place
• she enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame over the past two months after video footage of her audition piece for the show, "I Dreamed A Dream" from the musical "Les Miserables", was posted on video-sharing website YouTube.
• It has had about 100 million hits
• brought her celebrity fans including actress Demi Moore and rock star Jon Bon Jovi and seen her feted in the media from the United States to China, Japan and Australia
• Judge Piers Morgan said it was the "greatest performance I've seen on the history of Britain's Got Talent -- you should win the competition, I loved it."
• Boyle lost out to a group of ten young dancers, named Diversity
• "I want to thank people for all the support they've given me," she said.
• Boyle put in a shaky performance of "Memory" in the show's semi-finals last weekend, singing occasionally out of tune and out of time, and some fans on YouTube had questioned whether she could handle the weight of expectations.
• The British media had also reported some erratic behaviour over the past week, including how she had lost her temper in the foyer of the London hotel
• Morgan said that she even considered quitting, describing her in his blog as a "frightened rabbit in headlights".
• Boyle said: "I hope to get an album out -- I'll just play it by ear."
  She added: "What a journey -- unbelievable, and very humbling. Thank you for everything."