A spokesman for the singer said today the pressures of her new-found fame may have got the better of her.

The Scottish singer is said to have began swearing angrily after Morgan told told 12-year-old Shaheen Jafargholi his had been ‘the best singing performance we have heard in the semi-finals so far’.

Watching the show the hotel’s bar, Boyle is accused of sticking two fingers up at a television and shouting ‘f*** off’, before stomping off to her room.