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Susan Boyle (pictured) has pulled out of a fourth concert on the Britain's Got Talent UK tour because she "needs to rest".
The Scottish singer was "really disappointed" not to be performing on June 19 at Cardiff International Arena.
Boyle, 48, has cancelled three other performances, nine dates into the tour. Britain's Got Talent stars are due to perform 25 times during the show's run. The singer's publicist said decisions on whether Boyle performed were taken on a day-by-day basis.
Her spokeswoman said Boyle, from West Lothian was "sorry to all her fans".
"She would love to be able to perform every single evening but she is aware of what she can and can't do.
"I feel sorry for her because she doesn't want to let people down but also she needs to have a rest."
Boyle has also cancelled two performances at the Manchester MEN Arena June 14 and one in Liverpool on June 18.
She received standing ovations for her performances in Edinburgh and Glasgow but her publicist warned she would need further rest breaks.
However she insisted Boyle was not being axed from the tour.
The singer was treated for exhaustion at The Priory in London after coming runner up on the ITV1 show.
It is not known whether she will rejoin the 20-venue tour in Nottingham on June 20.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
From BBC News. Susan Boyle was released from a mental health clinic June 5.
