SUSAN Boyle hasn’t forgotten her roots!

The Scottish singing sensation — whose debut album is about to top the charts — hopped on a bus Friday to buy herself a new outfit for her performance on The X Factor.

The star — who will perform her new single, Wild Horses, on the UK TV show tomorrow — wa wearing a raincoat and black trousers and was sporting her signature Burberry scarfleft when she left her home in Blackburn, West Lothian, for the shopping trip.

Susan walked past the local primary school before stopping to talk to a friend outside a newsagents.

After popping into the shopping center, she jumped on the 557 bus to Bathgate town centre and pounded the High Street, according to Scottish newspaper the Daily Record.

Boyle — whose lack of love life is almost as famous as her singing — recently revealed that she’s too busy for a boyfriend — and she turned down the chance to find her perfect man on a reality TV show!

“There’s no time for a boyfriend now, I’m far too busy,” Susan, whose debut album hits shelves later this month, told the UK’s OK! magazine.

“There was a TV company that wanted to set me up with a man. Apparently he was a nice man, but I’ve got my living to do now. I don’t mind being friendly, but no marriage plans as yet.”

SUSAN Boyle lost weight during her instant rise to fame — because she couldn’t bring herself to eat.

The Scottish singing sensation — who became a worldwide sensation after appearing on Simon Cowell’s UK TV show Britain’s Got Talent — admits the pressures of superstardom affected her appetite, leaving her on the verge of an emotional breakdown.

“I hadn’t eaten properly for about a week, hadn’t slept properly,” she says. “It was like looking at everything through a glass, and the feeling was one of extreme exhaustion that manifested itself in firing off at everyone.”

Boyle — whose lack of love life is almost as famous as her singing — recently revealed that she’s too busy for a boyfriend — and she turned down the chance to find her perfect man on a reality TV show!

“There’s no time for a boyfriend now, I’m far too busy,” Susan, whose debut album hits shelves later this month, told the UK’s OK! magazine.

“There was a TV company that wanted to set me up with a man. Apparently he was a nice man, but I’ve got my living to do now. I don’t mind being friendly, but no marriage plans as yet.”

SUSAN Boyle says she’s too busy for a boyfriend.

The Scottish singing superstar has revealed how she turned down the chance to to appear on a reality TV show that would’ve helped her find her perfect partner because she’d rather focus on her singing career than dating.

“There’s no time for a boyfriend now, I’m far too busy,” Boyle told the UK’s OK! magazine.

“There was a TV company that wanted to set me up with a man. Apparently he was a nice man, but I’ve got my living to do now. I don’t mind being friendly, but no marriage plans as yet.”

Boyle, 48, recently revealed that she was bullied at school.

“You’re looking at someone who would get the belt every day. ‘Will you Shut up, Susan!’ — whack!” the star told Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper.

“I was often left behind at school because of one thing or another. I was a slow learner. I’m just a wee bit slower at picking things up than other people. So you get left behind in a system that just wants to rush on, you know? That was what I felt was happening to me.

“There was discipline for the sake of discipline back then. But it’s all very different now. I think teachers are taught to understand children with learning disabilities a lot better.

“There’s nothing worse than another person having power over you by bullying you and you not knowing how to get rid of that thing.”

SUSAN Boyle has revealed how she was bullied at school.

The Scottish singer — who shot to fame on Simon Cowell’s UK TV show Britain’s Got Talent — says she was was hit with a belt every day by teachers who were ignorant about children with learning disabilities and taunted by classmates.

“You’re looking at someone who would get the belt every day. ‘Will you Shut up, Susan!’ — whack!” Boyle told Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper.

“I was often left behind at school because of one thing or another. I was a slow learner. I’m just a wee bit slower at picking things up than other people. So you get left behind in a system that just wants to rush on, you know? That was what I felt was happening to me.

“There was discipline for the sake of discipline back then. But it’s all very different now. I think teachers are taught to understand children with learning disabilities a lot better.

“There’s nothing worse than another person having power over you by bullying you and you not knowing how to get rid of that thing.”

Boyle — who releases her debut album later this month — recently revealed that she feels like Cinderella since becoming famous.

“I suppose it’s a bit of a Cinderella story, isn’t it?” Boyle, 48, told Weekend magazine of her instant rise to stardom.

“I like everybody to do well. Even somebody that looks like a slapped a**e. God bless her. It’s like, ‘You go girl’. She does look like a hairy a**ehole,” were Sharon Osbourne’s recent comments on Britain’s Got Talent superstar Susan Boyle.

And now she’s apologized.

“Susan Boyle is a lovely gracious woman and I took advantage of that by poking fun at her,” Osbourne wrote on her Twitter page earlier this week. “I would never want to be responsible for hurting Susan and I must apologize for getting a cheap laugh at her expense.”

Boyle, 47, is set to release her first album, I Dreamed A Dream, Nov. 24.

SUSAN Boyle had the time of her life while visiting Hollywood for her performance on Dancing With The Stars.

The singing sensation — who performed I Dreamed a Dream on the US TV show — says she enjoyed meeting Donny Osmond, her hero.

“It is quite something to be in Hollywood,” Boyle said. “Nothing a woman like me was used to. I have found Americans to be incredibly warm and friendly and very open.

“This is a world I’ve never seen before and never dreamed that I would get to see.

“I have been recording footage for my TV special, which airs in December. I have also visited Universal Studios.”

And the best part of her whirlwind tour of Tinseltown? “I’ve met my hero, Donny Osmond,” Susan said.

“Everyone is so wonderful to me,” she added. “I can ‘t wait to come back and visit again.”

SUSAN Boyle feels like Cinderella.

The Scottish singer says her life has been like a fairytale since she shot to fame on Britain’s Got Talent earlier this year.

“I suppose it’s a bit of a Cinderella story, isn’t it?” Boyle, 48, told Weekend magazine of her instant rise to stardom.

Susan also revealed how she was forced to change her telephone number after her performance of I Dreamed a Dreamed aired on TV in the UK.

“There were phone calls 24 hours a day,” she said. “They kept me awake for three weeks, until I changed my number. It was constant.

“There were a lot of press people outside my door, a lot of television people, a lot of people who wanted a piece of me.

“It got to the stage where I couldn’t even go outside because the media — American television crews, too — surrounded the house.

“It was like being inside a giant pressure cooker, where the lid bubbles up and bubbles up and soon the pressure cooker goes.

“Everything had built up, and I was exhausted. You have to understand, my life ceased to be normal.”

Boyle’s debut album hits store shelves later this month.

SUSAN Boyle has revealed how she was forced to change her telephone number after shooting to fame on Britain’s Got Talent.

The singing sensation, 48, says she was bombarded with calls 24 hours a day for three-weeks solid.

“There were phone calls 24 hours a day,” Boyle said. “They kept me awake for three weeks, until I changed my number. It was constant.

“There were a lot of press people outside my door, a lot of television people, a lot of people who wanted a piece of me.

“It got to the stage where I couldn’t even go outside because the media — American television crews, too — surrounded the house.

“It was like being inside a giant pressure cooker, where the lid bubbles up and bubbles up and soon the pressure cooker goes.

“Everything had built up, and I was exhausted. You have to understand, my life ceased to be normal.”

SUPERSTAR singleton Susan Boyle has revealed how she once had a boyfriend who proposed to her — then changed his mind.

The Britain’s Got Talent sensation — who’s due to release her debut album, I Dreamed A Dream, on November 24 — says she was left heartbroken when he beau reneged on his promise to marry her.

“I had a boyfriend, John,” Susan said. “He asked me to marry him after seven weeks.

“We went to visit his mum and she started telling me what our kitchen was going to be like when we got married! Even what fridge we could have, although we’d only ever had a peck on the cheek!

“He got cold feet. It made me sad, in a way. It makes you feel unattractive. You feel that life is passing you by. But I thought, ‘Maybe there’s something for me later’. I was always optimistic.”

Boyle, 48, also revealed how she was shocked by what she looked like when she first saw herself on TV.

“I saw this wee [little] wifey with the mad hairdo and the bushy eyebrows and said, ‘Hmmm, not really telegenic’. So I decided to spruce myself up a bit,” she said.

“When I look in the mirror now, I see this sophisticated lady. I’m still a bit like that wee wifey inside, but more refined.

“I think any woman would have done the same. Would you want to look like the Hairy Angel? I don’t think so.”

SUSAN Boyle is going to be one seriously busy lady!

The Scottish singing sensation — who’s due to release her debut album, I Dreamed A Dream, on November 24 — will reportedly make her UK comeback on the X Factor later this month.

Lady GaGa, Rihanna, Shakira and Boyzone are in talks to perform on the TV talent show for the first time since bandmate Stephen Gately’s death.

“We’re going all out to annihilate Strictly Come Dancing this year. These big signings will really help us,” a source told the News of The World newspaper.

Susan will sing her debut single Wild Horses, a cover of the Rolling Stones’ hit, on Sunday November 22.

“Simon Cowell is very excited about Susan coming back but wants to make sure she excels,” the source added.

“It’s going to be nerve-racking for her being at the very same place where she lost Britain’s Got Talent.

“The pressure can get to her and he’s decided not to sign another big-name act for that night so everything is focused around her.”

Boyle, 48, has also been lined up to appear on US TV show Dancing With The Stars.

She’ll fly to Los Angeles for an appearance on the hit show early next week, her rep said.