SUSAN Boyle has splashed out £110,000 to buy the house next door to hers.
The singing sensation paid about £40,000 over the market value to secure the house adjoining her own ex-council home.
Earlier this year it was revealed that she was renting the house in Blackburn, West Lothian, from landlords Romano and Claudia Pacitti while she agreed a price. Property records show the 52-year-old paid £110,000 to buy the house from them.
She is now set to press ahead with plans to knock through the walls and convert the two properties into a six-bedroomed home.
Similar homes in the same street have been sold for about £70,000 in recent years.
The sale came after neighbours Paul Keaveney and Teresa Miller, who previously rented the house, were asked to leave by the landlords.
The singer fell out with them after they accused her in 2012 of keeping them awake by belting out her hits. She insisted they were the troublemakers.
Ms Miller, 40, said: “We were told we had two months to get out. The landlord said he wanted to sell the property.”
Boyle bought a five bedroom £260,000 new-build detached villa at the other end of the village in 2011 with her first earnings.
But she did not settle and moved back to the modest home where she had lived with her family since she was a child.
The star has sold 14 million records and is worth about £11 million.
Source: Herald Scotland