Susan Sykes (born May 9, 1961) is a television personality and actress who has appeared in films such as ''
The Dictator'' (alongside
Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Noam Baron Cohen (born 13 October 1971) is an English actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his creation and portrayal of the fictional satirical characters Ali G, Borat Sagdiyev, Brüno Gehard, and Admiral ...
and
Sir Ben Kingsley
Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; 31 December 1943) is an English actor. He has received various accolades throughout his career spanning five decades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Grammy Award, and two ...
) and ''Deported'', as well as several television shows, who performs under the
stage name Busty Heart.
Early life and education
Sykes is the daughter of an IBM executive and a school teacher. Sykes worked as an assistant at an investment firm and paralegal for a large law firm before her career in the entertainment business. Sykes graduated from the
Dana Hall School in
Wellesley, Massachusetts
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. She graduated from
Pine Manor College
Pine Manor College (PMC) was a private college in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1911 and was historically a women's college until 2014. It currently serves fewer than 400 students, many of whom live on the 40-acre campus. Origin ...
in
Brookline, Massachusetts in 1979.
Career
Sykes earned the nickname "Busty Heart" in high school, by which point her
oversized breasts had already developed. Her first claim to fame was as a spectator at a
Boston Celtics game in 1986. She had been given free tickets to a Celtics game, which happened to be seated next to NBA prospect
John Salley
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. As
CBS
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's cameras spotted Salley in the crowd, Sykes shook her breasts at the camera, breaking
Brent Musburger's attention and prompting him to break into laughter. Sykes, who had previously been self-conscious about her large breasts and had otherwise avoided public appearances because of them, soon “parlayed
15 seconds of fame into a 30-year-career” and became a regular at Celtics games. The Celtics won the
1986 NBA Finals
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and appeared in (but lost) the
1987 NBA Finals
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while Busty Heart was in the stands. She mostly ceased appearing at sporting events in 1990, when the
St. Louis Cardinals
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management accused her of public lewdness after attending a Cardinals game.
[
She appeared on the season finale of ''America's Got Talent'' (NBC) on October 1, 2008. She also appeared on ''Rude Tube'' on ]Channel 4
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in the United Kingdom
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in November 2008. Among her most famous television appearances, she was on Comedy Central
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's ''The Man Show
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'', where she demonstrated her talent for crushing beer cans by slamming her breasts on top of them.
Busty Heart has done numerous TV shows, including Fox-TV's ''That's Just Wrong'', The WB
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's Steve Harvey
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-hosted '' Steve Harvey's Big Time Challenge'' season finale, Endemol TV's ''Private Parts'' on Channel 5 in England, truTV's ''World's Dumbest'', Bravo TV's ''Outrageous and Contagious Viral Videos'', Fuji TV Tokyo Japan "2006 Bakademy Awards", E!'s ''Talk Soup'', and 2007 Spike TV MANswers
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The series is produced by reality ...
.
E! named a Busty Heart clip the #14 best video clip of 2005. On July 1, 2008, she demonstrated her "talents" on the third season of '' America's Got Talent'', and received unanimous "No" votes.
However, during 2010's German talent show ''Das Supertalent'', she received all "yes" votes from the judges and even reached the semi-final round,(Top 40 out of 41.000 auditioners)Got Talent
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in other countries, such as Croatia
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, Czech Republic
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, Georgia
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and France
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Busty Heart appeared in the film '' The Dictator''; she plays the role of Etra, one of the titular dictator's bodyguards who uses her breasts as weapons. She appeared in the 2017 movie ''Deported'' as Paul's wife. She has also appeared in the E! television series '' Botched''.
Since 1996, she has operated Busty Heart's Place, a strip club located in Turtlepoint, Pennsylvania.
References
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1961 births
American female adult models
America's Got Talent contestants
Sports spectators
Living people
Pine Manor College alumni
People from Boston
People from McKean County, Pennsylvania
Dana Hall School alumni
21st-century American women