Bambie ate 'bad shellfish' and had to go to hospital on Friday
Eurovision hopeful Bambie Thug rehearsed for the final time in Sweden on Monday ahead of the first semi-final of the song contest.The Macroom singer will be hoping to qualify for Ireland for the final for the first time since 2018.Bambie was fighting fit at their dress rehearsal on Monday afternoon after being hospitalised on Friday with food poisoning after eating “bad shellfish”.
The Irish Boycott Eurovision 2024 Coalition said Ireland should not take part and called for Israel, “a genocidal apartheid state”, to be removed from the competition. They added that they feel that the competition’s entrants are “easy targets as artists”, and said that critics “should be contacting” the European Broadcasting Union and RTÉ instead.
Asked if they were feeling under pressure from the protests, the singer said they are “standing for a lot of things”, including “as a queer person”, and that their contest entry was being done with “a lot of voices” in mind.
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