Favourites Sweden have won the Eurovision to equal Ireland's all-time record of seven song contest wins.
SWEDEN HAVE BEEN named winners of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest following tonight’s grand final in Liverpool.
Norton and Waddingham were on hosting duties tonight alongside Alesha Dixon and Ukrainian singer Julia Sanina. Ryder – picked by the BBC as last year’s entrant after building up a massive following on TikTok during the pandemic – returned to the stage to lead the first interval act, accompanied by Queen’s Roger Taylor on the drums.
The jury votes were assigned first via a familiar video-call tour of European capitals featuring the customary lineup of enthusiastic local hosts – a few of whom, in keeping with tradition, went on for far too long and verged on testing Norton’s patience. As the nation’s public broadcaster RTÉ is tasked with choosing and managing the Eurovision act each year. Speaking on Wednesday, the broadcaster’s head of delegation for the contest, Michael Kealy, said “chronic underfunding” was to blame.
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