Breaking news :

The UK are starting the Eurovision super League.

The winner was snorting coke on telly!!!
He denies it. Going to get a test to prove his innocence.
Coke detection is 2 days so too late.
You can’t make it up

He's not the only one.

Two words sum up why we as a country have failed consistently, cowell and simon.

I read this

The Eurovision Song Contest is owned and organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The EBU includes national broadcasters from across Europe and beyond. That’s why Israel and Australia participate, because they are in the EBU.

As with the other national broadcasters, the BBC pays to the EBU a participation fee. Along with four countries - France, Italy, Spain and Germany - the size of the BBC’s participation fee allows the UK to automatically take part in the Saturday night grand final. Most countries must qualify from the semi finals held on the Tuesday and Thursday beforehand.

The BBC’s participation fee is over £300,000. And this secures broadcasting of the two semis and the grand final. That’s nearly eight hours of live television. Cheaper than commissioning and broadcasting new home produced television for a Saturday night.

If the UK were to win, then the BBC would have the option to host the following year. The cost of hosting falls mainly to the host broadcaster. The Swedish Television spent £16 million on hosting the 2016 Stockholm contest. While Russian television spent over £25 million on hosting the 2009 contest in Moscow.

The BBC would be unlikely to want to spend over £15 million of licence payers’ money on an event with European sentiment. So it’s better for the BBC to make less effort and avoid the costs of winning. And it shows in the UK’s recent entries.

If you look carefully both hands were a fair distance away from his face. Looked more like a kind of celebration caught at the wrong time by the camera. He's thankfully been cleared of drug use [Link]