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Voting has closed for the Eurovision Song Contest final, with the UK placing its hopes on 25-year-old pop singer Mae Muller and her track “I Wrote a Song”.
This year’s competition marks the first time the UK has hosted a final in 25 years. It was decided that Liverpool would host after 2022’s winning country Ukraine said it would be unable to, due to the ongoing invasion by Russia.
Twenty finalists, including Norway, Sweden, Finland and Australia, joined Eurovision’s Big Five (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) and Ukraine tonight. We’ve also seen a surprise cameo from Kate Middleton!
You can see all the acts who made it through to tonight’s final, along with the running order, here.
The final is being broadcast on BBC One. Graham Norton, Hannah Waddingham, Alesha Dixon and Ukrainian singer Julia Sanina are presenting, while Norton will also be providing commentary alongside The Great British Bake Off star Mel Giedroyc.
Muller might not quite reach the same heights as Sam Ryder, who finished in second place for the UK last year, but the bookies still pin her among the frontrunners. You can read the latest odds here.
Sweden’s Loreen is absolutely dominating the jury results
Four points for the UK from Sweden, with Loreen still top of the leaderbooard !
Swedish entrant Loreen (Aaron Chown/PA)
“I’m overwhelmed darling"
Loreen says she’s in a meditative state after the first wave of jury votes sent her (and Sweden) straight to the top of the leaderboard.
Eurovision 2023: Most iconic outfits of grand final performances
Hannah Waddingham scolds the booing!
You probably heard some booing after the jury scores came in, with some countries giving their douze points to Italy or Israel. Eurovision host and Game of Thrones star Hannah Waddingham was having NONE of it: “No booing please!!” she told the live audience in Liverpool.
Results from the Eurovision jury come in thick and fast
Lovely compliments from Ukraine and Italy for the joint UK-Ukraine hosting of Eurovision, accompanying the jury’s delivery of votes for each country. But the UK isn’t doing so well with the jury so far...
STOP VOTING
Voting has now closed, I repeat, voting has CLOSED! That’s it. We can but wait.
Some more images of the spectacular performances this evening
A sublime performance of The Beatles’ ‘Imagine’ starring Italy’s Mahmood opens the Liverpool all-stars show
Honestly, the level of production that goes into Eurovision is just wild. After an orchestral version of “Imagine” with Mahmood we get Israel’s Netta singing “You Spin Me Right Round”, Iceland’s Dadi Freyr doing a hyper version of “Whole Again” by Atomic Kitten, and Sweden’s Cornelia Jones doing Mel C’s “I Turn To You”. A celebration of British pop if there ever was one.
Ukraine Eurovision act’s hometown ‘under fire from Russian missiles during contest’
The British Ambassador to Ukraine, Dame Melinda Simmons, has said Ukraine was under fire from Russian missiles on Saturday as the Eurovision Song Contest took place, including the university home town of the Ukrainian act Tvorchi.
“Meanwhile, this Eurovision night Ukraine is under another Russian missile attack,” Dame Melinda tweeted.
“Reminder that the reason why (Ukraine) could not host this event is because (Russia) continues to invade and the people of (Ukraine) live in continuing danger.”
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