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Eurovision
Latest news and updates on the Eurovision Song Contest as the UK prepares to host for the first time since 1998.
Latest Eurovision news
- EntertainmentPA Media: Entertainment
Pro-Palestine activists protest outside BBC in call for Eurovision boycott
It comes a month after solidarity group Queers For Palestine called for Olly Alexander to stop participating in the competition.
- EntertainmentAssociated Press
Ukrainian duo heads to the Eurovision Song Contest with a message: We're still here
Even amid war, Ukraine finds time for the glittery, pop-filled Eurovision Song Contest. Ukraine’s entrants in the pan-continental music competition — the female duo of rapper alyona alyona and singer Jerry Heil — set off from Kyiv for the competition on Thursday. “We need to be visible for the world,” Heil told The Associated Press at Kyiv train station before her departure.
- EntertainmentPA Media: Entertainment
Designer who worked on Beyonce tour unveils Eurovision stage for Malmo
Olly Alexander is representing the UK.
- EntertainmentPA Media: Entertainment
Olly Alexander to make EastEnders surprise guest appearance ahead of Eurovision
The Years & Years singer will make a stop at The Queen Vic pub in scenes due to air in early May.
- NewsAssociated Press
From pop to politics, what to know as Sweden prepares for the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest
Taking place in May in Malmö, Sweden, the 68th annual competition will see acts from 37 countries vie for the continent’s pop crown in a feelgood extravaganza that strives — not always successfully – to banish international strife and division. Here’s a guide to all things Eurovision. WHAT IS EUROVISION? On one level, it’s simple: Eurovision is an international pop music competition in which acts from countries across Europe, and a few beyond it, compete in a live televised contest to be crow
- NewsAssociated Press
Protests, heightened terror threat mean tight security at Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden
Security will be tight during next month’s Eurovision Song Contest in the southern Sweden city of Malmo, police said Wednesday, citing demonstrations that could lead to unrests and a heightened threat of terrorism in the Scandinavian country. “The security is going to be rigorous,” Petra Stenkula, head of police area in Malmo, said according to Swedish broadcaster TV4. Pro-Palestinian activists who want Israel out of the Eurovision Song Contest have announced large rallies in downtown Malmo, s
- NewsEvening Standard
Antisemitism campaign group say Rio Cinema's Eurovision snub 'betrays their Jewish heritage'
The east London cinema is refusing to screen the Eurovision final because Israel is taking part
- EntertainmentThe Guardian
When a Eurovision song started a coup
Letters: Chris Keil on the significance of the Portuguese entry for the 1974 competition. Plus John Lovelock on Abba’s appeal
- EntertainmentEvening Standard
When is Eurovision 2024? Organisers hit out at harassment of contestants
There is growing tension over Israel's participation in this year’s competition
- EntertainmentThe Telegraph
Will the UK flame out? Is Israel still playing? All your Eurovision 2024 questions, answered
The 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, the biggest and longest-running music competition in the world, will take place in Malmö, Sweden, this May – and it promises to be as brilliantly bonkers, and as politically fraught, as ever. Us Brits will watch with caution after a bruising result for UK entry Mae Muller last year.