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Russia has suffered a shock elimination from Eurovision in Thursday's second semi-final.
It will be the first time the country has not qualified since 1998, going back to before the semi-final stage of the competition was introduced.
Eurovision was mentioned in a thread a few weeks ago and as I'm always on the look out for new thread ideas, I realised we don't have a Eurovision thread here. Now corrected
I admit it, I used to love Eurovision and Wogan's dry wit commentary was the icing on the cake. Whether it was all the politics of the show through each country voting for their mates, like Greece and Cyprus, or the outlandish costumes, this was very much compulsive viewing for me. But things change and with Brexit adding a new dimension too, the UK's love-hate relationship with this contest is fading, or is it? If we won, could our love affair with this contest be rekindled?
Our entry for this year's contest is called SuRie, no I've not heard of her either. Does the UK have a chance of winning? Here's her song called Storm:
She definitely has a Annie Lennox look and vibe to her, don't you think? The song is very Europop-ish, but doesn't really stand out to me.
Will you be watching, it's on the Beeb Saturday night?