The voting marathon involved input from 40 entrants, meaning an arduous process indeed. Each country lined up its spokesperson, and I grabbed more beers in preparation for annoyance in the extreme, and a possible disaster from Russia winning. The fifteen seconds of fame merchants were:
Montenegro – Andrea Demirović (Montenegrin representative in the 2009 Contest)
Malta – Julie Zahra (Maltese representative in the 2004 Contest along with Ludwig Galea)
Finland – Krista Siegfrids (Finnish representative in the 2013 Contest)
Greece – Helena Paparizou (Greek representative in the 2001 Contest as part ofAntique, winner of the 2005 Contest)
Portugal – Suzy (Portuguese representative in the 2014 Contest)
Romania – Sonia Argint Ionescu
Belarus – Teo (Belarusian representative in the 2014 Contest)
Albania – Andri Xhahu
Moldova – Olivia Fortuna
Azerbaijan – Tural Asadou
Latvia – Markus Riva
Serbia – Maja Nikolić
Estonia – Tanja (Estonian representative in the 2014 Contest)
Denmark – Basim (Danish representative in the 2014 Contest)
Switzerland – Laetitia Guarino
Belgium – Walid
France – Virginie Guilhaume
Armenia – Lilit Muradyan
Ireland – Nicky Byrne
Sweden – Mariette Hansson
Germany – Barbara Schöneberger
Australia – Lee Lin Chin
Czech Republic – Daniela Písařovicová
Spain – Lara Siscar
Austria – Kati Bellowitsch
Macedonia – Marko Mark
Slovenia – Tinkara Kovač (Slovene representative in the 2014 Contest)
Hungary – Csilla Tatár
United Kingdom – Nigella Lawson
Georgia – Natia Bunturi
Lithuania – Ugnė Galadauskaitė
Netherlands – Edsilia Rombley (Dutch representative in the 1998 Contest and2007 Contest)
Poland – Cleo (Polish representative in the 2014 Contest along with Donatan)
Israel – Ofer Nachshon
Russia – Dmitry Shepelev
San Marino – Valentina Monetta (Sammarinese representative in the 2012,2013 and 2014 Contest)
Italy – Federico Russo
Iceland – Sigridur Halldórsdóttir
Cyprus – Loukas Hamatsos
Norway – Margrethe Røed
I have no idea why voters in the UK cannot register their favourites via text, and have to phone. Anyway, the three irritating hosts were off, to conduct the vote gathering. First, though, we had to endure further input from Conchita.
Arabella is an annoying twat. Anyway, moving on, I dispute the 'Green Room' references, when there was no fucking room at all! Graham said it all, on behalf of viewers, confirming the awkwardness surrounding the crappy chats.
At 10.54pm, I was starting to wonder whether I'd be sober when the winner was announced, especially as not a single vote had been cast at until 10.55pm.
Considering the points awarded from 1 to 7 are already shown on screen, what's the fucking point of having a representative to tell us the top three?
Notable Voting, including bias and criminal activity
Malta gives 12 points to Italy
Finland gives 8 points to Russia, 10 to Estonia, 12 to Sweden
Greece gives 10 points to Cyprus
Belarus gives 8 points to Belgium (WTF?) and 12 to Russia
Albania gives 8 points to Russia
Moldova gives 10 points to Russia, 12 to Romania
Azerbaijan gives 12 points to Russia
Latvia gives 10 points to Russia, 12 to Sweden
"Music should stand over politic, said one of the three crappy hosts." Yes, luv, but that's simply NOT the case, and hasn't happened for many years in this competition!
Denmark gives 12 points to Sweden
France gives 12 points to Belgium
Ireland gives 12 points to Latvia (WTF?)
"It's a corrugated shed - it's blown off the roof and hit her in the neck," said Graham, regarding the German vote-giver, in the appalling dress.
"Is there a science fiction convention going on?" asked Graham, regarding the Slovenian woman.
Hungary gives 12 points to Belgium (WTF?)
Lithuania gives 8 points to Estonia, 12 to Latvia !!!! None to Russia!
"Mother Russia" (which got some boos) gives 10 points to Belgium (WTF?)
Russia also tried (jokingly) to give 12 points to Russia. Irony resurfaces, eh?
Iceland gives 12 points to Sweden
Sweden is announced as the winning entry, which thankfully stops Russia.
Norway gives 12 points to Sweden
As ever, Graham Norton was good, the songs were generally poor, and the voting was criminally shite - albeit that Russia was (eastern) blocked, thank heavens.
1 Sweden 2 Russia 3 Italy
As a parting comment, I suggest that the UK is better off not bothering - which has been the case for 15 years now. Does that suggest the in/out referendum in 2017 will lead to a UK exit from Europe? Possibly. We are clearly a spent force, and disliked. Good luck, Mr Cameron.
24th out of 27 countries says it all.
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