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Richie Anderson is taking the reins for Radio 2's semi finals commentary

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Eurovision 2024 across the BBC
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[rick]

Whoops - getting my 00s artists starting with J confused. I meant Javine!

This instantly reminded me of this rude exchange on an old episode of Buzzcocks regarding Jamelia and Javine.

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Semi final interval acts have been announced

First Semi-Final - Benjamin Ingrosso (Sweden, 2018)
Second Semi-Final - Helena Paparizou (Greece, 2005), Sertab Erener (Turkey, 2003) and Charlotte Perrelli (Sweden, 1999) will be part of "the world's biggest sing along"

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Semi-Final interval acts announced: A Eurovision all-stars lineup!
A host of Eurovision stars are to return as SVT reveals two of the interval acts…
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[gottago]

So curious about Sertab’s involvement. It’s 20 years since Turkey hosted rather than her winning so doesn’t feel like an anniversary reason. Helena is Swedish so makes sense that she’s involved. I wonder if they might have a surprise Turkey return announcement lined up like they did with Luxembourg last year.

[Tim G]

So curious about Sertab’s involvement. It’s 20 years since Turkey hosted rather than her winning so doesn’t feel like an anniversary reason. Helena is Swedish so makes sense that she’s involved. I wonder if they might have a surprise Turkey return announcement lined up like they did with Luxembourg last year.

Given the ESC logo appearing within a Türkiye-shaped block on a video with Petra the other week, wouldn't surprise me one bit...

[Jon]

So curious about Sertab’s involvement. It’s 20 years since Turkey hosted rather than her winning so doesn’t feel like an anniversary reason. Helena is Swedish so makes sense that she’s involved. I wonder if they might have a surprise Turkey return announcement lined up like they did with Luxembourg last year.

To be fair, every year is an anniversary of anyone winning. And every year is the 20th anniversary of someone winning. So it would be rather arbitrary to celebrating Turkey winning or indeed hosting 20 years ago.

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Lynda Woodruff klaxon!

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We’ve got a Petra musical number, now Lynda is back too. It’s SVT’s greatest hits

[DeMarkay]

The UK staging looks INCREDIBLE!!!

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[all new phil]

The UK staging looks INCREDIBLE!!!

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Sounds like they’ve beefed up the middle eight from what I’ve read too. Got good feelings this year.

Co-op Arena 2025…? 😆

(In all seriousness though…) there’s a real lack of a strong favourite this year. Last year was always going to be Sweden, the year before Ukraine was never in doubt. I don’t think it’s clear cut at all this time round. Genuinely can’t wait for that final two split screen.

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Johnny Logan is also now reportedly confirmed as an interval act for Semi 1

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