{"id":586498,"date":"2026-05-16T01:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T01:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/586498\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T01:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T01:35:09","slug":"eurovision-final-sex-violins-and-seven-other-things-to-look-out-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/586498\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision final: Sex, violins and seven other things to look out for"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia has been obsessed with Eurovision since Abba won in 1974. As a gesture of goodwill, they were invited to take part in the contest’s 60th anniversary in 2015, as a one-off wildcard entry.<\/p>\n

They embraced the show with such enthusiasm they’ve been invited back every year since \u2013 but after crashing out in last year’s semi-final, they’re determined to win in 2026.<\/p>\n

Taking no chances, they’ve sent actual platinum-selling pop star Delta Goodrem, with a power ballad so polished you can see the whites of her eyes in it.<\/p>\n

It’s called Eclipse. It has a chorus that would make Celine Dion jealous, and features a baroque piano breakdown before an almighty key change in the final refrain.<\/p>\n

After Thursday’s semi-final, bookmakers slashed Delta’s odds, making her a frontrunner for the trophy.<\/p>\n

No-one’s quite sure what happens if she wins<\/a> \u2013 but Graham Norton has some gossip.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the Wanging On podcast earlier this week, the BBC’s Eurovision host said he’d been discussing this very topic with Australian broadcaster, Joel Creasey.<\/p>\n

“He was saying that every year Australia make a deal with someone, in case they win, so that someone will host [the contest] for them.”<\/p>\n

We put the question to Eurovision organisers the EBU, who were non-committal. <\/p>\n

“We’re currently focussed on the Grand Final of the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, with 25 incredible songs and artists from across Europe and Australia competing,” they said.<\/p>\n

“Discussions on the hosting of next year’s event will take place, as always, after we have our winner on 16 May.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia has been obsessed with Eurovision since Abba won in 1974. As a gesture of goodwill, they were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-586498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}