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I’ve been shattered all week since wrecking my body clock with this, but it was worth it!

It was so fun to have the UK host it on behalf of Ukraine, funny to see Graham Norton up the front, when those are normally the people he’s busy taking the mick out of from his commentary box!

The interval gave us The Liverpool Songbook – Liverpudlian hit songs sung by former Eurovision stars. It included a fantastic cover of Whole Again by Atomic Kitten, from Dadi Freyr (which he has since released as a single!), and a beautiful rendition of You’ll Never Walk Alone, bringing all acts together at the end, enjoy:

Here are my five favourite acts from this year’s final – cannot believe Austria didn’t do better!

What a night! Never thought I’d see the day we were back on the left hand side of the board, let alone second place, and to a most worthy winner!

Here are my top five for this year:

And my full scorecard for this year!

There seemed to be a fair amount of serious songs this year, including ours and the winners, which was a shame, but these were my top five.

1. Australia

2. Denmark

3. Czech Republic

4. France

5. Spain

Also a honourary mention for the weirdest song this year for Iceland…..

Also need to share with you one of this year’s interval acts (not Madonna!). They got four of the most Eurovisiony acts from the last few years of competition and had them sing each other’s songs – outstanding.