Lorraine Kelly stopped her ITV daytime TV show to deliver some breaking news about this year’s Eurovision Song Contest
Lorraine Kelly abruptly halts ITV show with ‘breaking news’ announcement(Image: ITV)
The ITV show Lorraine was abruptly interrupted by its host, as Lorraine Kelly delivered a “breaking news” announcement. She interrupted her conversation abut spring dresses with Mark Heyes as she received breaking news through her ear piece.
While they spoke, the host’s hand flew to her ear. “Mark, they’ve just said ‘breaking news’,” she said. She spoke quickly to the person talking to her to say that she had stopped the show and then revealed the news to the audience.
“Boy George is not Italy,” Lorraine said. Earlier in the day, it had been revealed that Boy George was make a surprise bid with an Italian singer to compete for a European nation in the Eurovision Song Contest, but the country he was hoping to compete for was not known, until Lorraine’s announcement. “It’s not us either, it’s San Marino.”
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San Marino is a small nation in Europe that is landlocked by Italy. It is situated on Mount Titano and is one of the world’s oldest republics. As of 2024, it’s population was said to be only around 34,000. The nation has competed in Eurovision 15 times, debuting in 2008 and making its first appearance in the final in 2014. The nation has never won.
After revealing the news, Lorraine seemed nonplussed by it. Shrugging, she said to the camera: “He’ll win.” Mark then added that he was “glad” that Boy George would not be performing for the UK, as “we never win”. Lorraine added: “Yeah its a bit embarrassing.”
The UK is always in the final of the contest, as we are one of a few nations whose financial contribution guarantees them a place. However, the last time we won was over 20 years ago, in 1997 with Katrina and the Waves’ Love Shine A Light.
Ordinarily, the UK finish near the bottom of the leaderboard but in 2022, Sam Ryder’s Space Man got the UK to second place, finishing behind Ukraine. Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the nation was unable to host the following year’s contest. As such, the UK was able to host for the first time since 1998.
This year, Youtuber Look Mum No Computer will compete for the UK at the contest in Vienna. This is the third time the city will host Eurovision and comes after Austria’s JJ won the competition last year.
There are several countries that will not compete this year. Five have decided to boycott the competition over the continued allowance of Israel to take part. These countries are Iceland, Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands, all of whom have said that they do not think it is appropriate to take part if Israel are.
Israel’s participation in Eurovision has been a source of tension due to the war in Gaza. The war has resulted in the deaths of at least 50,000 children and is widely considered a genocide of the Palestinian people, including by the International Association of Genocide Scholars.
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