Azerbaijan’s Eurovision Warmup – The Graham Norton Show – BBC Two

Delighted for Ireland – same as last year. The UK got a bum draw, Italy is about similar to last year though. Might be harder for Serbia to get through to the final now – but not impossible.

Draw of Semi-Final 1

In each half of every respective Semi-Final, one country received a wildcard to choose its starting position. The remaining positions were drawn afterwards.

The draw for the first Semi-Final:

1. Montenegro
2. Iceland
3. Greece
4. Latvia
5. Albania
6. Romania
7. Switzerland
8. Belgium
9. Finland (wildcard)
10. Israel
11. San Marino
12. Cyprus
13. Denmark
14. Russia
15. Hungary
16. Austria
17. Moldova
18. Ireland (wildcard)

Draw of Semi-Final 2

The draw for the second Semi-Final brought the following result:

1. Serbia
2. FYR Macedonia
3. The Netherlands
4. Malta
5. Belarus
6. Portugal
7. Ukraine (wildcard)
8. Bulgaria
9. Slovenia
10. Croatia
11. Sweden
12. Georgia
13. Turkey
14. Estonia
15. Slovakia
16. Norway
17. Bosnia & Herzegovina
18. Lithuania (wildcard)

Preliminary draw for the Final

For the Grand Final, the starting positions of the Big 5 countries (Italy, France, Germany, Spain, and The United Kingdom) plus the host, Azerbaijan, were also drawn, with one of them, again, getting a wildcard to freely choose their starting position:

• 01. United Kingdom
• 09. France
• 10. Italy
• 13. Azerbaijan
• 19. Spain (wildcard)
• 20. Germany

Jedward ran the LA marathon today, wel done to them We all know that they have a lot of energy lol

We are loving the Russian grannies they are like those little Russian dolls that pop out of each other

By far the favourite with the audience and public, plus with the added extra of this headline “Dima Bilan beaten by dancing grannies”

Buranovskie Babushki will sing the song Party for everybody in the first semifinal

You may know him from this song back in the late 60′s

According to the Telegraph Showbiz Editor “Can’t reveal until tonight. But if I tell you it’s a Grammy-nominated, platinum-selling artist… you still won’t guess it.” – Rick Astley anyone? Tom Jones, or some random down on their luck artist trying to make a comeback?