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Ncuti Gatwa withdraws as UK's Eurovision jury announcer

2025-05-16 18:00:20
The Doctor Who star was due to read out the UK jury votes at Saturday's grand final
Singer and Radio 2 presenter Sophie Ellis-Bextor says it is "a privilege" to be part of the Eurovision grand final

The countries that qualified on Thursday for Saturday's final include Israel, Luxembourg, Finland, Latvia, Malta, Lithuania, Armenia, Austria, Denmark and Greece.

They join the UK, France, Germany and Switzerland alongside the countries that qualified at Tuesday's semi final - Spain, Italy, Norway, Albania, Sweden, Iceland, Netherlands, Poland, San Marino, Estonia, Portugal, and Ukraine.

Ireland, which is currrently the joint-record holder with Sweden for the most Eurovision wins, after taking the tropy seven times, failed to qualify on Thursday evening.

Norwegian singer Emmy, who represented the country, did not get enough votes with Laika Party, about a Russian space dog.

She hoped to replicate the success of last year's entrant, Bambie Thug, who became the first Irish competitor to reach the grand final since Ryan O'Shaughnessy in 2018.