Esther Hart will announce the results of the Dutch televote during the Eurovision Song Contest final on May 24th. Esther will follow up Paul de Leeuw, who was the Dutch spokesman for 2 consecutive years.

Esther Hart represented the Netherlands at the 2003 contest in Riga, finishing 13th with the song One more night and the following year she was asked to become the spokeswoman for her country. The announcement of this year'sDutch televote resultswill precede the birth of her second baby shortly, as the due date is somewhere early June.

Esther will take over from Paul de Leeuw, a famous DutchTV personality, whowas the spokesman for the Netherlands during the past 2 years. Back in 2006, Paul de Leeuw received both criticism and enthusiasm, as he compared the hosts to 'Will and Grace', the main characters fromthe popular American sitcom.Besides that, he read out the full votes instead ofsticking to thenew rule of reading out the top 3 only. Furthermore, Paul askedSakis Rouvas for his phone number.Last yearhe createdsome controversy as well,by comparingMarija Serifovic to Kelly Osbourne.