Cheryl Baker, former member of the pop group Bucks Fizz who won the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom with Making Your Mind Up has been discussing the UK’s chances in the 2017 competition.

She has said that the UK’s decision to withdraw from the European Union could stop other countries voting.

I think it could be detrimental.

They will think, well ‘you want to be on your own, fine, we won’t vote for you´-.

On the entries for Eurovision: You Decide, which is taking place in London on 27 January she says;

I have listened to all six songs and the singers are great. Let’s look for the positives. They are all good songs. They can sing, are all pretty and are good-looking.

You can see her Eurovision winning song from 1981 below.

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Eliza-Jane watched Eurovision Song Contest as a youngster growing up in Australia and continued to be a keen follower of the show since moving to London in 1999. She watched the show live from Oslo in 2010 and Dusseldorf in 2011, and Malmo 2013.