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  • June 8, 2025

Richard West-Soley

Richard’s ESC history began way back in 1992, when he discovered the contest could fuel his passion for music and languages. Since then, it’s been there at every corner for him in some way or another. He joined the esctoday.com team back in 2006, and quickly developed a love for writing about the contest. In his other life, he heads the development team at the learning resources company Linguascope, and writes about all aspects of language learning on the site Polyglossic.com.

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20. A vision in the vortex: Malta rehearses

Olivia Lewis showed off her dress for the semifinal for the first time at today's rehearsal, as she appeared on

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UPD 28. Bathed in sunshine: Latvia's light show

Latvia's Questa notte was last up on stage today, as the individual semifinalist rehearsals draw to a close after four

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27. Eric as alive as ever: Great camera presence

Eric Papilaya cannot be faulted as a performer; and, combined with the excellent styling the Austrian creative team have give

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26. Kenan shakes it a second time

Kenan Dogulu ran through his Turkish entry for 2007 once again today, at his second rehearsal for Shake It Up

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UPD 25. Coquettish confidence: Alenka plays to camera

Alenka Gotar proves that she can really play the part in her second rehearsal today at the Hartwall Arena. The

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UPD 24. 70s comin' back: Falling into place for Belgium

A bit of the 70s really started to come back at the Hartwall Arena this afternoon, as the KMGs pulled

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21. Ties for votes: Anonymous looking the part

Anonymous' frontman appeared today in a black and white stripy tie look straight from the charts, as they appeared on

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22. Magdi sings the blues – and yellows

Hungary's Magdi Rusza took her turn on stage this afternoon, at her final individual rehearsal in the Hartwall Arena. She

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UPD 05. Dark matter: Iceland's rehearsal

At Eirikur's second rehearsal for Iceland this afternoon, the Icelandic representative builds on the dark mood in the song on

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UPD – 3 19. Frock-rippingly fun: Norway shapes up

Norway's Guri Schanke took to the Eurovision dance floor with her male companions this afternoon, as the camera work begins

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Found: Six Happy Latvians!

The Bonaparti.lv boys, fresh from their disappearance scare, have been located and are now safely installed back at their hotel

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18. Playing with contrasts: Karolina's show takes form

Karolina Gocheva's stage performance is really coming together now, with contrasts playing a big role in the show on screen

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UPD – 2 17. Showing some leg: Sabrina rehearses

Sabrina and her troupe of Latin dancers performed in full costume this morning, Sabrina dressed for the part in a

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UPD – 2 16. No nonsense Czechs: Kabat rehearse

The Czechs completed their final individual rehearsal this morning, and once again turned in a no-nonsense, professional performance with Josef