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  • May 14, 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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Presenting: the finalists!

Four intensive days of rehearsals have passed, and the semifinalist countries have had their chance to perfect the presentation for

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Only one star for Bosnia

Eurovision runner-up and Balkan phenomenon as writer; celebrated Bosnian star as singer. Are there really two stars for Bosnia this

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Carola: It's time to come back

At a packed press conference on her second day of rehearsal, Carola was asked why she has waited fifteen years

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Tim Noble works Dutch girls hard

Performance director Tim Noble is putting the Dutch girls from Treble through their paces in the race to prepare them

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Daz makes a school wager

Daz Sampson has stuck his neck out to make a £500 charity bet on victory for the UK at this

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Final semifinalist rehearsals today

Today sees the final individual rehearsal spots for the semifinalists before the finalist countries take over tomorrow. After today, the

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UPD Poland's fairytale performance

Poland created a fairytale atmosphere at their second rehearsal today, with costumes inspired by a masked ball, in glittering gold

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Maltese exodus to support Fabrizio

Over four hundred Maltese nationals are anticipated in Athens over the next few days, as Fabrizio and the rest of

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Monaco in much improved rehearsal

Monaco's second rehearsal was a great improvement on the first, and Séverine Ferrer turned in a much stronger, sultry performance

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Luiz confident of final top ten

At his second press conference today, Luiz Ejjli stated that things are going well for the Albanian team, and he

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Customs crisis hits Andorra

The Andorran delegation's Eurovision Song Contest efforts have been hampered by a problem with Greek customs, which has delayed the

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Bulgaria gives solid performance

Bulgaria's Mariana Popova and her dancers have given the arena a taste of the classical Greek theme in the presentation

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Antony Costa on London stage

The runner-up to Daz Sampson in Making your mind up 2006 has turned to the London stage to get over

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The rehearsals: day three!

Now all of the semifinalists have had a chance to rehearse and give an initial press conference, the rounds begin