United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007

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The United Kingdom selected Scooch as their entry for Eurovision.

The fourth edition of the Eurovision: Making Your Mind Up selection took place on 17 March, the main show was shown on BBC One at 19.30 GMT and the results were shown at 21.30 GMT. The six acts were whittled down to two, who participated in a final sing-off to decide on the winner.

The selection was won by Scooch with "Flying the Flag (for You)".

The six acts chosen for selection by the public were: -

Brian Harvey - I Can Out
Scooch - Flying The Flag (For You) Winner
Liz McClarnon - (Don't It Make You) Happy Out
Big Brovaz - Big Bro Thang Out
Cyndi - I'll Leave My Heart Top two
Justin Hawkins (The Darkness) and Beverlei Brown - They Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To Out

Hawkins and Brown replaced the Puppini Sisters who could not come up with a suitable song in time.

1 Rumours
2 Announcement blunder
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Rumours

Before the acts were officially announced on 28 February 2007 a number of rumours had been circulating with regards to who would be entering the pre-selection show. Such rumours included:-

Ace of Base (Denied on their website sometime prior to official reveal))^[1]

Scissor Sisters

Morrissey (The BBC had approached him in January 2007 but failed to produce a song in time)

Also the Norwegian drag act Queentastic^[2] and the 2006 UK Represenative Daz Sampson (who wanted to duet with Carol Decker)^[3] had expressed an interest in participation. Daz had submitted a song entitled Goodbye but the BBC felt it was too soon for him to enter the contest again and told Daz that he was not to be included in Making Your Mind Up 2007.

[edit] Announcement blunder

After the six songs were performed, the top two, by public vote, were put through to another vote. These were Cyndi and Scooch. They both sang again, and the public voted. The time was ready for the result to be announced.

Terry Wogan began a countdown comencing in 3. At the end of this, he announced the winner to be Cyndi while simultaneously co-host, Fearne Cotton revealed the winner to be Scooch. Wogan's announcement was much louder than Cotton's, leading many people to believe she had won. After several seconds of confusion, it was confirmed that Scooch were in fact the winners. The BBC has issued a written apology but did not give any reason or explanation for why the two hosts announced two different winners. Youtube video

[edit] See also

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Official Site

Individual entries in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007

Albania - Andorra - Armenia - Austria - Belarus - Belgium - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bulgaria - Croatia - Cyprus - Czech Republic - Denmark - Estonia - Finland - France - Georgia - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Iceland - Ireland - Israel - Latvia - Lithuania - Republic of Macedonia - Malta - Moldova - Montenegro - Netherlands - Norway - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Russia - Serbia - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - Switzerland - Turkey - Ukraine - United Kingdom

Note: Countries in italics are semi-finalists.

United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest