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The Netherlands: Joost Klein seems to have admitted his unlawful act!

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A new update has emerged regarding the disqualification of the Netherlands’ Joost Klein hours before the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, despite having qualified from Thursday’s second semi-final.

According to the widely circulated Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, Dutch representative Joost Klein appears to have confessed to this violent behavior by using his fist against a photographer from this year’s competition production, justifying his act by saying that the entire approach by the photographers was something stressful to him.

A prosecution is expected, with a preliminary trial date reportedly set for June.

The head of the investigation hotline section in Malmö stated that:

“It doesn’t really matter if the person is still in the country, we can pursue that case anyway.”

Source: Aftonbladet

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Eurovision 2024: The detailed results of the two Semi-Finals!

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Just following the conclusion of the 68th Eurovision Song Contest, EBU released the detailed voting results from both Semi-Finals.

Semi-Final One
  1. Croatia: 177 points
  2. Ukraine: 173 points
  3. Ireland:124 points
  4. Lithuania: 119 points
  5. Luxembourg: 117 points
  6. Cyprus: 67 points
  7. Finland: 59 points
  8. Portugal: 58 points
  9. Slovenia: 51 points
  10. Serbia: 47 points
  11. Australia: 41 points
  12. Poland: 35 points
  13. Moldova: 20 points
  14. Azerbaijan: 11 points
  15. Iceland: 3 points

Croatia won the public voting, while Iceland finished last with 3 points. Australia finished eleventh missing the spot for the Grand Final for just 7 points.

Semi-Final Two
  1. Israel: 194 points
  2. Netherlands: 182 points
  3. Armenia: 137 points
  4. Switzerland: 132 points
  5. Greece: 86 points
  6. Estonia: 79 points
  7. Latvia: 72 points
  8. Georgia: 54 points
  9. Austria: 46 points
  10. Norway: 43 points
  11. Czechia: 38 points
  12. Denmark: 36 points
  13. Belgium: 18 points
  14. San Marino: 16 points
  15. Albania: 14 points
  16. Malta: 13 points

Israel won the public voting, while Malta finished last with 13 points. Czechia finished eleventh missing the spot for the Grand Final for just 6 points.

Netherlands despite finishing second was later disqualified, due to Joost Klein’s alleged inappropriate behavior to a SVT’s female worker.

Source: eurovision.tv

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Israel: Stylist kicked out of Eurovision venue for filming contestant!

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Shortly before the final dress rehearsal for the Eurovision Song Contest grand final on Saturday, representatives from Greece, Ireland and Switzerland clashed with Israeli contestant Eden Golan‘s stylist Itay Bezaleli in an unusual incident.

He has since returned to the event, but the Israeli broadcasting corporation reported that at the organizers’ request, “the Israeli delegation was moved to a different room within the delegation area. Eden Golan and her team are solely focused on tonight’s performance, striving to ensure it is professional and represents Israel in the most honorable and appropriate manner.”

Israeli representatives explained that the move was designed to distance the Israeli team from the nearby Irish delegation. In an unusual occurrence for the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the final dress rehearsal started 17 minutes late. Representatives from Ireland, Greece and Switzerland—Bambie Thug, Marina Satti, and Nemo, who were mentioned by Bezaleli in his story—were absent from the delegation presentation at the start of the rehearsal. The EBU clarified that the representatives were not obligated to participate in the delegation presentation.

Irish contestant Bambie Thug did not appear at the rehearsal and shared on social media that there was “a situation while we were waiting to go to the stage for the flag parade rehearsal which I felt needed urgent attention from the EBU – the EBU have taken this matter seriously and we have been in a discussion about what action needs to be taken. This means I have missed my dress rehearsal – I am really sorry to the fans that have come to see me. I hope to see you on the stage tonight.”

Source: ynetnews

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Eurovision 2024: The results of the sixth and last day of the Press Poll!

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The 2024 Press Poll is underway, as we have previously informed you. Now that all countries have had their rehearsals, it’s time for the accredited journalists to cast their votes for the country that they believe will win the Eurovision Song Contest 2024. Read more

The Netherlands: Cornald Maas on disqualification – “F*ck the EBU”!

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AVROTROS earlier on released a statement about the incident that led to the disqualification of Joost Klein from this year’s Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final! The national broadcaster had a serious reaction against the resolution of the issue by the EBU and the frustration never ends!

Cornald Maas has reacted to the disqualification of Joost Klein. The commentator can’t understand why Joost is not allowed to play in the Eurovision final. Cornald Maas is furious about Joost Klein‘s disqualification and on an informal press conference he commented:

“F*ck the EBU!”

Source: nu.nl

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Εurovision 2024: Τhe results of the Marcel Bezençon Awards 2024!

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As every year, shortly before the Eurovision 2024 Grand Final, the Marcel Bezençon Awards ceremony took place.

These awards, which were established in 2002 and are the brainchild of Christer Björkman (Sweden’s representative at Eurovision 1992 and current head of Sweden’s delegation) and Richard Herrey (member of the band The Herreys, who won first place on behalf of 1984), they are awarded shortly before the big Eurovision Final to some selected participants.

The specific awards were named after the founder of Eurovision, Marcel Bezençon, and are divided into three categories:

  1. Press Award (awarded by accredited journalists)
  2. Composer Award (consisting of a special jury composed of various composers participating in each event for the most artistic musical participation)
  3. Artist award (given to the most liked artist and voted by the commentators of the state bodies of the respective organization, while until 2009 this award was voted by the previous Eurovision winners)

For the 68th Song Contest, these awards are won by:

  1. Press Award – Baby Lasagna- Croatia
  2. Artistic Award –”The Code”- Switzerland
  3. Composer’s Award –Benjamin Alasu, Lasse Midtsian Nymann, Linda Dale, and Nemo Mettler for “The Code”- Switzerland

 

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Finland: Käärijä will not give out the jury votes!

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We now have another withdrawal from tonight’s line-up. Following Alessandra Mele, Käärijä announced that he will not give out the Finnish votes.

The announcement was made by Käärijä himself via an Instagram story, in which he mentioned:

I have decided not to participate as the spokesperson for the Finnish jury in tonight’s Eurovision finale. Giving out the points tonight does not feel right.

We are still waiting the decision from EBU’s crisis meeting…

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Breaking News: AVROTROS statement about the incident that led to the Dutch disqualification!

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AVROTROS just released a statement about the incident that led to the disqualification of Joost Klein from this year’s Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final! The statement reads the following:

“An incident occurred after last Thursday’s performance.
Against clearly made agreements, Joost was filmed when he had just gotten off stage and had to rush to the greenroom. At that moment, Joost repeatedly indicated that he did not want to be filmed. This wasn’t respected. This led to a threatening movement from Joost towards the camera. Joost did not touch the camera woman. This incident was reported, followed by an investigation by the EBU and police. Yesterday and today we consulted extensively with the EBU and proposed several solutions. Nevertheless, the EBU has still decided to disqualify Joost Klein.

AVROTROS finds the penalty very heavy and disproportionate. We stand for good manners -let there be no misunderstanding about that- but in our view, an exclusion order is not proportional to this incident. We are very disappointed and upset for the millions of fans who were so excited for tonight. What Joost brought to the Netherlands and Europe shouldn’t have ended this way.”

Source: AVROTROS

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Eurovision 2024: This the running order of the announcement of the jury votes!

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In just a few hours, the Grand Final of the 68th European Eurovision Song Contest starts live from Malmö Arena in Malmö. 25 countries compete in tonight’s Grand Final for the coveted prize.

Tonight’s results will come from a combination of the judges’ vote and the public’s vote. First, we’ll watch the judges vote on our screens, and then the combined televote score for each country will be announced.
In the first part of the voting, we will hear the votes of the juries of each country, which will be announced by the spokespersons, while the order of announcing the scores of the juries will be as follows:
  1. Ukraine – Jamala
  2. United Kingdom – Joanna Lumley
  3. Luxembourg – Désirée Nosbusch
  4. Azerbaijan – Aysel
  5. San Marino
  6. Malta – Matt Blxck
  7. Croatian
  8. Albania – Andri Xhahu
  9. Czechia
  10. Israel – Maya Alkulumbre
  11. Australia – Daniel Estrin
  12. Denmark – Stéphanie Surrugue
  13. Spain – Soraya
  14. Norway
  15. Germany – Tina Müller
  16. Armenia – Brunette
  17. Slovenia – Lorella Flego
  18. Georgia – Sopho Khalvashi
  19. Switzerland – Jennifer Bosshard
  20. Moldova
  21. Greece – Elena Paparizou
  22. Estonia – Birgit Sarrap
  23. Netherlands – Nikkie Tutorials
  24. Austria – Philipp Hansa
  25. France – Natasha St-Pier
  26. Italy – Mario Acampa
  27. Finland – Kaarija
  28. Portugal – Marisa Mena
  29. Belgium – Livia Dushkoff
  30. Iceland – Friðrik Ómar
  31. Latvia
  32. Ireland – Paul Harrington
  33. Poland – Viki Gabor
  34. Cyprus – Loukas Hamatsos
  35. Lithuania – Monika Linkite
  36. Serbia – Konstrakta
  37. Sweden – Frans

This year, we start with Ukraine, while the United Kingdom will announce its ranking second. The voting of the juries will close with Sweden, this year’s host country.

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Breaking News: EBU in crisis meeting following strong reactions in the Dutch delegation!

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The disqualification of Dutch artist Joost Klein has provoked strong reactions in the Dutch delegation. The EBU is currently in a crisis meeting, according to information to SVT.

As you have previously read in our past article, Joost Klein and the Dutch delegation have been disqualified from participating in the contest, following an incident with a person working for the production of the contest and a filed complaint.

Currently, the situation is being investigated by the Swedish police and both sides are being interrogated.

Source: SVT Nyheter

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