After epic versions from 26 countries and votes cast by both the jury and the viewing public, we have our Eurovision Song Contest 2025 winner.
Tonight the grand finale took place in Basel, Switzerland, with the competition held there after the victory of Nemo with the code in 2024.
Representative of the British, three-part Pop-Country Girl-Groep reminded me on Monday a high-fashion performance of their theatrical melody, what the hell has just happened?
But after a long score process, we can reveal that Austria has won with their participant, JJ.
The melody of the 24-year-old artist showed Love incredible vocals, and he now follows in the footsteps of earlier Austrian victories, including drag artist Conchita Wurst in 2014 with Rise Like a Phoenix, and 1966’s Udo Jurgens with Merci Cherie.
The JJ, born in Vienna, is an Austrian-Filipino-Operazanger and studies at the Music and Art Private University of Vienna (MUK).
After his winning moment, the singer – real name Johannes Pietsch – went on stage to proudly lift the trophy, visibly emotional.
After the conclusion of the results of the jury voice, Austria was firmly at the top of the scoreboard with 258 points, while Switzerland became second with 214 and France had 180.
Of course the public mood is known for turning the whole thing upside down; That is why it came down to the thread between Austria and Israel, with Yuval Raphael the rankings fly up thanks to the audience at home.
Consequently, JJ required the equivalent of 100 of the public to win, which he passed by by packaging 178 more points, and claimed the victory with a total of 436.
JJ said tears on the microphone: ‘I want to thank my whole family, my whole team, thank you very much for making my dreams come true. And especially for you, Europe, thank you for making my dreams come true.
‘Love is the strongest power in the world. Let’s spread more love.
“Thank you very much.”
He then played again wasted love when the thousands of strong crowd sang along.
In the meantime, the British girls’ group, which consists of Lauren Byrne, Holly-Anne Hull and Charlotte Steele, received a total of 88 points, so that the previous curse of our acts was completely destroyed with ‘NIL points’.
Although that didn’t change all With the addition of the viewer’s voice, because the trio did not receive anything from the audience and she placed 19th, only one position behind 2024 entry Olly Alexander.
The United Kingdom has won Eurovision only five times in its history, the last in 1997 when Katrina and the waves won in Dublin, Ireland, with the song Love Shine a Light.
Since then, one of the strongest versions of the UK when Tiktok star Sam Ryder in 2022 achieved second place in Turin with Space Man. Liverpool organized the competition on behalf of war affected by war the following year.
But at least no country went home empty -handed tonight, although San Marino was at the bottom of the Leaderboard with only 27 points for their song Tutta L’Italia.
The UK was also in good company with its public voting results, because Vaeb van Iceland, whose song was called Roa, became Nothing of the jury and finished in 25th place after 33 points of the viewers.
Tonight the national jury votes of the UK were announced by singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor after Doctor WHO actor Ncuti Gatwa withdrew a few days ago from the spokesperson for the British spokesperson for Eurovision, stating ‘unforeseen circumstances’.
Our 12 points went to Latvia, while we also awarded 10 points to Denmark and eight to Austria.
As for the viewer’s voice, the UK gave 12 points to Israel, 10 to Poland and eight to Lithuania.
Elsewhere in the final, former champion Nemo returned with a reproduced version of their winning track, while the previous Eurovision-Runners-up Croatia Baby Lasagna and Kaarija in Finland also performed a raw duet.
But the competition did not conclude exactly without problems, because the Israeli entry Raphael had almost stormed her performance by demonstrators.
The police confirmed that protesters were trying to climb over the barrier of the crowd to throw paint at her, who ended up over an ESC crew member.
They were immediately removed from the location and transferred to the police who let them go.
Protests against Israel’s involvement in Eurovision are raging all week, with hundreds of takeover of the streets of Basel, only a few hours before the final started and was confronted with the police.
Spanish broadcasters also risked a fine by displaying a pro-Palestinian message in the midst of the continuing Gaza war, despite the fact that this was previously warned that this would lead to a fine, since Eurovision would be ‘non-politics’.
More tears were shed when it became clear that Celine was Dion not Will appear next days of pests.
Rumors flew around for days, while fans were convinced that she was a surprising comeback after she had credited her Eurovision of 1988 for her global success.
Unfortunately, it seems that the sincere video message in Tuesday’s semi -final is everything we would ever get.
Tonight’s final was organized by Michelle Hunziker, who was accompanied by semi-final hosts Hazel Brugger and Sandra Studer on stage in St. Jakobsshalle.
Switzerland organized the competition for the first time in 1956 in Lugano, where the government of Basel estimates that more than half a million people have visited the city so far this week.
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