Eurovision latest: Rumours of special secret at Eurovision grand final - as PM weighs into Zelenskyy row

It's a press only viewing but mutters overheard in the audience include"best opening ceremony ever", and"it bought a tear to my eye".

At one point audience members are asked to put the torches on their mobiles on and wave them in the air, which the majority dutifully do.Who are the favourites to win this year? Winning this year would put Sweden level with Ireland for most wins and make Loreen the first woman to win it more than once.

Ukraine, of course, is also up there in the betting, with Tvorchi's track Heart of Steel, and will be desperately hoping to win once more, so the contest can be taken back home. Spain's Blanca Paloma, Norway's Alessandra and France's La Zarra are also expected to put in a challenge for the top spot.By Chris Lockyer, entertainment reporter in LiverpoolShe's a returning entrant for Sweden, after winning in 2012 with club anthem Euphoria.

We are told by hosts Graham Norton, Hannah Waddingham and Ukrainian TV star Julia Sanina that Luxembourg are coming home to the Eurovision family.Waddingham also shows off impressive French skills, explaining the voting system in her second language Austria is opening the show tomorrow - a daunting feat that stacks the odds against them.It is a thumping pop anthem with leotard-clad dancers, a light show, and lots of pictures of the poet behind them.

"We just wanted to make people laugh at the listening session because we had like an hour left, and we just were like, 'Oh, let's just do another song just for funsies' - and it turned out to not be just funsies.

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