Finland's ambassador to the UK, Jaakko Laajava, has been busy defending Eurovision winners Lordi against accusations that they are goat-killing, evil-worshipping devil lovers.
Shockingly, the fact that they like to dress as monsters is said to have no actual bearing on their personal beliefs, and they are not, in fact, Satanists, despite what some conservatives in Eurovision host country Greece might have been saying. Archbishop Christodoulos of the Greek Orthodox Church claimed in a sermon on Sunday that the band's win showed that "people are seeking something to prop themselves on and fill their empty souls."
As previously reported, the band's lead singer, who also calls himself 'Lordi', has said: "We are not Satanists. We are not devil-worshippers. This is entertainment."
Now ambassador Laajava has echoed those sentiments, telling Radio 4's Today programme: "This is entertainment. Let's not take this too seriously. They have produced an album called 'The Devil Is A Loser' and maybe that tells a little bit about this."
He added: "We have not been really spectacularly successful in Eurovision before and we are all very thrilled and encouraged by this. There are other very successful heavy metal bands in Finland [who are] known also here in Britain - Nightwish, HIM, Rasmus and others. So there is some tradition in this area."