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Blue: Eurovision is not “career suicide”

By | Published on Friday 11 March 2011

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Blue have denied that representing the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest this year is “career suicide”. Which most interestingly, suggests they think they’ve had some sort of “career” since reforming two years ago.

The band’s Simon Webbe told reporters yesterday: “We don’t see this as career suicide, even if a lot of people will see it that way. It’s a great way to show we are a live group and we are back after ten years”. Duncan James added: “We felt quite privileged to be asked. How many opportunities do you get to represent your country?”

Of the notorious Eurovision political voting which caused Terry Wogan’s departure as the BBC’s commentator on the event, James said: “People always say the UK aren’t particularly liked in Europe and we don’t get the points. But they’re trying to change the block voting so it becomes less political”.

Meanwhile Lee Ryan said it was a “cop out” to claim that differences between countries had anything to do with it: “It’s nothing to do with being English. It’s because we haven’t put a good song in for a long time”.

You can find out if Blue have bucked that trend when they perform the song on ‘The Graham Norton Show’ on BBC One tonight.



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