Ally Ross
Updated: May 28 2021, 6:22 ET
Ally Ross
THE Eurovision votes had already been cast by 11pm. Humiliation was in the post.
All our host Graham Norton had to do was avoid tempting fate. So what does he go and say? “If James Newman doesn’t come last, we’ve done better than 2019 . . . ”
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Unfortunately Britain's James Newman secured zero votesCredit: pixel8000
One hour but not a single vote later, James had “solidified Britain’s position”, in much the same way as we did at Gallipoli in 1915.
The climax of a head-spinning four hours at the Ahoy Arena in Rotterdam, where I’d felt slightly short-changed by a lot of the acts ever since BBC4’s semi-final host Scott Mills told us: “Moldova have dropped the dancing ice-creams from their set.”