Been doing some digging. UEFA’s Executive Committee (apparently organising the vote) met just 11 days ago in Albania. The EC meets four times a year (presumably every three months ish) meaning the likelihood of a vote taking place tomorrow is near zero. #Eurovision www.uefa.com/news-media/n...

⚽️ 🇮🇱 Lots of talk on social media about a potential vote being held by UEFA this week regarding Israel’s membership. UEFA would never publicly confirm whether this is happening, but I’ve not seen any reputable football journalist confirm it is happening either. Happy to be proven wrong though.

🏆 So… after much confusion, Vietnam 🇻🇳 has won the Intervision Song Contest. Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 came second 🥈 and Qatar came third 🥉. #Intervision

They’ve just announced that Intervision will take place again next year - in Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦. (They haven’t won - yet). #Intervision

If you do give in to temptation and watch some of the entries, I recommend Vietnam’s 🇻🇳. Clearly the best so far imo. Would have been a great asset to Eurovision Asia had it… you know… existed. #Intervision

Serbia 🇷🇸 next. They’ve managed to send someone… A) worse than Princ B) with worse hair than Princ. #Intervision

🇧🇷 Brazil’s entry is exactly as you would expect… #Intervision

🇷🇺 Russia has just performed. It wouldn’t win ordinarily, but presumably the jurors are sent to the gulag if they don’t give them their maximum points. #Intervision

🇺🇸 So they showed the ‘postcard’ for the US entry… which then never happened, seemingly confirming BBC reports tonight that the artist withdrew at the last moment. Some sort of explanation (?) was given in Russian, but not translated into English. #Intervision

And a few more minutes for Sergey Lavrov to show up. #Intervision

One Eurovision record Intervision will break tonight is the time taken before the first song is performed… …we’re at 23 mins and counting. #Intervision

It took four minutes for Putin to make an appearance. Four. Remember, Intervision isn’t political though. #Intervision

Yes, I’m watching *it* on the side this evening. (Can’t miss potential car crash TV). Not sure how much I’ll be able to stomach, especially with Dima Bilan and Polina Gagarina appearing within the first ten seconds.

In true Eurofan style, we need to do a ranking of all the broadcasters' statements.

We’ll look back in a few years as this being the most bonkers period in Eurovision history. Eurovision getting BBC News coverage in *September* is insane. On a serious note, there’s a lot of misinformation in this report. The BBC have got to do better. #Eurovision

We’re all only interested in that last point… let’s be honest 👀 #Eurovision

🚨🇪🇸 RTVE have confirmed they will decide whether they will withdraw from Eurovision 2026 if Israel participates TOMORROW. RTVE’s Board Of Directors will meet at 9:30am CET tomorrow morning. #Eurovision www.rtve.es/noticias/202...

Maybe I’m a saddo, but I’m honestly considering setting up some sort of ‘fact checking’ account for Eurovision. The large ‘news’ accounts on Instagram are just off the rails with the fake news at the moment and Twitter is the usual cesspit it is as well. Infuriating. #Eurovision

Easily the worst thing about Eurovision making the ‘mainstream’ news headlines is that it invites people who know absolutely *nothing* about it to talk about it online… and it just makes me want to smash my head against a wall. I know we’re not all experts on everything, but still 😂 #Eurovision

I reckon a similar statement from RTVE 🇪🇸 soon and then the game is up. Critical questions going forward: 🔘 What will Germany/Italy do - particularly 🇩🇪? 🔘 Is there any chance ORF 🇦🇹 refuse to host an ‘Israelless’ Eurovision? If so, it surely results in Eurovision 2026 being cancelled. #Eurovision

Don’t sleep on this - this is just as significant as the *other* news today. Eurovision is just in such a desperate mess at the moment by pretty much every metric. So many problems and so few solutions. It’s very sad to see. #Eurovision

It’s going to be a *very* long three months until December, isn’t it? The EBU should just call an extraordinary meeting ahead of the General Assembly and crack on with the vote. It’s not good for anyone for this to be dragging on any further. #Eurovision

A humiliating skewering was well overdue for this odious man. Well done to those American politicians. Ours should stop being spineless cowards and do the same.

We had 43 countries take part in 2018. Looks like we’ll be down to 36 (at most) for 2026. Essentially we’ve lost one per year for one reason or another. The EBU needs to wake up. Quickly. #Eurovision

🚨 The EBU have confirmed the 95th General Assembly will take place on 4-5 December in Geneva. The ‘formal business’ usually happens on the first day, so expect the vote on Israel’s 🇮🇱 Eurovision participation to take place on 4 December. #Eurovision www.ebu.ch/events/gener...

Suggests to me that the EBU aren’t expecting many, if any, countries to withdraw over Israel, regardless of which the way vote goes. You wouldn’t make it ‘easier’ if lots of countries were threatening it. Gives an off ramp for countries like Slovenia 🇸🇮 though, should they wish. #Eurovision

💭 Remember, remember the first of September… rule 😉 Happy Eurovision New Year everyone! 🍾 #Eurovision

For all its faults - and there are many - I still actually quite enjoyed the show. The premise still is excellent. Feel like it got less annoying as it went on. There’s nothing there that can’t be fixed reasonably easily for series two - assuming there is one. #DestinationX

💷 Well done Judith. Good luck getting that case of cash through customs though #DestinationX

You also showed all the locations in order, Rob 😉 #DestinationX

🇮🇹 This show is so poorly edited. The distance that popped up at the start (~450km) would rule out Rome from Monte-Carlo, yet the first city to have a population of a million was… Rome… and we know from the airports theory that tonight’s X is Rome. Ugh. #DestinationX

EBU vs Bhutan 🇧🇹 was not on my bingo card this year. Still, we’ll always have these legends. #Eurovision

📢 Interesting announcement from UEFA earlier that the men’s Champions League final will kick off three hours earlier from now on at 18:00 CET. Fan experience is cited as the main reason for the change but UEFA also claim it’s a more “accessible broadcast window” that will engage younger viewers.

I mean… I’m not sure saying it’s hard enough to find jurors in Finland that aren’t biased as it is (whatever that means?) and then saying you want juries to be expanded is really that good of an argument if I’m being honest. Pleased he shares televote concerns though. #Eurovision

Curiously, neither Bhutan or Vietnam are EBU associates - makes sense given the figure of 18 possibly participating. EBU associates in Asia/Oceania: 🇦🇺 Australia 🇧🇩 Bangladesh 🇨🇳 China 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇮🇷 Iran 🇯🇵 Japan 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan 🇲🇾 Malaysia 🇲🇺 Mauritius 🇳🇿 NZ 🇴🇲 Oman 🇰🇷 South Korea 🇸🇾 Syria #Eurovision

🇧🇹 BBS claim that the competition will consist of 18 countries and take place in January in Mumbai. There’s three episodes of this up already on YouTube and the semi-final takes place tomorrow. I can officially say I’ve seen it all now when it comes to Eurovision 😂 #Eurovision

Gyökeres scores and immediately Saka gets injured. It is impossible for Arsenal fans to have nice things. #ARSLEE

🇮🇱 One of Israel’s largest newspapers is tonight reporting that the issue of Israel’s Eurovision participation will be revisited in *December* - presumably at the winter EBU General Asssembly in Geneva #Eurovision www.israelhayom.com/2025/08/20/w...

Looks like a budget Celebrity Cyclone. #DestinationX

The same regulator that wouldn’t have allowed the BBC to air KANT 🇲🇹 in May and won’t let Big Brother have a smoking area thinks it’s ok to say on national TV that disabled people should be shot. Ofcom is beyond a disgrace. Draconian in one regard, pathetic in others. #Eurovision #Ofcom

So we’re down to Pisa 🇮🇹 tomorrow, either Nice 🇫🇷 or Monte-Carlo 🇲🇨 (think it’s Monte-Carlo) for EP 9 and Rome 🇮🇹 for the finale - hopefully. #DestinationX

Very frustrating that the one who gets her information from ChatGPT gets it exactly right. Ugh. #DestinationX

My airport theory is looking strong again 👀 Looks like Pula 🇭🇷 tonight! #DestinationX

Imagine Graham Norton describing *this* on the night of the final. “And now, just to make the evening even longer than it is, we have to wait for [insert winner here] to be BUSSED in from somewhere in the city. Hopefully they don’t blow a tyre.” #Eurovision

🇦🇹 I, for one, am *shocked* that Innsbruck and its three hotel rooms hasn’t been chosen to host the world’s largest music event #Eurovision

🔒🇦🇹 Vienna. 16th May. Locking it in. Only real excitement tomorrow is the dates - hard to see ORF wanting a clash with the German Cup Final (23rd), but could happen I guess. 19, 21, 23 would be the same dates they hosted in 2015, so if they wanted to go down that route, they could. #Eurovision

🎨 I think (hope) the new logo will look slightly better tomorrow as it’s configured for the host city - hopefully with a heart flag. Don’t really know why they didn’t wait until tomorrow to reveal it all to be honest. Think seeing it all in action properly would have gone down better #Eurovision

🇦🇹 On this day of rebrands, it’s amazing that MSNBC (of all things) managed to include the Austrian flag in their new logo, but Eurovision, which is soon to be hosted in Austria, did not. What a crazy timeline we’re in. #Eurovision #MSNBC

I have… many thoughts about Martin Green going on camera to say that Eurovision is a “young event about pop music.” (Source: Eurotrip) For the Director of the competition to actually think that is quite astounding really. It’s a typically British and ignorant attitude. #Eurovision

Prefer mine, tbh, if I do say so myself. #Eurovision