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Czechia released their song for Rotterdam last night, “omaga” (not to be confused with a certain American political saying). It’s by Benny Cristo who was meant to represent Czechia last year before the contest was cancelled. As such, he was “reappointed” for this year...

Croatia chose their song for 2021 last night in their Dora national selection show - Tick-Tock by Albina:

F**k me... 🙁

Hang on... they *killed* off Laura??

Yep, she blamed him for AnEclair’s death. And everyone thought it was Hayley who was poisoning him.

Oh man the USENET forums used to go off about that back in the day... AnEclair! AnEclair!

I found myself on another Youtube rabbit hole this weekend, this time watching back on Mason and Julia’s storyline. God those two were so wonderful together. Playlist here if you’re interested:

To think she was only 14 when she started on GH (she would turn 15 three months later). We’ve seen her virtually grow up on screen over the last 44 years!

Official video clip for Voila released...

On this day 44 years ago, Genie Francis debuted as Laura, apparently...

I completely forgot Gloria’s involvement in Ryan’s introduction to Pine Valley!

Was this the start of Jack and Jen?

Germany also revealed their artist for 2021 yesterday (and it’s not Ben Dolic who was meant to represent them last year). It’s a ukulele-playing man from Hamburg by the name of Jendrik Sigwart...

Yes I watched Melodifestivalen tonight as well (I’m a hardcore Eurovision fan)! A very interesting set-up they’ve got down at Annexet, but it seems to have worked so far. And can I just say how much I *love* Lena Philipsson? ❤️ Seriously, I think the right songs went DTF tonight, but I was disappointed that Jessica Andersson got knocked out as she had an amazing song. The next few weeks will be interesting, especially with some more big names coming (Charlotte Perrelli, Eric Saade, Dotter, The Mamas, just to name a few). One of the heaviest big-named line-ups for Melfest in several years...

Lithuania have officially selected The Roop for the second year in a row, with their song Discoteque. Their national final Pabandom is Naujo still went ahead, but with The Roop getting a wildcard directly into the final which was tonight. That’s now 5 songs out of 41 officially confirmed and released.

This year’s Eurovision Song Contest is due to be held on 18/20/22 May in Rotterdam (as it was supposed to be last year before the contest was cancelled due to the pandemic). And despite said pandemic still raging, the EBU and Dutch broadcasters are better prepared this time, with a few fallback scenarios. Originally all 41 countries that were due to compete in 2020 were all confirmed for this year, however a couple of major developments have subsequently occurred: Armenia withdrew from the contest on 5/3/2021 due to domestic political issues. Belarus were disqualified from the contest on 26/3/2021 due to a song submission that did not meet the EBU guidelines and threatened to bring the contest into disrepute. The semi-final lineup will be exactly the same as was drawn last year, minus the above-mentioned withdrawals: At best, there will be a *very* limited audience in the Ahoy Arena. We now know that it will be a “Scenario B”, ie. most/all acts will perform live in Rotterdam in the Ahoy arena. The size of the audience (if any) will be determined in the coming weeks. In the meantime, here is the lineup for 2021... Albania 🇦🇱: Israel 🇮🇱: France 🇫🇷: Ukraine 🇺🇦: Lithuania 🇱🇹: Croatia 🇭🇷: Czechia 🇨🇿: Norway 🇳🇴: Finland 🇫🇮: Spain 🇪🇸: Cyprus 🇨🇾 : Germany 🇩🇪: Ireland 🇮🇪: Slovenia 🇸🇮: Belgium 🇧🇪: Romania 🇷🇴: Netherlands 🇳🇱: Moldova 🇲🇩: Australia 🇦🇺: Serbia 🇷🇸: Estonia 🇪🇪: Denmark 🇩🇰: Portugal 🇵🇹: Italy 🇮🇹: San Marino 🇸🇲: Russia 🇷🇺: Austria 🇦🇹: Greece 🇬🇷: Switzerland 🇨🇭: Bulgaria 🇧🇬: United Kingdom 🇬🇧: North Macedonia 🇲🇰: Poland 🇵🇱: Latvia 🇱🇻: Sweden 🇸🇪: Iceland 🇮🇸: Azerbaijan 🇦🇿: Georgia 🇬🇪: Malta 🇲🇹:

Oooo Anna is getting *thiiiiis* close....will she follow through though?

So what has everyone been thinking of the Tad & Jenny Martin & Jackie scenes recently?

The same Jameson Parker who played Brad Vernon on OLTL?

The man who helped raised millions of pounds for a struggling NHS in the UK last year during the pandemic has died of COVID himself today...

This is the man who singlehandedly raised millions of pounds for the NHS in the UK last year while they were struggling with the COVID pandemic. Ironically, he died of COVID today... 😢

The friend chemistry that sparks between Maura West and Cynthia Watros is so captivating to watch. They would have been electrifying as enemies (if Watros had been playing Nina at that time instead of Michelle Stafford).