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And now we can add Italy! Mahmood & Blanco won Sanremo tonight, but we had to wait for them to officially confirm their participation in Turin, which came through moments ago. This is the second Sanremo victory for Mahmood, following his win in 2019, and of course he went on to place 2nd at Eurovision in Tel-Aviv that year behind Duncan Laurence. Here’s their Sanremo entry, which will 99% be the song they’ll send to Turin… ITALY 🇮🇹:

We can now add Israel to the list after they decided their entry via their X Factor final earlier tonight… ISRAEL 🇮🇱:

Two more entries decided tonight (North Macedonia and Ireland)! Tomorrow we will know the entries for Israel and Italy! It’s all starting to happen! NORTH MACEDONIA 🇲🇰: IRELAND 🇮🇪:

Ah yes, she of this all-time legendary meme…

Certainly quite the exit…

Thanks for those clips! It took me a little while to clock that that was Louise Shaffer playing Serena Farraday (and man she did that so incredibly). Incidentally, the full follow-up episode to all of that is also on YouTube…

As much as people hate what Sonny and Carly have become nowadays, there’s no denying that back then, they were sizzling hot and the chemistry was through the charts…

Peeps, we now have TWO more confirmed songs. Moldova chose theirs in a live-streamed internal selection this afternoon, and Spain made their choice tonight in a nail biting vote in the final of Benidorm Fest. Songs are below, and have also been added to the first post: MOLDOVA 🇲🇩: SPAIN 🇪🇸:

If Days is going Melaswen 2.0, could it possibly be that Laura is also on the island?

DAYS history was made on this day 36 years ago…

The comment on this made it worthwhile…

Speaking of which, this apparently happened on this day 18 years ago…

Quite an update here! Firstly, we have a LOGO and SLOGAN! The Sound Of Beauty, inspired by the phenomenon of cymatics… More info around the theme art is here: https://eurovision.tv/story/the-sound-of-beauty Also, the allocation draw for the semi-finals was completed today in Turin, and here’s how it panned out below. To note, this is NOT the finalised running order - that will be determined by the producers once all songs and staging plans are submitted to the EBU. S***’s getting real, folks!

I’m also currently self-isolating after a positive test on Tuesday morning (had had mild symptoms since Saturday night). I’m feeling 99% better with no symptoms, bar a feeling of heat coming off my body (but temperature is normal). Still a positive lateral flow this morning, but I’m not overly fussed about that. Thankfully also triple vaxxed here (double Janssen + Pfizer booster).

Watched the follow up scenes from yesterday - writers made the right call in putting these two together. Josh Swickard and Amanda Setton play it so naturally.

11 years exactly between these two scenes - Peter Reckell didn’t change a bit! When did Kristian Alfonso start to lose that baby-ish roundness of her face?

The draw for the semi-final allocations for Eurovision 2022 will be taking place on 25 January at 12:00 CET. Countries apart from the Big 5 (who automatically gain entry to the Grand Final) will be randomly allocated to one of the two semi-finals, as well as which half of that semi-final. Each of the 36 semi-finalists has been designated to certain pots to minimise as much as possible the risk of “block voting”, as you can see below. There will also be a separate draw to determine in which semi-final each Big 5 country will be allowed to vote in.

I actually like the way they played that Britt/Nina scene yesterday. It’s a family connection that hasn’t been explored anywhere near enough on this show, and it was quite cool how Britt was full on trying to convince (manipulate?) Nina to reach out to Sonny. Considering who their mothers are (sisters who hated each other’s guts), this is a dynamic I’m keen to see explored a lot more.

Is that Lane Davies playing Evan?

Not meaning to deviate too much away from the current stuff, but I was under the impression that Peter had always been evil even from the time he was brought on back in 1993 (wasn’t he originally brought to town by Stefano to get rid of John who was coming between Kristen and “Tony”).

Chase and BrookLyn need to just get it on already (I just watched their Thursday scenes) do they have an official couple name yet? Brase, maybe?

Where do peeps on here believe the writers are going with Sonny potentially cutting off his medication?

I actually liked the Sprina/Ava scenes today. What struck me in particular was when Spencer and Ava were talking about Trina - Spencer actually dropped his guard around Ava and was quite honest about how he had let Trina down. Spencer and Ava may hate each other’s guts, but it was really nice to see them actually connect over Trina. I think it has been mentioned somewhere upthread, but it does seem like, in a way, that Ava is lowkey rooting for Sprina to happen (and indeed seems to be setting things up that way).

Being autistic myself, I think it is absolutely amazing that they are using real-life autistic kids in these roles - it goes to show that there is nothing wrong with portraying neurodiversity honestly and without all the usual stereotypical bells and whistles.