Lorraine Kelly has leapt to Olly Alexander’s defence after a disappointing result for the UK at last night’s Eurovision Song Contest.
Years & Years singer Olly came 18th place out of 25 with his song Dizzy and finished with just 46 points in the jury vote from each country. To add insult to injury, he also received the dreaded ‘nul points’ from the audience vote.
Though the UK were nowhere near the top of the leaderboard, it was still an improvement on last year’s entry Mae Muller, who finished 25th out of 26 finalists with her catchy tune I Wrote A Song. Both were in stark contrast to when Sam Ryder came second in 2022 with his song Space Man.
It might not have been the UK’s night – with Nemo from Switzerland, who sang The Code, claiming the overall victory and becoming the first non-binary winner of the competition – but 33-year-old Olly still took it well and kept smiling as the results were finally revealed.
Since then he has remained silent, but last night he told fans: “TODAY IS THE DAY!! What a journey this has been!! thank you all SO MUCH for your support and love in the last few months I appreciate it sooo much. Here’s all the voting numbers for Dizzy if you feel so inclined to vote for me! thank u!! Don’t forget I love u all x.”
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Taking to X, formerly known as Twitter, Lorraine – who interviewed Olly before he went to Eurovision, which was held in Malmo, Sweden, this year – wrote: “Eurovision as wonderful and maddening and bonkers as ever. Our @alexander_olly gave a brilliant performance – I don’t understand the voting. Baffling. He handled it so well with grace and humour. Love him.”
Fans were quick to agree in the comments underneath, with one posting: “Yes the scoring is a complete mystery.” Another said: “OMG Olly, you were effing fantastic!!!” A third chimed in: “Baffled why the audience decided our Olly didn’t deserve any votes. I guess we won’t have the expense of staging it in 2025!”
A fourth fan explained: “What you have to remember is you have to come top 10 in any country to even get 1 point. So the televote people will have voted, but we could be 11th in many of them resulting on 0 points... don’t forget we hosted in 2023 and came 2nd in 2022. Many countries haven’t won the contest and Switzerland has just won for the first time since 1988 with Celine Dion.” While a fifth added: “It’s all political, Olly sounded great and to get no votes form the audience phone in proves it’s just political. We should pull out of entering the Eurovision.”
Olly on stage performing his track Dizzy, which finished 18th out of 25 at last night's Eurovision (Antti Aimo-Koivisto/REX/Shutterstock)Olly has been on had a difficult Eurovision journey after receiving complaints over his semi-final performance. The singer and actor – who had a starring role in Channel 4 drama It’s a Sin about the AIDS epidemic in the Eighties - seemingly had sound issues as fans took to social media to share their confusion, claiming something "wasn't right" with the performance.
As Olly sang his heart out, several fans questioned if something was wrong, as the microphone or audio appeared to be quiet. One fan asked: "I think Olly ( ) mic failed again like it did in rehearsal." Another added: "Just me or was Olly’s mic turned down what happened?"
in controversy due to Israel's participation in the contest amidst the ruthless bombardment of Palestine by . The UK contestant, who had previously signed a letter denouncing as an "apartheid regime" before his December reveal as the UK's contestant, faced backlash from fans and activists for not pulling out of this year's event.
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