All of the rehearsals, hours upon hours of stage time for the artists and now finally we are approaching crunch time – and we’ll be there every step of the way. Tonight, the jury semi-final will take place in Ericsson Globen. All 18 countries will perform to earn half of their points as the national juries select their favourites. We …

This is all happening too fast. Tonight is the Jury Show for the First Semi Final. That means, starting 21:00 CET, the 18 countries that are allocated to this Semi, will take the Stage hoping to win over the Jury’s support and votes. So this means, it’s time to start predicting. As every year, it’s a battle Team Stockholm vs …

It’s already Eurovision week! Who can believe it? The shows and rehearsals are coming thick and fast and we’re now live from Ericsson Globe to blog the first full dress rehearsal of the first semi-final. You can follow our coverage of the action from Stockholm below. Don’t forget we will be live streaming from the press centre for tonight’s jury …

Some major breaking news is coming from the EBU within the last hour, as the organisation has revealed that global superstar Justin Timberlake will be a performer during the interval act of the grand final in this year’s Eurovision! It will be the first time that a non-contest-related superstar will perform at the contest’s final stage, which will see Timberlake …

During the red carpet this evening the big 5 countries selected their half of the final they will perform in. They randomly drew the half from a pot. Here are the big 5 and the half they drew: 1st Half – France 1st Half – Germany 1st Half – Italy 2nd Half – UK 2nd Half – Spain Sweden will …

No matter what happens at this year’s Eurovision, Albania’s Eneda Tarifa will not struggle for work afterwards. It turns out she hosts the Albania equivalent of Saturday Night Live and is one of Albania’s bigger TV stars! Aside from this, we spoke to the singer about her family, the beauty of Albania and the long hours of the Eurovision schedule. …

  Day Six of rehearsals and we’re now able to see everything from the arena! As always ESC United is in Stockholm taking you close to the action. There is a lot going on so why not stick around and join us today as we are going to Live Stream from the Press Center. That means you’ll get to see …

Hovi Star is one of the biggest personalities in this year’s contest and it really shines in the interviews and press conferences… including here! We chat to Hovi about how he gets to relax outside of the Eurovision bubble, his feelings about the stage and gives us an exclusive secret… Check out our interview with Israel’s Hovi Star below; Hovi …

Blue and Red, blue and red… but which colour is ManuElla’s favourite? The answer will SHOCK you! Now that the clickbait intro has worked, we got the chance to speak to Slovenia’s artist ManuElla about her beautiful home country, the dress she’ll be wearing during the performers and we’ll finally find out the answer to that illusive question… ManuElla will …

As we all know by now, Romania were removed from the competition as a result of unpaid debts a few weeks ago. But the planned participant, Ovidiu Anton, has today revealed what would have been his performance for “Moment of Silence” at the contest if Romania were still in – and it looks really good! In a series of photos …