Eurovision 2026

Here are my top three entries from this year's Eurovision Singing Competition - there were less to choose from than in most years because some countries decided not to enter this time, but at least that made the voting quicker!

My favourite entry was from Greece, which saw a manny dressed as a cat (this was always going to go down well with the cats in the audience - maybe if they had sent an actual cat they would have won, lol) running on the spot to some computer game-inspired backgrounds... although I didn't spot any Civilization references among them.

Also good was the entry from Romania. I am guessing that Xena: Warrior Princess is still popular over there?

Also going for a similar theme of leather-clad fantasy film and TV shows of the past was Serbia, who sent the Kurgan and some Chaos Warriors.

I think this is him after he just chopped Sean Connery's hed off.

My honourable mention goes to Italy's entry, which had its song tell a story through the dancing that was comprehensible even to us cats who don't understand Italian. It told the story of a wedding in three minutes, which as we all know is the correct amount of time for a cat relationship.

The interval act contained a medley of previous Eurovision hits, to celebrate this being the 70th anniversary of Eurovision. There weren't just past winners included - we noticed a short burst of Dschinghis Khan, which came fourth in 1979.

If this only came fourth, imagine how high the standard must have been for the top three!

Actually, it was probably the case that the mannys voted for the wrong ones that year, like they usually do - stupid mannys. This year the UK's entry got only a single, solitary point and came last, and while I don't think it was good enough that it should have won, I also don't think that the gap between it and the other songs was nearly so big as the points difference made it seem.

Just like last year the song from Israel came in second place, and the stupid voting system that they for some reason insist on keeping (where it takes ages for all the countries to give out a few points at a time, and then at the end the hosts just add on massive blocks of points in one go, without us even getting to see where or who they come from) made it seem as though they might win for a while, but in the end they were beaten by a massive 173-point margin by the real winners.

The winning song was a joyful and enthusiastic - and quite silly - song from Bulgaria, which was a deserved winner even if it wasn't one of my personal favourites. Congratulations to them.

Also, the Polish singer said "shit" about 1 minute 20 seconds into her song, lol.