#BIRTHDAY: Stella Maessen is 69 today Those people who keep coming back for me. Is i good because they know what they’re doing? Or is it bad because they’re doing someone else out of a chance? Today’s birthday girl Stella Maessen disguised her appearances a little, by only […]
#BIRTHDAY: Jane Bogaert from Switzerland is 55 today It’s a scary fact that there will be more and more participants in our favourite TV show who were born after 2000. Does that make you feel old? It does me. Having these people who never knew the 20th Century […]
#BIRTHDAY: Jon Lilygreen is 35 today We have a false flagger today. Now that term can sometimes be derogatory, but it doesn’t need to be. Each broadcaster can make any rules they want, within reason. So if they want someone not from their country, fair enough. Today’s birthday […]
#BIRTHDAY: Michelle Courtens from the Netherlands is 41 today Imagine the dilemma. You’re taking part in Europe’s favourite TV show. It covers dozens of languages, and you want to make yourself stand out from the crowd. You family name might not be very easy to some parts of […]
#BIRTHDAY: Massiel from Spain is 75 today So soon into August, and we have a winner. Yes, some of you may know that there were contests before 2000, and some countries you might laugh at now have managed to win it in the past. It’s not all Sw*d*n […]
#BIRTHDAY: Ira Losco from Malta is 41 today That thing where you enjoy something so much, you want to do it again. We’ve all been there. But how many times has the second time not quite matched up to the first? This has happened often to those winners […]
#BIRTHDAY: Elena Gheorghe from Romania is 37 today When the weekend comes, what do you like to do? Do you start it with gin, tonic and lime? Do you hit the gym? Or do you work until late into the evening because you love your job so much? […]
#BIRTHDAY: Birgitta Haukdal from Iceland is 43 today Opening a contest is always daunting. Closing it is probably worse, because being on first means you can take advantage of the free bar in the Green Room for longer. Back in 2003 we were in sunny Rīga, which was […]
#BIRTHDAY: Susanne Georgi from Andorra is 46 today Sisters seem to be doing it for themselves lately. We’ve had a run of female vocalists lately, which is in no way a bad thing. And from all corners of Europe. Do you remember Andorra? They took part six times, […]
#BIRTHDAY: Evelina Sašenko from Lithuania is 35 today Can you cast your mind back to eleven years ago? What were you doing? Were you at school? Were you celebrating one of those ‘big’ birthdays that ends in a zero? Were you even a fan of our favourite TV […]