Eurovision and the BBC programme Strictly Come Dancing have things in common. They both have a large fan base, and are popular TV viewing. However, there are times when we see our favourite contest spill over into Strictly Come Dancing, either through a Eurovision song being used in […]
The cold days are with us again, the nights are drawing in…which means the return of the popular BBC Competition Strictly Come Dancing .What has Strictly Come Dancing got to do with the Eurovision Song Contest,you may ask? Well, during each series we often see a connection between […]
The cold days are with us again, the nights are drawing in…which means the return of the popular BBC Competition Strictly Come Dancing .What has Strictly Come Dancing got to do with the Eurovision Song Contest,you may ask? Well, during each series we often see a connection between […]
The cold days are with us again, the nights are drawing in…which means the return of the popular BBC Competition Strictly Come Dancing .What has Strictly Come Dancing got to do with the Eurovision Song Contest,you may ask? Well, during each series we often see a connection between […]
Tonight will see the launch of Strictly Come Dancing 2023. We spoke to one of this year’s celebrity participants back in Turin, before we knew he was going to be participating – BBC Radio 2’s Richie Anderson. Richie Anderson told us about life at BBC Radio 2, his […]
Six new celebrities took to the Strictly Come Dancing dance floor – including former UK commentator Mel Giedroyc. She was up against Adrian Chiles, Anne-Marie, Fred Sirieix, Jay Blades and Moira Stuart. Mel Giedroyc took to the dance floor with professional partner Neil Jones. Their Street-Commercial routine scored […]
As those of us who are fans are aware, Strictly Come Dancing returned to UK TV screens in September and through out the weeks so far, we at Eurovision Ireland, have been watching out for any connections between Eurovision and the UK’s very popular dance competition , starting […]
As we have seen , recently with Måneskin’s song “Beggin” being used as one the dance tracks for one of the Strictly Come Dancing 2021 couples, Eurovision often makes its presence felt in the UK’s leading Dance competition. This week, while we haven’t had a former Eurovision song […]
So , while we’ve ended one Eurovision season and started another ( patiently waiting for the host city to be announced for ESC Italy 2022) , another popular competition returned last week on BBC ,which is popular with some Eurovision fans too, the 2021 edition of Strictly Come […]
Eurovision celebrity, Sergey Lazarev has started his journey as a celebrity dancer in the famous competition Dancing With The Stars Russia, the equivalent of Strictly Come Dancing. According to the Russian media, the fan-favourite singer, missed the first show of Dancing With The Stars due to his flight […]
Lulu represented the United Kingdom at the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest, in Madrid, Spain. Lulu finished in joint 1st place, with a total of 18 points. You can watch a video of her performance below: In 2016, Judge Robert Rinder and Oksana Platero took to the ballroom floor, […]
Ireland’s Eurovision 2016 representative Nicky Byrne and Irish television presenter Amanda Byram will host the Irish version of the US celebrity dance contest “Dancing with the Stars”. In case you didn’t know, Nicky was a contestant on the UK’s version of the show “Strictly Come Dancing” back in 2012, […]
Sergey shows Europe what to expect at Eurovision! Sergey Lazarev took to live television on Russia’s version of ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ to show how big ‘You Are The Only One’ can get on a live stage Full of power this looks like the betting odds could be right and Russia […]
BBC chomping at the teeth to get Eurovision Winner Måns Zelmerlöw on British TV. Newspaper reports are suggesting that Eurovision winner Måns Zelmerlöw is being lined up by the BBC to be a celebrity on the station’s winter prime time tv show ‘Strictly Come Dancing’. Negotiations for next season’s show […]
Yesterday it was reported that the BBC would hold a massive search for their Eurovision 2016 entry and the internet almost broke – watch out Kim Kardashian we didn’t need to get naked with a bottle of champagne! So this morning the BBC released a formal statement of intent. […]