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Eurovision Winner To Take Drugs Test Following Cocaine Speculation
The lead singer of Italian rock band Måneskin says he will take a voluntary drug test.
The lead singer of the Italian rock band that won the Eurovision Song Contest has asked to take a drug test to refute speculation that he sniffed cocaine during the show.
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) said Måneskin lead singer Damiano David “will take a voluntary drug test after arriving home”.
It said the band “strongly refuted the allegations of drug use” that bubbled up on social media after David appeared to bend over a table during the contest.
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BACK in 2014, I remember half joking that one of the reasons I was voting for independence was so that Scotland could have its own entry in the Eurovision Song Contest. Now seven years later, it feels like less of a joke. This will be the second Eurovision in a row that the UK has come dead last – an embarrassment for Britain that’s only compounded by the fact that they finished this year not only at the bottom but also without a single point from either the judges or the international community. Everyone knows that the division of votes at Eurovision is as cut along political lines as it is performance – so it felt grimly satisfying to see the UK in such a position having spent the last few years throwing a tantrum in the aisles of global politics (sorry James Newman).