Eurovision 2021: Reigning champion Duncan Laurence tests positive for Covid
He will no longer be performing at Saturday s final
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Reigning Eurovision Song Contest champion Duncan Laurence has tested positive for coronavirus and will no longer perform during Saturday’s grand final.
The EBU releases a statement regarding Duncan Laurence s COVID 19 test esctoday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from esctoday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Blas Canto
Once dismissed as kitsch, the singing competition which wraps up in Rotterdam on Saturday is raising its profile amid ratings drop-offs for U.S. awards shows.
LONDON For years television viewers in the United States and United Kingdom have dismissed the Eurovision song contest as a kitsch joke that was better known for earnest power ballads, extravagant costumes and contestants receiving
nul points (no points), than a potential road to international stardom.
But lately the song contest most famous for introducing ABBA to the world in 1974 has started to become more attractive to major record labels. That’s in no small part thanks to the decline of viewership of the Grammys and the MTV Video Music Awards, the massive audience of 180 million viewers that Eurovision commands and last year’s hit movie starring