Eurovision 2022: Semi Final ONE (20:00 BST)

[AGinAg (38)]

Didn't people think this was going to win at the time?

I expect even James Newman's 'My Large Breasts' would have done better

It would have easily been top 3.

 

[Kratz]

It would have easily been top 3.

To be fair, it was shaping up to be an awful year.

 

[Christian]

Huge vocal and rowsing climax. It would have cleaned up much to my chagrin.

 

[Soldi]

Diodato <3

 

[ButterTart]

What is Rylan attempting to wear please

 

[FetchFugly]

Scott Mills trying to claim the credit for Sam Ryder.

 

[lolly]

What is Rylan attempting to wear please

I think someone like Olly Alexander could pull it off, as much as I don't understand it

 

[RS]

Diodato <3

Apparently a cousin to Benjamin Ingrosso (according to our commentator)

 

[dmlaw]

What is Rylan attempting to wear please

Also, why are they reporting from a municipal leisure centre.

 

[Kratz]

Bloody hell there is nobody in there unless they have all gone for a beer

 

[Ellie]

That was nowhere near as good as Iceland 2020

 

[straightorbroken]

We are 4th favourites? Not with that Crystal Maze staging we are not.

 

[ButterTart]

Really though, Sam looks like a different league to everything tonight.

 

[Kratz]

We are 4th favourites? Not with that Crystal Maze staging we are not.

3rd at time of typing...

 

[Beverley]

Bloody hell there is nobody in there unless they have all gone for a beer

It’s quite full!

 

[lolly]

There's a little too much fuchsia going on this evening

 

[straightorbroken]

She's not very confident is she?

 

[dmlaw]

Why has someone jammed a load of pine cones into that child’s head?

 

[Christian]

Italian Russell Tovey doing his best to breathe some life into this.

 

[lolly]

It’s quite full!

The upper tier looks about 20% full from the angles we're seeing

 

[Kratz]

Malena - at last a proper star

 

[GNL]

I do worry that Spaceman man's slightly annoying facial expressions will be our undoing.

 

[win_the_game]

It’s quite full!

We're getting shots of Scott Mils and Rylan in an arena with three people waving Ukrainian flags.

 

[Christian]

They should ban all mention of the Junior Song Contest. And no American stuff either.

 

[COB]

The Diodato performance was such a MOMENT in the arena, the sun actually moving!

 

[Kratz]

Well if that doesn't get them packed into Yerevan nothing will

 

[Lucille]

Are we being GROOMED?

 

[straightorbroken]

WARNING: left French guy is HOT!

 

[Ellie]

Well they’re full of personality

 

[win_the_game]

This French one looks a bit RAPEY in the EYES.

 

[GNL]

Armenian food IS very good, I will give her that.

 

[Lucille]

This French one looks a bit RAPEY in the EYES.

PERFECT.

 

[Christian]

The camerawork on this French entry

 

[straightorbroken]

The French Derry girl is not the icon she should be.

 

[ButterTart]

I fucking love France. I don’t understand how it isn’t in the mix to win.

 

[Ellie]

That COULD be good if they weren’t performing it.

 

[win_the_game]

The camerawork on this French entry

The camerawork on all the entries!

 

[RS]

This is so unlike the French

 

[GNL]

Are these France's version of Cornish separatists?

 

[ButterTart]

Oh I hate him