After months and months of build up and anticipation, just like that Eurovision 2023 is over โ but what a vintage year it was.
Held in Liverpool on behalf of Ukraine, the UK put on one hell of a show as Europe was โunited by musicโ for the 67th annual Song Contest.
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But if you missed it, or maybe just canโt get enough Eurovision action, these were the ridiculous, brilliant and unexpected moments that made it one to remember...
Kate Middleton served up the first surprise of the night in the opening moments when she was seen in 2022 winners Kalush Orchestraโs return performance...
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Andrew Lloyd Webber and Joss Stone were there too...
Other opening moments were giving people flashbacks...
Many fans were thrown to see Graham Norton on the stage, rather than in the commentary boxโฆ
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His co-commentator Mel Giedroyc also went down a storm with fansโฆ
And one of Grahamโs Eurovision co-hosts Hannah Waddingham doing the French bits of commentary was giving people life...
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Austriaโs ode to 19th century author Edgar Allan Poe was quite the start to the competitionโฆ
It also had pretty important message...
Polish representative Blanka was putting people in mind of a certain Love Island contestantโฆ
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How they got Franceโs act on stage in the arena was actually pretty mind blowing...
Cyprusโ act had people feeling a little hot under the collar...
2012 winner Loreen returned to represent Sweden again, and people were so glad to see her backโฆ
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The Finnish act Kรครคrijรค gave us a Cha Cha Cha weโve certainly never seen on Strictly beforeโฆ
Belgiumโs act served absolute ballroom realness...
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Mel Giedroyc recreated *that* iconic butter churning moment from Polandโs 2014 entry, and we canโt stop howling...
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But things took an even stranger turn with Croatian act Let 3โฆ
Mae Muller did the UK proud with her performanceโฆ
At the interval, it was joyous to have Sam Ryder back on the Eurovision stage after repping the UK so well last yearโฆ
And the Liverpool jukebox performance wasโฆ unexpectedly brilliant, and featured a host of Eurovision legends...
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Especially Daรฐi Freyr doing Atomic Kittenโs Whole Again...
The Song Contestโs adjudicator Martin รsterdahl had lots of people swooningโฆ
Catherine Tate reading out the UK jury vote was as camp as we hoped it would beโฆ
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