SWITZERLAND were crowned the winners of the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest in a surprising result.
Despite backing from the bookies, Baby Lasagna was pipped to the post at the last minute by Nemo with his track ‘The Code’.
He couldn’t help but make a somewhat pointed speech as he accepted the glass trophy from Loreen amid the conflict in Israel and Gaza.
Nemo said: “Thank you so much, I hope this contest can live up to its promise and continue to stand for peace and dignity for every person in this world.”
In the end, the UK representative Olly Alexander was placed on the right hand side of the leaderboard.
He received a respectable 46 points from the all the jury votes, which included eight points from Iceland.
But in a brutal move – and to much boo’s from the arena audience – the Years & Years frontman received ‘nil points’ from the telephone voting,
Just after he came off the stage, UK fans were left furious after they claimed Olly Alexander was ‘sabotaged’.
He took to the stage to perform his single Dizzy with raunchy backing dancers who were shirtless throughout the performance.
But viewers noticed that the sound quality might not have been up to scratch, and at one point, Olly was seen touching his earpiece.
Meanwhile, Israel’s Eden Golan had a surprising night as she received one of the biggest shares of the audience vote.
The juries awarded her 52 points, but the audience at home gave a whopping 323 points.
At one point before the final results were announced, Israel they were put the top of the leader-board as they even received more audience votes than the winners Switzerland.
Earlier in the night she took to the stage with a thunderous reaction from the arena after significant protests in Malmö.
Ahead of tonight’s explosive show, organisers confirmed that the Netherlands’ act Joost Klein would not compete amid a police investigation into the star.
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