(13 Apr 2025)
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London – 13 April 2025
1. Logo of Eurovision 2025 on screen
2. Remember Monday, UK’s representatives at Eurovision 2025, being interviewed
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Remember Monday, UK’s representatives at Eurovision 2025, on how they feel about participating the contest:
Holly-Anne Hull: "This is Charlotte. She is one of the biggest Eurovision fans I know on planet Earth. And watching her live out her dream.. Now, me and Lauren are newly Eurovision fans. We’re huge Eurovision fans now that we’re a part of it. But Charlotte, this is everything to you, isn’t it?"
Charlotte Steele: "It’s so surreal. I think like if anyone at home watching is a massive fan, just picture yourself actually up doing every day, living every day through what you’ve watched for years. It’s just so surreal."
4. VÆB, Iceland’s representatives at Eurovision 2025, singing
5. SOUNDBITE (English) VÆB, Iceland’s representatives at Eurovision 2025, about their stage act:
"I’ll tell you there might be a boat, there may be a boat, and there might something we do in the boat. I don’t know, but we can’t tell anything, shh, secret. But we have lots of secrets and lots of mystery plans up our sleeves for the big day."
6. Gabry Ponte, San Marino’s representative at Eurovision 2025, being interviewed
7. Close of box said “Tutta L’Italia,” title of Ponte’s song
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Gabry Ponte, San Marino’s representatives at Eurovision 2025, on if he expected to participate the contest:
"Actually no, because I’m Italian. Only the winner of Sanremo Festival can go to Eurovision. These are the rules for Italy. And I’m a DJ, so I’m not very likely to win Sanremo. So, it was never an option, but something weird happened this year. I was actually a guest to the Sanremo festival with my — I premiered my song there. In the next days, a lot of people on social media were commenting, "Please bring this song to Eurovision. It screams for it. It’s perfect." And a few days later, the invitation from San Marino came in. They have a contest. The winner goes to Eurovision, and they invited me to participate to their contest. And I was like, whoa. It was like the stars aligning, so."
9. Ponte and Klemen, Slovenia’s representative at Eurovision 2025, hugging
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Klemen, Slovenia’s representative at Eurovision 2025, on participating Eurovision:
"When I hosted these shows, people started getting into my head, because I did a lot of singing while I was hosting. And I said, ‘Klemen, you should go to Eurovision one day.’ So I had that implanted to my brain. And this year, when I finished my album, my first album, when I’m taking all my masks off, because in the past, I used to do the impersonations of famous people, there was this one song which I think stood out, because it’s a personal story about my wife dealing with an incurable disease and beating the disease at the end and I thought like this is a song which carries a frequency of hope, the power of positive thinking, never giving up and also shows gratitude for people who are dear to us. And when seeing the reactions of people who first listened to the song my family and friends uh, there are tears, there are goose bumps, I kind of thought to myself that maybe I could go to Eurovision with a different song that I envisioned in the past because I never thought I’d go to Eurovision with a ballad with a song that’s sincere, raw and just straight from the heart."
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Miriana Conte, Malta’s representative at Eurovision 2025, on changing her lyrics:
12. KAJ, Sweden’s representative at Eurovision 2025, being interviewed
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