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Post by Admin on May 24, 2015 21:54:09 GMT
Sweden’s Måns Zelmerlöw was awarded the top prize in the long-running music competition on Saturday for his pop anthem “Heroes.” Russia’s Polina Gagarina claimed second place with “A Million Voices,” and Italy’s Il Volo followed in third with “Grande Amore.” “I’m so happy and I want to say thank you for voting for me,” Zelmerlöw told the crowd (via BBC). “I want to say we are all ‘Heroes,’ no matter who we love, who we are or what we believe in – we are all heroes.”  Zelmerlöw was favored to win Eurovision, but he was still seemingly pretty surprised once his victory became official. Mans Zelmerlow performed "Heroes" in the Austrian capital after being the bookies' favourite for much of the run-up before going on to win an impressive 365 points.  The 28-year-old, best known for taking part in Idol 2005, cruised through Thursday's semi-final despite some controversy over anti-gay comments he apologised for last year.  |
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Post by Admin on May 29, 2015 21:42:24 GMT
The boos rolled in for Russia during the Eurovision Song Contest as the points were awarded to the country. When each country read out their choices for the scores, as soon as Russia was announced there was audible booing heard from the audience.  Russia was given several maximum points from fellow European countries and as the voting continued the boos began to get drowned out. The hosts kept trying to remind everyone that each act deserved to be awarded points enforcing the 'building bridges' theme. But when Conchita Wurst asked the audience to cheer for Russia over in the green room, nobody did. It was painful to hear the apparent fake cheers piped over the silent audience.  Despite this year's Russia entry Polina Gagarina not being booed when she appeared on stage at the semi-finals, he added: "It is the first time we have prepared in this way, we want to be ready in all scenarios [but] we have high expectations that nothing like this will happen."  |
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