The Eurovision Song Contest is Europe’s favourite TV show and for its sixtieth anniversary edition, stars from contests past from across the continent tuned in to watch the show.
France 2012 Eurovision act Anggun had sass for days on her live tweet commentary, giving this particularly brutal read to the UK’S Electro Velvet:
Non. #GBR
— Anggun Official (@Anggun_Cipta) May 23, 2015
Anggun’s favourite from the class of Eurovision 2015 were Italy, Latvia, Belgium and of course the eventual winner Måns Zelmerlöw:
On aime BEAUCOUP la Suède ?? #swe — Anggun Official (@Anggun_Cipta) May 23, 2015
Swedish stars turned out in force to support Måns with Sarah Dawn Finer, Eurovision 2011 act Eric Saade and Eurovision 2009 act Malena Ernman showing their pride for Sweden’s hero amongst others:
Swwwwweeeedddeeen! Lets Go!!! #eurovision
— Sarah Dawn Finer (@sdfiner) May 23, 2015
Big up to my friend Måns tonight at ESC. You deserve the victory tonight. #ESC — Eric Saade (@ericsaademusic) May 23, 2015
Det är klart nu!!! Måns vinner #ESC2015
— Malena Ernman (@Malena_Ernman) May 23, 2015
Sweden’s highest scoring act in history Loreen sent her praises to Måns through her Facebook page:
CONGRATULATIONS fis Månsan :)You ruled, you rocked and you’re soo worth it. proud!!! ! 🙂 You stand for what is right! #wearetheheroesofourtime ?? love you Gemini
Posted by Loreen on Saturday, 23 May 2015
While Norway’s 2013 act Margaret Berger shared a sweet congrats message through her Twitter:
Sooo congratulations Sweden ?????? https://t.co/HdGU5rObAI
— Margaret Berger (@MargaretBerger) May 24, 2015
The Swedish hero wasn’t the only act receiving support though. Germany Elaiza sent luck to ill-fated Ann Sophie who rounded the act after all 40 votes with nil points for the first time since 2003.
Bald geht’s los! Eurovision Song Contest – Building Bridges! Wir drücken Ann Sophie ganz fest die Daumen für heut Abend!…
Posted by Elaiza on Saturday, 23 May 2015
Spain’s 2014 act Ruth Lorenzo was sending all the love to Edurne and ‘Amanecer’ and also spared little love for Lativa’s Aminata Savadogo:
No words!!!! Pure Magic #LAT #eurovision
— Ruth Lorenzo (@RuthLorenzo1) May 23, 2015
Que amanezca en Viena con nuestra @Edurnity aguantando el aliento por ti! — Ruth Lorenzo (@RuthLorenzo1) May 23, 2015
She wasn’t the only Spanish star sending Edurne their love, with Rosa Lopez and Pastora Soler among those caught cheering Edurne on in an Instagram video shared through Lorenzo’s account.
Greece’s 2005 winner and 2015 spokesperson Helena Paparizou also showed her support for Maria-Elena Kyriakou on Twitter:
???? ???????? ??????! ????? ?? ???? ?? ???? ???? #eurovision #eurovisiongr #GRE pic.twitter.com/tG6lcdEwMM
— Helena Paparizou (@paparizouhelena) May 23, 2015
Russia’s 2008 winner Dima Bilan shared this post backing Polina Gagarina, who passed his record for the most points scored by any Russian entry in the history of the contest:
This is the third time I’ve seen someone write Lativa instead of Latvia on this website..
Damn, poor Edurne….not even in the Top 10. I guess it was the lack of promotion because she only focused on promoting Amancer in Spain 🙁
@Erin – Based on his songs and his speaking, I think that is genuinely his English. Still, it is better than Polina’s and Peter Nalitch’s!
@mad-professor you’re right, no love for British songs but it’s because they are boring. We are great are writing ordinary subtle MOR songs that just dont always suit the big epic performance styles that are popular in the contest, The UK is out of touch with Eurovision. Different isn’t always better and putting a kids song on stage with a plastic production was never going to cut it. It’s fun, and I’m sure entertained millions last night (it certainly entertained me) but it was never going to do well in terms of points. It just jarred with everything else.
After just only 3 years our Vision will return again back home to the Gay Visionary Neverland SWEDEN! <3 😀
Well you could really claim that Sweden is the gay home of EuroVision! <3 🙂
The Swedes really love to death EuroVision & Sweden is the ultimate perfect euphoric place to host ESC there…! <3
Really paradise heaven oasis on earth 4 us gays ! <3 🙂
Last night proved that the UK really does stand no chance at Eurovision; the UK sending something different and new comes 24th, Germany sending a modern British song comes dead last.
Congratulations to our HERO Mans Zemerlow & Sweden 4 winning last night our Vision! <3 😀
Now Sweden has 6 victories in the Vision and is 2nd only behind Ireland with 7 victories! 🙂
–Congratulations as well to Ireland that voted YES to legalize gay marriages! <3 😀
We had 2 victories yesterday! 😀
We are going **Stockholm 2016** in Friends Arena next year! <3 😀
Polina GayGayrina gathering the huge amount of 303 points when the winner Dima Bilan gathered 272 points in 2008..
Il Volo of Italy gathering 292 points & surprisingly with this huge amount of points finishing 3rd!!
The 2nd runner up Farid gathering 234 points in Malmo’s Vision when the winners Eldar & Nigar received only 221 points..
Sakis Rouvas gathering 252 points finishing 3rd in 2004 when our winner Helena Paparizou received 230 points only in Vision of 2005..
Did Dima Bilan just ‘google translate’ or is this what we call ‘Lazy English’ in Russian?