He may be known to viewers as the co-presenter giving out facts from his laptop on Pointless, but the BBC has announced Richard Osman as this year’s results spokesperson for the United Kingdom. He joins Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, San Marino and the Czech Republic among the list of confirmed spokespersons for Eurovision 2016.
Hello @richardosman London calling! Welcome our #Eurovision spokesman 2016 pic.twitter.com/bYsMJ1eshM
— BBC Eurovision (@bbceurovision) May 11, 2016
He follows in the footsteps of celebrity chef Nigella Lawson, who was the country’s results spokesperson last year. Whilst Nigella read out the combined jury-televoting results, Richard will only be reading out the jury results under the new voting process.
OMG I LOVE RICHARD OSMAN!!!
On a different topic, what’s happened to the pop up BBC radio station for Eurovision this year? I take it that listener figures were even lower than the Greatest Hits which was broadcast last year on BBC1?
Nigela did really good job last year
as uninteresting as this years UK entry
Another member of the BBC set who’ll try to be “funny”. Super.
For everyone saying “why pick him if nobody knows him?”: there are a lot of spokespersons this year that aren’t internationally well known, such as San Marino’s and Hungary’s. Should it really matter, anyway?
Wtf? Nigella Lawson was a big name internationally but then they choose this guy? on the brightside its not Scott Mills again
I was so hoping it would be Nigella again. She was the highlight of last year’s contest.
Who ? I live in uk now and don’t even know him ..
Where is icon nigella
Richard will bring a statistic none of us knew about, for sure. 🙂 Good choice. We might learn something.
“good evening, london calling. 12 points go to russia!”
… easiest job ever.
*Osman
Looking forward to his Swedish and French, although it’s sad Xander won’t be with him.