Just delay the ROW votes a bit.
What a shitshow this year!
It would have saved them a lot of trouble to just exclude Israel from the start
Jan Böhmermann and Olli Schulz (Comedians who commentate for Austrian broadcaster ORF) are claiming that Estonia, Switzerland and Ireland don't want to perform in the Eurovision Final. According to them, France only wants to perform if they are able to make a statement:
Bear in mind, Jan is known for pranking the public, so take these statements with a grain of salt.
Well, if true that's all the artists I was interested in (and I'd fully support it)
Bambi Thug should repaint her body painting words that the EBU asked her to remove in protest. The final is live, right? What are they going to do? Strip her?
They could instantly disqualify them and forbid them from entering the stage. Or shut off the performance immediately if the words weren't detected before entering. Then they would issue a fine.
IIRC in 2003 t.A.T.u. was threatened that the live coverage would be replaced with a recording of the rehearsal if they changed up anything during their performance and kissed on stage (gasp the horror). I would assume they're ready to do something similar today just to stop anyone speaking up in favor of Palestine, in favor of Joost or critical towards Israel from being broadcast.
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