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This man is ridiculous. How is he real? Not only is he a beautiful man, he seems too kind, sweet and pleasant, he doesn't seem real. I think a lot of people fell in love with him this year. Except the televoters did not vote which is just so unfair. Bella is one of this year's most beautiful songs of this year's contest and Aidan promoted it everywhere. He came to Melbourne damn it - we all should have given him more points. And in this way, I feel we let him down. He deserved better.

The Estonian entry brought back the three of the four ladies who represented Switzerland in 2005. The Vanilla Ninja ladies have mellowed, and they still like to rock out, but in a much quieter way.

In case you have no heard, a liberal politician Sarah Henderson (that idiot on the right of the picture) asked SBS Australia why there were no votes given to Israel in the jury and televotes and if SBS had rigged the votes.

There are many issues I have with this. The biggest one is in her former life, Sarah was a respected journalist and presenter. So I guess she would be able to do research before appearing like a buffoon to accuse the national broadcaster of corruption.

I didn't expect much from this Cypriot song. I couldn't figure out what they would do to bring the joy of the film clip to the stage of Eurovision. I thought it was also on the cusp of non qualifying, and somehow they pulled that off (lets not go there). The answer was a big table and somewhat decent dancers.

The dancing on the table was inspired. It fits perfectly with the party theme of the song. The issue is once you are there you are restricted to where you can go. She did get off it in the end. Antigoni did her part dancing and singing and looking appropriately happy/seductive/sexy as the mood called at the time. The outfit was a choice, but it suited the song, and backing ladies had variations of the same thing, but varied so they weren't matching completely. There was a heap of choreography both on and off the table. The dancers were up, down, under and all round dancing their hearts out. They looked very identical in the face and very different from Antigoni which made her stand out.

I was worried about this after seeing it in the national final. They looked nervous and uncomfortable on stage and it made me ill at ease. This was not that at all. It was never going to qualify, but they presented their entry in classical way that they should be proud of. I must say that they could have read me the newspaper in Portuguese and I think I would like that too.

They did a clever thing beginning on the catwalk and for the majority of the song they stayed there. They used the stage to their advantage and made the performance feel more personalised especially when the camera was walking through them and they sang down the camera. There was a relaxed feel and the men were relaxed onstage in garment and in attitude. They moved around without being captured because of clever camerawork and diversions, and the entire performance was seamless. The girl on fiddle was a highlight even though she was pretending.

The Montenegrin entry was an example of a country with a costume budged, but not a prop budget. Finely dressed ladies with a lot of choreography and a pretty bare stage. They needed to qualify and I wanted this to qualify, but it was not to be. I have some problems.

I think there are many people who like Eva Marija. She would potentially be the Miss Congeniality of this year's song contest. She seem constantly in a good mood, always smiling and generally happy. So it broke my heart when she front the cameras ready to burst into tears and apologising for not making the final.

The team from Luxembourg did a decent job of using effects to highlight the song with butterflies, flowers bird and gusts of wind surrounding Eva through the song. For a one person performance, it made the performance feel full. Eva has a folksy kind of way of singing which worked. It made it feel carefree and light. She missed a few notes, and if i was asked to do steps and sing at this calibre, I couldn't do it. But then I am not competing at the song contest.

Sweden did not deserve the score they got at the end of the final. The juries did the heavy lifting with the majority of the score and televoters snubbed the song with 17 and 16 points in the semi final and the final respectively. I was incredibly surprised because the song is great. I listen to it in the car and sing along. I genuinely thought this would be top 10 and 12th at worst.

The Swedes must be panicking, and will do all manner of changes to their Melodifestivalen show to curb what they would consider a disaster. But there are two things to consider: firstly, the 19 entries that placed above it compared to this song. The other is that this kind of result has been happening to other countries with good songs and poor scores for a very long time. Look at Norway's 2024 song as an example; good song - bad score.