Eurovision 2023 Liverpool: Semi Final 2

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BBC1 8pm Thursday

10 to qualify. 6 to bin.

1 Denmark
2 Armenia
3 Romania
4 Estonia
5 Belgium
6 Cyprus
7 Iceland
8 Greece
9 Poland
10 Slovenia
11 Georgia
12 San Marino
13 Austria
14 Albania
15 Lithuania
16 Australia

Top picks to look for: Austria (though rehearsal looked underwhelming) and Australia (very heavy on the props!)

There's a few more typical Eurovision songs in there than semi one. This semi is more your guilty Eurovision pleasure than your Eurovision winner.

The Ukrainian entry, UK entry and Spanish entry also get a preview. The Ukrainian one is surprisingly good - when I first saw it I thought it was awful but it's really grown on me and the staging looks good.

Greece looked like he'd come as Steve Irwin (RIP).

Polish Brittney?

This one’s a nepo baby apparently.

Every single person tonight has lied about their age. This woman is clearly 42.

She looks better from a distance...

Is Rylan sucking on a sweetie?

Good Euro song

Backing dancers. Not lying on the floor. Upbeat. Surely going through.

Ooh this one was catchy on spotify.

Scooch probably offered him something to suck on.

This has been one of the better performances TBF

There’s a lot of unnecessary dancing tonight!

Costume change!

Yes, this lot get points purely for remaining upright.

It's quite catchy though.

Dua lipa vibe here
More nice hair

This is annoying AF

Oh behaaave!

Poland definitely so much more upbeat !

Yeah, a lot of the non-qualifiers from the first semi were robbed...

More pink trousers.

Another bloke in pink. It’s a theme this year.

They've got Liam Payne

🍬

This is a cheese fest

His shirt is very mick jagger