Eurovision host makes hilarious joke about contest’s homosexual followers

Eurovision Music Contest co-host Petra Mede is aware of precisely what you might be: throughout final night time’s semi-final (9 Might), she joked that every one Eurovision superfans are homosexual. 

At this level, it’s a universally acknowledged indisputable fact that the Eurovision Music Contest is likely one of the gayest occasions of the yr. But the 2024 contest is arguably embracing that truth greater than every other yr.

For starters, there’s the slew of LGBTQ+ entrants on this yr’s contest, together with Eire’s non-binary witch Bambie Thug, the UK’s Olly Alexander, and Lithuania’s Silvester Belt.

Then there’s the campy antics of the co-hosts: within the first semi-final earlier this week (7 Might), co-host Petra Mede grabbed an viewers member’s cellphone, just for the cellphone to constantly bleep with the sound of the Grindr notification.

Whereas the second was evidently a deliberate skit, it was a cheeky nod to the massive proportion of homosexual males watching at residence.

Final night time, throughout the second semi-final (9 Might) in Malmö, Mede continued her dedication to making sure Eurovision’s homosexual followers really feel seen.

She paid tribute to the late Jahn Teigen, who represented Norway on the contest 3 times earlier than his dying in 2020; the primary time, in 1978, he obtained nil factors.

A montage of different songs that obtained nil factors then performed, with Mede planting her tongue firmly in her cheek as she referenced those that may need heard of all of the songs earlier than.

“Right here’s a tribute to a number of the magical songs that have been too simply dismissed,” she stated. “And should you at residence can sing alongside to all these songs, then you realize you’re a real homose… sorry, Eurovision fan.”