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Remember Monday in crushing Eurovision defeat as final position revealed after 2025 winner announced
The trio racked up a number of points from the juries
THE UK has once again suffered a crushing defeat in the Eurovision Song Contest.
Girl group Remember Monday came in 19th place after performing What The Hell Just Happened? - landing zero points from the public.
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The competition was won by Austria's JJ after 26 acts battled it out on stage in Basel, Switzerland.
Friends Lauren Byrne, Holly-Anne Hull and Charlotte Steele were the first girl group act from the UK to perform since 1999.
They scored 88 in the jury vote, but were given nothing in the public vote.
They received 12 points, the highest amount a country can award a contestant, from Italy, which saw its results announced by a puppet mouse.
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Last year's UK entry - Olly Alexander - finished in 18th place with 46 points for his song Dizzy.
JJ's win was Austria's first victory since bearded drag queen Conchita Wurst won in 2014.
Operatic singer JJ came just ahead of Israeli singer Yuval Raphael in the world's biggest music competition which was watched by more than 160 million people across the world.
The singer, real name Johannes Pietsch, opted for a black and white staging as he performed emotional song Wasted Love, which looked like a disastrous boat trip as he sang about someone he cared about being overwhelmed.
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Vienna-born JJ is an Austrian-Filipino opera singer and has been studying at the Music and Art Private University of Vienna (MUK).
The win was Austria's third in the competition, following Conchita's success in 2014 and Udo Juergens' victory in 1966
During tonight’s competition Israeli singer Yuval an October 7 survivor, sing the heartfelt New Day Will Rise.
BBC Eurovision Song Contest commentator Graham Norton said there was a "mixed response" in the arena to Raphael, 24, who he said attracted cheers and boos.
Swiss broadcaster SRG SSR said her act also saw a crew member hit with paint, after two people tried to rush on stage through the barrier after Raphael's performance.
"They were stopped," a spokesman said. "One of the two agitators threw paint and a crew member was hit.
Eurovision fans ask ‘what the hell just happened’ as they compare UK’s Remember Monday to pound shop Disney princesses
"The crew member is fine and nobody was injured. The man and the woman were taken out of the venue and handed over to the police."
A spokesman for Basel police said: "The organiser handed the two people over to the police. The police checked the two people and then released them. It is now up to the organiser to decide whether to press charges."
The winner was determined by viewer votes in the participating 26 countries and juries made up of the music industry.
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The rest of the world also had a poll, which counted the same as a country, and the verdict of TV viewers were added to the combination of points from national juries.
The UK's national jury votes were announced by singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor after Doctor Who actor Ncuti Gatwa pulled out of being the British Eurovision spokesperson due to "unforeseen circumstances".
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Eurovsion Song Contest results 2025
- Austria, JJ - 436
- Israel, Yuval Raphael - 357
- Estonia, Tommy Cash - 356
- Sweden, KAJ - 321
- Italy, Lucio Corsi - 256
- Greece, Klavdia - 231
- France, Louane - 230
- Albania, Shkodra Elektronike - 218
- Ukraine, Ziferblat - 218
- Switzerland, Zoë Më - 214
- Finland, Erika Vikman - 196
- Netherlands, Claude - 175
- Latvia, Tautumeitas - 158
- Poland, Justyna Steczkowska - 156
- Germany, Abor & Tynna - 151
- Lithuania, Katarsis - 96
- Malta, Miriana Conte - 91
- Norway, Kyle Alessandro - 89
- United Kingdom, Remember Monday - 88
- Armenia, PARG - 72
- Portugal, NAPA - 50
- Luxembourg, Laura Thorn - 47
- Denmark, Sissal - 47
- Spain, Melody - 37
- Iceland, VÆB - 33
- San Marino, Gabry Ponte - 27
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