Italy won this year's Eurovision.
The competition, which was held in Rotterdam, Netherlands, after the show was cancelled in 2020, was won by Italy with rock band Maneskin’s Zitti E Buoni.
They are the first group to win the competition since 2006.
🇮🇹 Congratulations to Italy! Måneskin win the #Eurovision Song Contest with their incredible song - Zitti E Buoni🏆 @eurovision pic.twitter.com/hIU8UQ3YQI
— BBC Eurovision🇬🇧 (@bbceurovision) May 22, 2021
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The UK’s James Newman scored zero points from the jury vote and from the public vote, the only entry to do so.
BBC Breakfast host Dan Walker wrote: “Wowsers #NilPoints
“Well done James Newman for laughing it off.
Wowsers 😬 #NilPoints
Well done James Newman for laughing it off.
Only way to respond to a spectacular Europe-wide boot in the bits.#Eurovision— Dan Walker (@mrdanwalker) May 22, 2021
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“Only way to respond to a spectacular Europe-wide boot in the bits.”
Singer Tom Grennan wrote: “JAMES NEWMAN IS A TOP LAD.”
JAMES NEWMAN IS A TOP LAD #Eurovision
— Tom Grennan (@Tom_Grennan) May 22, 2021
Drag Race star Michelle Visage said: “I am sending this tweet to James Newman and James only. You were INCREDIBLE.”
On stage after the band’s victory, Maneskin frontman Damiano David shouted into the microphone: “We just wanted to say to the whole of Europe, to the whole world, rock and roll never dies.”
