2008

Friðrik Ómar has previously participated both as a backing singer and as a featured artist for Iceland in several Eurovision Song Contests, making him a well known face and extremely popular with many fans. Not one to rest on his laurels, he has numerous projects currently in the pipeline.

Charlotte Perrelli, Sarah Dawn Finer and programme host Gabriell Forss were mere minutes away from tragedy prior to their appearance on the popular Swedish TV show, Allsång på Skansen.

The popular German girl band, No Angels, who represented Germany in 2008 and finished last with Disappear, loses another member. It was announced Nadja Benaissa has decided to leave the band.

Andy Abraham, who represented United Kingdom at the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest, will be cycling from London to Paris in September. He is doing this for charity and hopes to be able to raise £10,000.000 for The Childhood Eye Cancer Trust. Donations are already open and he would like your support as well.

Russian figure skater Evgeny Plushenko, who accompanied Dima Bilan on stage when he won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2008, won silver last night at the 2010 Winter Olympics held in Canada. He is however not at all satisfied and speculations already have started that he was deliberately robbed from the gold.

The third semi-final of Iceland’s Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins' was held last Saturday by its national public broadcaster RUV. Two acts claimed the last places available in the final.