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After many weeks of speculation and rumour, the BBC has now confirmed one of the most badly kept secrets of the 2010 finals season. The United Kingdom will choose it’s singer on Friday March 12th.

Not much information about the selection procedure BBC will choose this year is available. We know that Pete Waterman will write the British entry, but more than that is just pure speculations. Now it appears like a date might be known though as Alexander Rybak has mentioned it in his calendar.

The BBC announced today that the highly successful record producer, Pete Waterman will produce the song that will represent the United Kingdom in Oslo.

Rumours have today surfaced suggesting that Gary Barlow has been approached by the BBC to write the United Kingdom’s entry for the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest.

It has been announced that Jade Ewen has joined the girl group, The Sugababes. The 2009 Eurovision Song Contest singer for the United Kingdom replaces Keisha Buchanan in the three girl line-up.

The BBC has revealed the votes of the public televote and the jury. The results show that the jury gave the top score to Germany’s swing number, while the public put Turkey at the top of the list.

The European Broadcasting Union has offically announced that the third Eurovision Dance Contest will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan this year. The contest will be held at the Haydar Aliyev Sports and Concerts Complex in September 2009.

Francine and Nicola, the twins from BBC’s Eurovision selection show, may not be as innocent and sweet as we may have first thought. In an interview with the Mirror they told of their X-factor experience, being arrested at a football match and their plans to live together forever, literally.

In the first of four live shows, Damien was the first of the six acts to be eliminated as the United Kingdom began in earnest the search for its Eurovision performer.