Glasgow 'backed off the boards' after being shortlisted to host Eurovision 2023

Eurovision 2023.This follows their success with last year’s entrant Sam Ryder, who finished in second place, scoring an impressive 466 points overall with his song ‘Space Man’.Ryder was personally chosen by the management firm and gave the United Kingdom its best Eurovision result since 1998.

Lea Michele broke down in tears after being cast as Fanny Brice in 'Funny Girl'. The former ‘Glee’ star was getting brunch with her two-year-old son Ever when she learned that she'd been cast in the Broadway production. The 36-year-old actress told PEOPLE: “Funny story, I got the call from my agents that I got the part.

Megan Thee Stallion has shared the video for "Ungrateful," a Key Glock collaboration taken from new album Traumazine. The video begins with Megan getting ready for a funeral before attending the event in all-black attire.

Tributes have been paid from across the political spectrum to former Glasgow Labour leader and councillor Malcolm Cunning who has died, aged 65. News of his death was announced by Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar on Sunday.

Beardy Beardy has been located in the heart of Glasgow city centre for over three years now. In that time the team has grown to include several finalists and some winners in some of the most prestigious industry awards across various categories.

Susanna Reid has led the tributes to her former BBC Breakfast colleague Bill Turnbull, who died on Wednesday (August 31) at the age of 66. The TV presenter and journalist died “peacefully” at home in Suffolk after a “challenging and committed fight against prostate cancer” which had been diagnosed in November 2017, his family said.

Arizona Republic, the “Everybody Hates Chris” alum told the crowd that going back to the Oscars would be like asking Nicole Brown Simpson “to go back to the restaurant” where she left her eyeglasses before she killed, in a reference to the murder trial of O.J. Simpson, who was acquitted in the case. His rejected hosting duties would’ve come a year after Will Smith, 53, walked on stage on March 27 and slapped him at the Academy Awards for making a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, about looking like “G.I.

It's no big secret that Glasgow is the bookies favourite to host the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023 after this year's winner, Ukraine, pulled out because of the ongoing war there.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has backed a new multi-million pound fund to help over 750 West Lothian families during the cost of living crisis - despite facing criticism for scrapping free school meals for all P6 and P7 pupils this summer.

Police have released CCTV images of a man they believe could be linked to an assault that happened in Glasgow earlier this year.

A 50-year-old man was rushed to hospital with serious injuries after an unprovoked attack on a footbridge in Paisley.

A pedestrian is fighting for his life after being hit by a bus in Glasgow city centre yesterday. The 40-year-old man was struck by the bus on Midland Street, at its junction with Jamaica Street, at around 1.45 pm on Saturday.

A man has been rushed to hospital after being hit by a bus in Glasgow this afternoon.

Police have released CCTV images of four men they are hunting in relation to an attack in Glasgow.

A frantic search has been launched to trace a missing schoolboy who was last seen boarding a bus to Glasgow City Centre.

A plane heading for Glasgow has performed a mid-air U-turn after transmitting an emergency signal shortly after departing.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentA leading light of Latin America’s new generation of female cineastes – think Michelle Garza Cervera, Valentina Mourel – “To Kill the Beast” director Agustina San Martín is teaming with Buenos Aires-based Vega Cine and Cordoba Argentina’s  Gualicho Cine for a new feature, “Todo el Mundo.”Selected for San Sebastian’s 2022 Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum in September, “Todo el Mundo” unspools in a world not so distant from “To Kill the Beast” (“Matar a la Bestia”) or the sensibilities of San Martín. A ’90s-set coming-of-age tale, it turns on the burgeoning relationship between Serena, 15, whose face is deformed after an accident, and Enzo, 17, a “dark” goth boy attracted by Serena’s scar.  Serena begins to skip school, get home late and lie her mother. Her high-school friendships aren’t what they were before.

The final seven Eurovision Song Contest locations in the UK have been revealed. The contest's executive supervisor Martin Osterdahl joined Scott Mills and Zoe Ball on BBC Radio 2 on Friday morning (August 12) to announce the shortlist for the 2023 event.

Eurovision Song Contest 2023 has been announced – check it out below.The UK’s entry Sam Ryder came in at second place to Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra in this year’s competition, scoring an impressive 466 points overall with his song ‘Space Man’.It was subsequently confirmed that the BBC would host next year’s event in the United Kingdom on behalf of Ukraine due to the ongoing war in the latter country.