Sheffield makes latest bid to host Eurovision 2023

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.

The seven cities shortlisted to possibly host the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in the UK have been revealed.

Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Sheffield have been unveiled as the seven shortlisted UK cities to battle it out to host next year’s Eurovision Song Contest.

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Nottingham will not be in the mix to host Eurovision 2023, the leader of the city’s council has confirmed.  Last month the BBC confirmed the UK would be taking charge of next year’s contest after it was previously announced winners Ukraine had been ruled out amid the ongoing Russian invasion. A number of cities are thought to be eyeing up a bid to be chosen as host, with locations such as Manchester, Brighton, Sheffield and Birmingham in the mix.

BBC Radio 2 will announced the UK cities shortlisted to host Eurovision 2023 during its breakfast show on Friday morning. Several cities up and down the country are all set to take part in a competitive bidding process including Glasgow, Manchester, Sheffield and London.

AJ Odudu has thrown her hat in the ring as a possible presenter for Eurovision 2023, which is set to be hosted in the UK on behalf of Ukraine. Earlier this week, the BBC confirmed it would be taking charge of next year’s contest after it was announced winners Ukraine had been ruled out amid the ongoing Russian invasion.

the honour falls to the UK and we have the opportunity to celebrate Sam Ryder coming second in this year’s event. The Eurovision host city will be decided in the coming months with London, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool and Sheffield joining Leeds in campaigning to be the competition’s venue. In order to be chosen to hold the competition, cities must demonstrate that they have a 10,000-seater venue and are located within close proximity to an international airport.

Eurovision 2023 will be hosted in the UK - and we want to know where you think it should be staged.

The UK is set to host the Eurovision Song Contest next year on behalf of Ukraine, the BBC has confirmed, and according the bookies, Glasgow is the favourite city to host the competition.

Sam Ryder said on an Instagram video addressing fans in Ukraine, "It’s Ukraine’s party, we’re just inviting them to throw it at our house. " Twitter users have started to speculate and put forward which UK presenters they hope will host the much-anticipated song contest alongside some Ukrainian presenters. Some familiar names are cropping up a lot on social media, such as This Morning's cheery host Alison Hammond, or the hilarious Graham Norton, who has been doing the UK commentary for over a decade.

Lulu has called for her home city of Glasgow to host the Eurovision Song Contest 2023.The Scottish singer represented the UK at the 1969 edition of the annual competition with her track ‘Boom Bang-a-Bang’, and was voted one of four joint winners that year.Speaking on last night’s episode of Newsnight (via BBC News), Lulu said Eurovision 2023 should be held in Glasgow after it was confirmed that the UK will hold the contest on behalf of this year’s winners, Ukraine.“It has to be Glasgow because that’s where I come from,” she told the BBC Two programme yesterday (July 25).“They’re so politically savvy, they’re the most fabulous hosts, they absolutely are music mad. I think it would be just the most fabulous thing, and I would be there.

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The UK will host next year’s Eurovision Song Contest, it has been confirmed. That was already very much expected, of course, after organiser the European Broadcasting Union concluded that it was not practical or safe to stage their 2023 event in Ukraine, despite it winning the 2022 Contest, because of the ongoing war in the country following Russia’s invasion earlier this year.With the UK in second place back in May, it was always likely that Eurovision 2023 would happen here, despite Ukrainian broadcaster UA:PBC – and politicians in the country – being keen to find a way to make the event happen somewhere in Ukraine.

Naman Ramachandran Some 16 cities across the U.K. have thrown their hat in the ring to host the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, which can’t be held in Ukraine due to security concerns.After weeks of discussions, it was revealed on Monday that the U.K.