2021 Eurovision Song Contest Måneskin have won the 65th Eurovision Song Contest for Italy. Their song Zitti E Buoni was the first victory for a band since 2006 and they faced stiff competition from the entries from Switzerland, France and Iceland The show took place in Rotterdam, in front of a limited capacity of 3,500 fans, and had all the thrills and spills you’d expect. Eurovision was back with a bang. The UK’s James Newman finished last, with zero points. It is the second time this has happened to the UK. As well as the 26 acts in the competition, there were appearances from former winners, including Finnish rock band Lordi, playing on top of rooftops in Rotterdam. Iceland had to appear remotely due to a case of Covid within the band. The hosts of the show included Nikkie de Jager, making history as the first openly transgender person to present the show in its history. Italy will now host the next 2022 Eurovision song contest. It is the third time they have been winners, and Rome and Naple have previously acted as host cities. I hope you have enjoyed the show and our live coverage. I thought it was a great Grand Final, with eight or nine songs that could easily have been deserving winners. That’s it from me, thank you so much for joining us. I’ve had so much fun, hope you have too. And now, as Destiny from Malta’s entry would say: Je me casse. Also, you lot below the line, over 3,000 comments! I hope you’ve had fun and you’ve enjoyed the live blog and hanging out together. I’ve had an absolute blast. What a night though. I genuinely genuinely think tonight had a lot of baggage to carry, but they put on a great show and it was a STRONG selection of songs. Holy moly, that was tense at the end. Do we think the best song won? It’s like a slightly angry Red Hot Chilli Peppers? Destiny looked crushed for Malta at the end there, and I thought Russia would do better. The French entry was great – and got douze points from the UK – but maybe was just a bit too dramatic? I knoew you’ve seen it on the telly already but here’s the first pic dropping on the wires of Maneskin celebrating. They just said they wanted to tell the whole of Europe and the whole of the world that “Rock’n’roll never dies”. Absolute scenes here. It’s lovely to see the joy. Not sure it is all Covid safe. But it has been brilliant to have a song contest again. FORZA ITALIA! etc etc. We are heading to Rome! Or maybe Milan. They’ve held it in Naples before. Italy win Eurovision It is metal-mania at Eurovision again You know my theory, they interviewed France, they interviewed Switzerland… France get 251 points, can’t overtake Italy. I’ve got draft posts for all the different winners but it is late and I am confused. Send help. Malta robbed here, it was much better than 47 points. Iceland get a darts score. It won’t be enough. Then there’s 380 points for Italy. Is that enough? Is that enough? 100 points from the public for Russia, I thought they would do better. They’ll settle in the top ten. The public give Portugal 27 points and it is more than I think they deserved.