Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

  Ezmi - Paratiisi Räppänä - Neonvalot Frans Harju - Kiitos Samir Kallio - Moka 

Ingá-Máret Gaup-Juuso has revealed she was offered a song for Eurovison song contest 2015. Hold your colours could have been sent to either Norway, Sweden or Finland and it's written by Ylva & Linda Persson. It ended up in #umk15 sung by Solju. "I didn't feel it was joik enough, I don't think myself as a pop singer. I can sing but I do joik. I'm very delighted to hear the song, it turned out very well. I couldn't have done it better!" she says.  Ingá-Máret isn't just any random joiker. She performed to the king of Sweden last summer with Loreen, and has performed also for the king of Norway and various festivals in Finland. She hopes to get funding to record a joik album. Maybe she could get help from Andte, Finland's Big Brother winner and her brother? 

Lee Ryan has entered the Celebrity Big Brother house in UK and is already been nominated for the first eviction so he might come out very quickly, too. He may want to stay longer as while he's been in his activities the night before entering the house have leaked all over the internet, a fact he might yet be unaware of! It seems the combination of Skype + horny has another victim and a video and photos of Lee having some quality time alone with his little brother in front of his laptop are all over the place ( here for example). Was he simply thinking I can. I will !?

London calling Krista Siegfrids! She will be the guest star in the UK's Big Brother on Sunday July 7, 2013. She will perform Marry me in her wedding dress. Big Brother UK is already on it's 14th season and still very popular with an average viewers around 2 million per episode.  Eurovision has done good for her career also otherwise. In August she will be also starring in Stockholm Pride, and she will also visit popular kids and youth show Sommarlov. In Finland she will be on TV-screen weekly with The Voice Kids, where she is one of the coaches. But before all that she will be headlining the Helsinki Pride this Saturday in Helsinki.

Fans of reality show and Eurovision have a lot to watch this fall season in TV. The Big Brother kicks off tonight and while there are no Eurovision stars as housemates (as far as we know) the presenter of the Big Brother Extra show every early evening and co-host of the main weekly show is none other than Cristal Snow! Remember Can't save me from Euroviisut 2008? And in this season's Dances with stars we have Princess of the republic,  vision in pink Krisse Salminen who charmed the world in Eurovision 2007 co-host trying her dancing skills. Euroviisut contestant Jippu is there, too, from the same year as Cristal with  Kanna minut and so is Antonio Flores, the partner of runner up in the latest presidential elections earlier this year, Pekka Haavisto. Nothing to do with Eurovision or music but a remarkable thing anyways!

The rumour is Jedward is ready to give Eurovision another try, and that the Irish TV would skip the national final to save some needed PR money and just send the boys off. Now wouldn't that be a blast? Is Baku ready for some Bad behaviour ?  Will Europe go Wow oh wow this time? What else one need in their life but Eurovision and Big Brother? I don't know...

News from Planet Jedward. The twins have had to reschedule their coming Carnival tour that kicks off now in the end of July. Meanwhile their follow up single to Lipstick , Bad behaviour has been released and on top of that they have been apparently offered one million pounds to participate in the next season's Celebrity Big Brother in the UK. If that happens that will be a show I would like to see, just to see if their ADHD-like energy never stops and what they come up with!

The Finnish entry 2009 Lose control gets an African treatment. Stefan Ludik, a Namibian actor, musician, cricket player, the Bachelor of the year and Big Brother Africa contestant just to name a few of his activities has coverd Lose control on his album Burn this town . You can listen to it here .(with the help of a search)

It's really happening. Here's the Buzz Junkie's remix of Anna's single Vinegar , her first UK release. The video features also Ragnar (blond haired guy) from the on going edition of Big Brother. He was eliminated a couple fo weeks ago though... And yes, she repeated again in an interview she's not interested in Eurovision. Oh well... Vinegar was the first single off her second album and she's about to release her third one and the current single is Music everywhere . I prefer her when she sings in Portuguese or Spanish .