Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Greta Salome is clearly in Halloween mood.... ... as is Svala Artsvik is only posing. Or is she? Isaiah has got the mood.... ... and surely Conchita.... ... as does Valentina and her girls..... Kurt definately is! As is Nathan. Michal is only being himself. Scary enough? Loreen... hard to tell..... Cleo... not. Sweet as ever. Vaclav.... nope.  Jowst. Just being Jowst.  Aram Mp3 and emoji friend Freddie's not afraid of black cats Ira and horror of a snake Sertab. Scary. HAPPY HALLOWEEN PEOPLE!!!!

South of Europe is under the most intense heatwave in decades while the North is asking Waar is de zon? and searching for jumpers and wool socks. And the Eurovision artists just travel all around, for gigs and tours, or just holidays. Maja Keuc did Iceland, just proving the point it's cold up here! Francesco Gabbani gigged in Sicily and enjoyed some lava from Etna.  Talk about heat! Krista Siegfrids did Portugal, the hottest spot to be this summer..... ... as did Ryan Dolan..... ... and Dima Bilan and Sergey Lazarev. For video shooting. Ann Sophie chose Spain instead. Barei did Shanghai Cleo did New York and New Jersey Lena did NYC, too Kati Wolf did Uffizi in Florence... ... and Tamara G did ... err...Disney World, Paris.  Claudia did Amsterdam Pride....  ... while Polina and Slavko did Stockholm Pride Sebalter holidayed in Sardegna before summer gigs ... and Senhit did Greece after summer gigs Jamala ke...

Some years ago MTV and Eurovision were living in a parallel realities never even getting close. Then slowly some Eurovision entrants or wannabes started popping up in the nominees or even winning awards (maNga, Marco Mengoni, Lena, Dima Bilan...) This year is no exception, as many as six Eurovision stars are nominated in their home countries to be the one and only for the race for the ultimate award: in Italy we have Francesca Michielin and Emma , in France Amir , in Belgium Laura Tesoro , in the Netherlands Douwe Bob and finally in Poland Cleo , who battles it out with wannabe Margaret .  In Romania this year's runner up Vanotek is nominated. Special mention for Spain's Alvaro Soler who would be pefect for Eurovision.... who knows? In Finland it might be in pack for Antti Tuisku this year crowning his newfound megasuccess. The other nominees are Eveliina who has taken the spotlight from her girlfriend Sanni a bit (last week the girls were in the singles top-...