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EUROVISION: HOW TO SCORE A BIG FAT ZERO - THE EARLY YEARS

The Eurovision song contest points system with the famous 12 points was introduced in 1975 - and invented by a Finn by the way - and the idea was to avoid zero points and make the top favorites stand out more. Until then there were most every year several entries with zero points when the few points to give landed on the same few favorites. Now it was thought it was easy to get a fll ranking and almost impossible to score a zero. Of course history would prove different- The first and most legendary zero came in Paris 1978 when Norway's jahn Teigen got nothoing for his Mil efter mil.  That didn't stop him coming back twice (and trying about a zillion times) with better results.  And three years later another Norwegian, Finn Kalvik followed with Aldri i livet. That Abba produced the song in their studio and Agnetha and Frida sung backing vocals didn't help. In 1982 it was time for Finland's Kojo with Nuku pommiin. He's still known in Finland as "Nolla-Kojo" ...

UK: CRY CRY BABY, IT'S PRISON TIME FOR JEMINI

Remember Jemini, the only UK act ever to score null points at the Eurovision song contest? Like if that humiliation wasn't enough for the female part of the duo, Gemma Abbey, she decided it's cool to trick subsidies and tax relief for over 72.000 euros over five years. That gave her 30 weeks in prison and on top of that one year probation plus she has to pay that money back. Cry... She claimed she was a single mother, and that she needs higher subsidies and tax breaks because of her daughter's health. Instead she had married in 2013 and lived with the husband since 2010. All this posted in Facebook, and neighbours witnessing the events. She was arrested in 2014 and now the judgements was read,  Now she's got a reason to cry. cry cry baby.... for the next 30 weeks.