Wow! What a Wednesday!

SOOOOOO many fantastic performances today here at the Crystal Arena!!!

After the complete hideous shock of poor Eva's wedding cake ensemble things really started to improve.  Sweden's Loreen was nothing short of sensational - and showed why she's the runaway favourite with the bookies.


Then we had the complete bombastic over-the-topness of Anri from Georgia, who delivered a stage performance that will surely see him through to the final.  This pic says it all really!


Hot Ott from Estonia made loads of friends with his amazing performance of "Kuula", and smiled his way through a perfect press conference.  Quite the charmer - and stunning to look at!!!


And then we had the Persian Prince of Norway, Tooji.  Fab rehearsal and such a fun guy!  This MUST qualify!!!


Semi 2 is going to be tough to call - any combination of about 14 songs could get through out of the 18!!! Predictions later, after they do their second rehearsals...

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