Josh Dubovie has won the chance to represent Britain at the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest.

The 19 year old professional singer didn’t give a great rendition of ‘Too Many Broken Hearts’ during the first round of tonight’s Eurovision: Your Country Needs You (watch the clip above), but when it came to singing the Pete Waterman penned single ‘That Sounds Good To Me,’ he was the best of a bad bunch.

Eurovision 2010 will take place in Oslo, Norway in May. We are expecting Britain to come last……..again!

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Ok, so we hoped for huge things from Miss Fitz tonight. Although they tactfully neglected to mention it, these girls have previously reached X Factor bootcamp and we remembered then as being quite talented.

Well either they have all lost their voices, or they are victims of secret body snatchers because tonight they were 100% awful.

The three piece girl group tried to sing Kylie Minogue’s ‘Better The Devil You Know’ on tonight’s national competition to decide who gets to enter the Eurovision competition later this year. Yes, we know, it’s a stupid concept and a ridiculous excuse for a TV show. Made worse by the fact that NONE of the contestants can sing.

Back to Miss Fitz, our live blogger Gerard described the performance well when he said:

Blonde one looks like mutton. The hot brunette one clearly can’t sing – falls out of tune badly at one point. It’s a vibrant enough stage performance, but the vocals fell short throughout. Pete backs this up in his comments. I think they could have picked one person to do a lead vocal instead of trying to share it.

Check out Miss Fitz’s much better X factor audition below.

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OK, so compared to most of the other contestants on tonight’s Eurovision debacle Josh Dubovie didn’t give a bad performance. For the live show, the 19 year old professional singer gave a rendition of Jason Donovan’s ‘Too Many Broken Hearts’.

While he stayed in tune (which was more than Miss Fitz managed) and had a smooth tone to his voice, we didn’t see much passion in his performance, and even four cute girls in leopard print tops couldn’t make it better!

He has got to step it up a bit next week if he wants the audience to stay awake for his whole song.

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UPDATE: Ignore the rest of this article. We just listened to Esma’s attempt at singing the actual Eurovision entry ‘That Sounds Good To Me’ and she was really pretty bad!! She forgot her words, was pitchy and added nothing to the already awful song. None of these people deserve to sing in a karaoke bar, never mind represent the UK in an international singing competition!

After the abysmal performances so far, if the BBC had any sense they would just award the top spot to Esma Akkilic right now and not put us through a lengthy public vote. It makes sense since she’s the only who competed that could actually sing well.

Esma is the youngest competitor on the show and at just 17 years of age you would expect her to be quite weak on stage. However, unlike most of her fellow participants, she actually has a strong and tuneful voice and more stage presence than the other five acts combined.

She wouldn’t win the X Factor or anything, but compared to the rest of tonight’s singers she was world class.

Tonioli called her a ‘little diva in the making’ and offered to polish her diamond. I thought he was gay?

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We can’t believe that the BBC actually put this five piece band together specially for the Eurovision competition. Individually they may be able to sing, but as a group they may actually have produced the worst musical moment that we have ever witnessed.

On tonight’s show they sang a Steps song, ( though they claim it was by Bananarama ) and we’ve never sworn so much at our television, not even in the most awful of X Factor auditions.

The only one who shone was the mousey bloke at the end but then the other guy dragged it straight back into the gutter. If this is some of the best talent in Britain, then we might just move to The States.

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Proving that the BBC haven’t asked any actually talented people to try out for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, they plonked Karen Harding on the stage and asked her to sing What Do I Have To Do by Kylie Minogue.

The 18 year old is a professional singer who began performing at an early age but who has no formal training besides the occasional singing lesson. On tonight’s show she claimed to have some connection with X Factor winner Joe McElderry, but in the end it made no difference, she was still awkward and pitchy.

The judges were gave her some nice and encouraging comments, proving that they weren’t listening to the same song that we were.

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Looking at 20 year old Alexis take to the pre-Eurovision stage tonight, we hoped that he’d be good. He looked like he should be great but in fact he wasn’t.

Pete Waterman mentioned that Alexis was the least experienced performer in this year’s Eurovision competition and we felt that it really showed.

Although Alexis’ singing was passable, he staging and choreography were just awful. As our live blogger Gerard wrote:

Alexis describes his performance as “the best moment of my life”. Clearly he’s a virgin. Christ, I’ve had more exciting illnesses than that performance.

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We’ve been doing Eurovision in Britain for many years now. But with the advent of reality television, what better way to decide who represents the country this year than to put it to a public vote? And that’s what’s happening on BBC One tonight – six acts will perform for our pleasure. Then we vote for the one we like the most. Simples.

Graham ‘I’m doing Eurovision now Wogan’s retired’ Norton is presenting tonight’s show, and last year’s winner Alexander Rybak is performing. So are the latest version of the Sugababes (which now features our last Eurovision entrant, Miss Jade Ewen).

Also here tonight is the mastermind of this year’s Eurovision entry – Pete Waterman, who’s written the song for Britain. Tonight, as a test of their musical mettle, the potential entrants will sing classic Stock, Aiken and Waterman singles. Brilliant! This should be camp as hell tonight, and full of great tracks. Yes, I was a huge SAW fan back in the day

Karen Harding

Karen introduces herself – she’s from Newcastle and won some talent competition and mutters about some connection to Joe McElderry, as if that was a seal of musical talent. Singing Kylie’s What Do I Have To Do, this is every bit as awkward as I inwardly predicted before she even started (I wish I’d done a fancy writing my prediction down and putting it in an envelope for extra effect). Sorry, but her voice is horrible. Really? Is this the caliber of contestant we’re considering this year? That was amateur hour material.

The ’star-studded’ judging panel includes Pete Waterman himself. Eurovision ‘veteran’ Jade Ewen, and celebrity chef/former Eurovision dancer/Strictly judge Bruno Tonioli.

Alexis Gerard

Alexis seems like a smoother kind of guy in his intro video, which I missed while trying to figure out how to spell Tonioli. Grrr. He’s a definite step up from the disaster that was Karen. The singing is passable. The staging and choreography are just horrible. There’s a guy with a ponytail gyrating on the stairs – that’s an authentic throwback right there. Alexis describes his performance as “the best moment of my life”. Clearly he’s a virgin. Christ, I’ve had more exciting illnesses than that performance.

Following on from my comments on Karen – I have to say that the judges are utterly pointless. If they’re not going to take this seriously and curse and swear at the rubbish singers, then they’re just padding the show out. Moving on…

Uni5

Uni5, a group from Coventry who have a Steps-style formation. They’re singing a Steps song, surprisingly (even though they said Bananarama in their VT). I’ve never sworn so much at my television, I mean it. This is horrible. And oh my gods, the mousey bloke has a rich, booming voice on his solo bit, then the other guy drags it back into the gutter. This is a moment of great national shame – three acts have performed and not one of them is worth voting for.

Esma

Esma speaks of national pride. I think any national pride we had before this show started has evaporated by now. Singing Donna Summer’s This Time I Know It’s For Real (Waterman likes his song titles looonnnnngggg), Esma is at least good looking and more or less tuneful. It may not be a world-beating performance (that’s OK, we only have to beat the rest of Europe), but it’s definitely the best we’ve heard tonight. The crowd are rapturous, because she has possibly relieved their eardrums. Tonioli calls her a ‘little diva in the making’ and offers to polish her diamond. I thought he was gay?

Josh

Josh from Basildon doesn’t inspire much confidence in his video, but let’s give him the benefit of the doubt. He’s singing Jason Donovan’s Too Many Broken Hearts. Okay, the positives are that he stays in tune and has a reasonable tone to his voice. The negatives – I’m not getting much passion in the performance, and even four cute girls in leopard print tops can’t save this for me.

Mizz Fitz

Back to Kylie and this time it’s Better The Devil You Know. Sung in a girl band stylee by Miss Fitz – who aren’t the same Miss Fitz from X Factor (unfortunately). Blonde one looks like mutton. The hot brunette one clearly can’t sing – falls out of tune badly at one point. It’s a vibrant enough stage performance, but the vocals fell short throughout. Pete backs this up in his comments. I think they could have picked one person to do a lead vocal instead of trying to share it.

Group Performance

Ah, the age old ABBA medley. Can’t fault it. Except when sung by a bunch of really bad singers. And here they are, acting like this was some kind of big end-of-X-Factor group performance, except it’s a tuneless karaoke mess. Hey, there’s an idea, why not just walk into any bar tonight and drag out some half-paralytic barflies and get them to sing a few Kylie tunes? I can guarantee it’d be better than this half-assed rubbish. And I should know. I watch rubbish TV for a living.

Moving on, the acts chosen are Esma (obviously), Alexis and Josh. Next up – all the acts get to sing the song wot Pete and Mike Stock wrote. The instrumentation is very Better The Devil at the start. Alexis wrecks the song, missing every high note he’s supposed to sing, like a blindfolded darts player. Total disaster. Esma takes a go next, but she’s not much better. In fact, she raises the bar for wrecking the song by actually forgetting the words! OK, so it’s a new song, but she totally interrupts the performance. I’ll bet she just wants to crawl off somewhere and cry. I know I do.

After two unparalleled disasters, Josh performs the only version that’s remotely in tune. He does it with a smug grin on his face, possibly because he knows this. But you wanna know what the truth is? The song That Sounds Good To Me is just bile, utter tripe. It’s Stock and Waterman going through the motions, unconvincingly.

Alexis claims that he wants to represent his country, the patriotic wag. I’m glad it’s patriotism and not because he wants to be famous or something shallow like that. Josh opts for honesty, saying that he ‘wants this more than anybody else’. I forget what Esma said, but at least I’m not alone in forgetting words this evening…

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After last night’s shocking American Idol results show, only 12 contestants remain. There are just 6 guys and 6 girls left in the contest and your final 12 for 2010 are:

Andrew Garcia
Lacey Brown
Michael Lynche
Katie Stevens
Lee Dewyze
Casey James
Siobhan Magnus
Tim Urban
Didi Benami
Aaron Kelly
Paige Miles
Crystal Bowersox

There a few obvious frontrunners at this stage and we could easily see Crystal Bowersox, Casey James and Lee Dewyze doing well. Who are your favourite contestants and are there any that you don’t think deserves their spot? As always leave your comments below.

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Tim Urban looked more shocked than we were that he made this year’s American idol final 12. In the video clip above, he talks about his joy to have made it so far and also talks about possible future themes.

While he is happy to be going with a Rolling Stones song next week, the Jonas Brother lookalike admitted that he would ideally like to sing ‘big band and swing music.’

He said:

‘Not a lot of people know this, but it would be a lot of fun to sing some big band swing music on the show. I love that style of music though it doesn’t really work with the guitar. It would definitely be an upbeat number.’

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