Comedian Bill Bailey has confirmed that he is now writing a song to put forward as the UK’s entry for next year’s Eurovision Song Contest.After James Newman came last in the 2021 contest last month – scoring zero points with his song ‘Embers’ – Bailey tweeted that he would “be happy to throw my hat in the ring”.Asked by the Radio Times if that was a serious comment, he said: “Yes.
Do you know what? I was writing [a Eurovision song] today. This very day. Because I just thought, why not? Come on, we’ve not been doing well lately.
It couldn’t have gone worse [this year]. We need to inject a bit of fun, I think”.This isn’t Bailey’s first attempt at entering Eurovision.
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