BILL Bailey has told how he was rejected by the BBC after sending in a potential entry for Eurovision. The comic, 56, slammed channel bosses for taking the competition "too seriously" after British contestant James Newman was awarded a humiliating "nil points".
Explaining he has already tried to offer help to win the European singing competition, Bill told Good Morning Britain today: "A few years ago I sent in an entry to Eurovision. "It was a kind of spoof eco anthem in the style of Dad's Army.
The BBC said it was 'too silly, we can't have that'." I thought 'well the taking it too seriously isn't going too well either is it?'.
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