I’m glad our friends in Ukraine are back at Eurovision this year. I’ve missed the fact they throw everything, and I mean everything, at their performances. What are your favourite ones? Is it a woman in a box spinning around and around? Is it a massive hamster wheel? Or something as simple as a giant skipping rope? Whatever you like, they never disappoint. At least, they never disappoint me anyway. I think there’s an untapped market in inflatable animals on stage, so NTU take note. And in 2013 they had a giant. He only made a brief appearance and if you blinked you would have missed him, but it was another landmark in Eurovision performances. Said giant Igor Vovkovinskiy carried Злата Леонідівна Огнєвіч/Zlata Leonidivna Ognevich on stage and helped her get a third place. Zlata is 30 today.
З Днем Народження, Злата!