WITH hits such as Dancing On My Own, Call Your Girlfriend and With Every Heartbeat, I bet Sweden would jump at the chance for Robyn to represent it at Eurovision.
But that certainly won’t be happening now, after the Swede issued a withering verdict on the annual song contest, branding it “s**t” and “embarrassing”.
That’s despite winning it three times since 2012, with two of those victories down to Loreen.
Robyn said: “We don’t have any more so I don’t really watch Eurovision. Now it’s just s**t, I would say.”
But going on to admit she has watched some of it in recent years, told the Good Hang With Amy Poehler podcast: “I have American friends I watch it with, and my friend Bert has a blanket he pulls up over his eyes when we’re watching it because it’s so embarrassing. It really is embarrassing.
“After I’ve watched it I feel really overstimulated and in a bad way. I was looking for words – I’m not going to say – but I don’t like it.”
She admitted that she’s not always seen as the coolest person these days, either.
Robyn added: “I find myself in this new space now where it’s like, I’m the embarrassing mum.
“I just want to say, it’s very narrow now, what is cringe and just being human and being silly.
“Being unfiltered is not as easy as it used to be, and I think that’s bad for the world.”
ZOE’S CROPS & ROBBERS
IT’S back to work for golden girl after spending the past month cheering on fiancé at his Together, Together residency in New York.
The US actress has started promoting her new , How To Rob A Bank, alongside co-stars Nicholas Hoult and .
Zoe looked effortlessly cool in a gold crop top and trousers as she posed at the Lincoln Square Theater in the Big Apple.
She will be seen playing a crook in the film, which follows a group of bank robbers hunted by cops after sharing videos of their heists on social media. Dimwits.
SARAH: I JOKED AT BABY PAIN
SARA PASCOE used jokes to mask the heartbreak of her struggles.
In an exclusive chat, the comedian talked about how her sets became a form of self-preservation while she and husband, actor Steen Raskopoulos, were struggling to start a family.
Sara said: “My stand-up at the time was all about how I didn’t want kids, how crap kids were.
“All my stand-up was like, ‘Don’t feel sorry for me, I’m a 40-year-old woman who doesn’t have kids’. I then surprised people when I came out and talked about how I’ve been going through IVF because I could never have done stand-up at the time about the thing I was really going through.”
Now a mum-of-two, Sara has teamed up with Bupa for a mental health campaign encouraging us to be more open about our feelings.
DUST off those glitter baubles – as is taking her Christmas Kitchen Disco on a 17-date nationwide tour.
She will kick off the shows at the Glasgow Armadillo on November 21 2027 before a tinsel-topped finale at London’s Royal Albert Hall on December 15. Tickets go on sale next Friday.
FOURTEEN years after struck that famous leg pose at the , proves it still works.
She went for the same look as Ange in 2012, below, while heading to Tiffany & Co’s Christmas party in New York.
The Housemaid actress wore a classic black gown with a split up the side, and channelled her inner Angelina by sticking her leg out to the side.
Her turn at the bash came after she talked about her from American actor Thomas Sadowski in September.
JESSIE WARE-Y OF TRAITORS
DON’T expect to see Jessie Ware on The Celebrity Traitors next year – because she’d break down if she wasn’t chosen as a Faithful.
She interviewed on her Table Manners podcast and discussed his exit from the show, when he at the Round Table.
Jessie said: “I do think you were very attractive in that moment, I felt like you owned it.
“I actually feel like I couldn’t have been a Traitor. I would have hated confrontation, I would have cried if anyone said I was being a bit rude or weird or cunning.
“I found you very attractive at that stage.”
She added: “I would cry if anybody said I was a Traitor.”
Well, that would be a tell-tale sign.
RAYE FREEZES OUT LOVE RUMOURS
channels her inner ice queen, after confirming a “romance” with Sinners actor never got off the ground.
She will be celebrated at a ceremony in London next Tuesday for GQ Men of the Year.
Speaking to the mag, in which she poses wearing a platinum blonde wig, Raye said of Michael: “No, nothing’s happening there. We’ve been doing some work together for a really cool project.”
But Raye, whose show at BST Hyde Park in July has already sold out, revealed she’s got high hopes for her love life.
She said of her next record: “Everyone knows I’m on strike until, you know, my third album, which is going to be called And Then She Fell In Love, which I’m so serious about.
“I’m absolutely, extremely serious that that’s what my album’s going to be called.”
PERFECT PAPA SHOW THEY’RE THE DADDY
FIRST LISTEN
Papa Roach O2 Arena
★★★★★
BUILDING a connection with 20,000 people is no mean feat.
But Papa Roach frontman Jacoby Shaddix had the London crowd eating out of the palm of his hand.
Launching into Between Angels And Insects, his trademark rasp gave the vocals extra bite as he whipped us up into a frenzy.
By the time Last Resort closed the show, we were giving back everything they had.
Backstage after the show, I met Jacoby and his bandmates who were on a high with the hype they’d created in the capital.
On stage, this is a band who know exactly how to command a room. But behind the scenes, they’re as welcoming and down-to-earth as old friends.
With support from Sleep Theory – who kicked off with an unlikely cover – and LANDMVRKS before the main event, this faultless show was a masterclass in live performing.
- By Alex George
