Brendan Cole "dancing alone"

The People.co.uk reports:

Strictly Come Dancing star Brendan Cole has told how dirty-dancing with Natasha Kaplinsky cost him his fiancee.

Former dance partner Camilla Dallerup, 33, broke off their engagement after seeing him getting close to the newsreader.

Now sad Brendan, 31, is trying to win her back. He said: "We started fighting. I enjoy partying, but it's not as exciting as our relationship. I'd rather have that than parties."

Danish-born Camilla said: "It was painful to watch him dancing with Natasha. We began to fight.
"Ours was a beautiful story but it ended in a mess."

Brendan reunites with Natasha for the Eurovision Dance Contest to be shown on BBC1 on September 1.

source:people.co.uk

Belgium:On 8 September 15 candidates for Junior Eurovision

belgovision.com reports:

Junior Eurosong 2007 kicks off on Saturday 8th September. Next Tuesday, Eén will elaborate on the new format of Junior Eurosong 2007 during the press presentation of the autumn programmation of Eén and launch a website on which you will be able to follow the Belgian Junior Eurovision Song Contest selections.

Fifteen candidates will appear at the start of Junior Eurosong 2007. 895 kids between 10 and 15 years old innitialy subscribed for the contest. Eighty of them were invited for an audition.

Five coaches, representing five channels of Flemish broadcaster VRT, selected the final fifteen participants. Each of them will coach three of the candidates and play an important role in the Flemish selections for the Junior Eurovision Song Cotest 2007...read more....

EDC Portugal: Sónia Araújo's life and hopes

Sónia Araújo and Ricardo Silva are the dancers chosen by the Portuguese public broadcaster to represent RTP in London at the first Eurovision Dance Contest.

Sónia spoke to esctoday.com and talked about her background as a dancer, her work as a TV-host and the preparations for EDC. Due to agenda issues, Ricardo Silva couldn't be present. He is at the moment competing at the German Open Championship.

You can read Sónia's full interview here




source:esctoday.com

Anna Vissi: New album and more concerts

The following months will be very busy ones for Anna Vissi. A new best of album is expected to be released in September 10th.

The collection "The Essential Anna Vissi" contains some of her very best hits, from her early years in Sony, like "Dodeka" and "Den thelo na kseris", until her Eurovision ballad "Everything" and "Who cares about love", which came third in the Greek Finals 2006. Other songs include "Call me" (the song that topped the Billboard Charts in 2005) and "Is it safe".

Anna's fans in Europe will have the chance to see her live, starting from next October, while an Australian tour is also in the plans for the next year, with shows in Melbourne and Sydney.

Anna will also be the special guest in this year's Oinoussian Gala, which will take place at London's famous Covent Garden Hall, London, UK. Anna will be accompanied by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The prince of Wales, Charles, who's also invited, might attend the event.

Her upcoming shows are:

October 5th, 2007 08:00 PM - The Max (Melkweg) -Amsterdam

October 7th, 2007 08:30 PM - Cirque Royal - Brussels

October 8th, 2007 08:00 PM - Le Grand Rex - Paris

November 11th, 2007 - Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Hall

2008 - Gammabar, Melbourne, Australia

sources:oikotimes.com; eurovision-cyprus.ueuo.com

63 songs submitted for the Junior Song for Europe 2007

OGAE Malta reports:

The Malta Song Board announced that 63 songs were submitted for the 2007 Junior Song for Europe Festival.

This is a remarkable drop from last year's 114 submissions. As a result the Malta Song Board decided that all submitted songs will be heard on a demo cd on Friday 24th August and live on the following day 25th August.
The jury will then choose the 16 finalists for the JSF to be held on the 7th September.

146 entries were submitted in 2005, while 118 entries were submitted in 2004.

Listen to X!nk's Junior Eurosong 2007 theme song

belgovision.com reports:

Give Us A Future, the new single of X!nk, will also be the theme song of Junior Eurong 2007, the Flemish selections for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest taking place next month.

Click this link to hear a preview of Give Us A Future, a song that is partly performed in Dutch, in spite of its English title.

Eurosong is of 'national importance', but for whom?

belgovision.com reports:

For whom is Eurosong of national importance? "For VRT without a doubt," affirms journalist Marc Coenegracht in the newspaper Het Laatse Nieuws. "The public broadcaster is throwing loads of money at the weekly shows and builds up a huge hype in order to then be able to look contentedly at the outstanding viewing figures."

But is Eurosong also of national importance to the image of Flanders and to the Flemish winners, asks Marc, who in a distant past took his place in the professional jury of Eurosong several times. read more...