EastEnders bosses made a last minute change to Monday night's episode to reference the United Kingdom's unexpectedly good result at Eurovision.
While there was a lot more optimism around the UK's chances this year, thanks to the efforts of the BBC team and music management team TAP to put us in a much stronger position than 12 months ago, not many people would have forecast a second place finish on Saturday night as newly crowned national treasure Sam Ryder was beaten by only pre-Eurovision Song Contest favourites Ukraine.
Space Man singer Sam had been touting Europe in the run up to the annual event, taking to the stage at big pre-parties in the likes of London and Amsterdam and performing on the streets of Madrid and Berlin to name just two cities. The UK could not have asked for a better ambassador than the TikTok star and on Saturday night he delivered an absolutely fantastic performance of the song that is now sitting pretty at the top of the UK iTunes chart.
