It has been confirmed that the UK will host next year's Eurovision - a decision announced on Monday, July 27. However, GMB presenter Charlotte Hawkins, questioned the cost of the move saying on the ITV show on Tuesday "I'm not sure we've got that much to spare!"
The UK came second in the contest to winners Ukraine. However, due to the war in the country will delegate its hosting duties.
Charlotte was presenting alongside Ed Balls. They began the segment taking to Ukrainian Eurovision presenter Timur Miroshnychenko about the change of location and which UK city he would like to see host the contest. While Timur wouldn't be drawn on the best location, the show's next guest was keen to give their opinion.
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Nine cities have already declared their intention to put in an official bid including London, Cardiff, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Bradford, Dundee, Glasgow and Belfast.
Ed Balls, a former Nottingham High School pupil, added "I'd just like to declare that Norwich and Leeds and Nottingham will be bidding - they may not have decided that yet but I'm pretty confident they will."
Moving on from the quip, he then introduced Claire McColgan, director of Culture Liverpool, asking is Liverpool the right place? While Claire began stating the city's case, co-host Charlotte Hawkins questioned the cost of the move. The ITV presenter used Azerbaijan as an example saying the country had spent £48 million in 2012.
"When we think about the cost of it, it can be a lot for whoever's hosting," she said. "You know, we're seeing Azerbaijan was said to have spent £48m hosting in 2012 - I'm not sure we've got that much to spare!"
Laughing, McColgan explained she hoped whichever city hosts would be helped out, but added that the city of Liverpool had shown it can "work quickly". She said: "I think the key thing about Liverpool is we did the events research programme where we opened up the first nightclub - the first festival during Covid.
"We work very quickly and Liverpool's got an infrastructure where we can put an event on in a really short time. But the event it's really impactful as well. So we can shut the whole city down.
"So even though the show itself is in the arena, we've got these really iconic spaces that are known across the world. We can just do some really, really beautiful things that I don't think any other city can do."
Co-host Ed Balls added: "I think we need to make sure that the two leadership contenders get asked in tonight's debate whether they'll slump up the cash. I can guarantee they will both say yes."
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