Ahead of going to bat for the UK at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, Olly Alexander is starting to feel the pressure. “I go to bed thinking of Eurovision, dream of Eurovision, wake up thinking of Eurovision,” he says. “I feel like I’ve gone through everything that could go wrong, every possibility, coming last place, in my head already. I’m overwhelmed.”
The now-solo pop singer — who rose to fame as the lead vocalist in synth-pop trio Years & Years before proving his acting chops in Russell T Davies’s drama It’s A Sin — is in Malmö, Sweden ahead of tomorrow’s final.
