The UK's 2025 Eurovision Song Contest entry has made a surprising admission, revealing they are "not doing it for the points".
Band Remember Monday were officially unveiled as Britain's act earlier this month, and will take their song 'What The Hell Just Happened?' to the competition in Basel, Switzerland in May.
Speaking to Metro, the members revealed that they are "making the conscious decision" not to look at the UK's betting odds, explaining that they "cannot have their live performance affected in any way".
"We’re not doing it for the points," band member Holly-Anne Hull said. "We’re doing it to watch that video back and be so proud of what we’ve done at that stage."
"You look at the history within Eurovision, the amount of winners that were like 20th in the bookies’ bets. It doesn’t mean anything," Charlotte Steele noted, before Lauren Byrne joked: "You hear that bookies?"
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Holly-Anne did reveal a more personal reason for wanting to win though, sharing: "My husband has bet – we’re right at the bottom – he’s bet that we’ll win. So do it for him."
The country group previously got to the quarter finals of The Voice UK under the mentorship of Jennifer Hudson.
Speaking previously about their Eurovision song, the group explained: "'What The Hell Just Happened' is exactly how we’re feeling right now! It’s all very surreal; our friendship goes so far back, and we definitely never imagined that we’d be doing anything like this.
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"When you’re a kid and people ask you what you want to be when you grow up, an absolute classic is 'I wanna be a pop star', so the fact that we’re getting the chance to live that dream as three best friends is just wild."
Eurovision 2025 will take place in Switzerland after their entry Nemo won the competition in Malmö, Sweden last year.
Eurovision 2025 will take place in Basel, Switzerland, in May 2025.
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