Revealed: Lithuania, not Sweden, was Britain’s real Eurovision choice

So when Nigella Lawson popped up on television to give Britain’s results, what had Britain decided? The UK vote is a 50/50 split between jury and televoting – and the Eurovision authorities have just given the breakdown. They show that British televoters went for the cute, joyful Lithuanian duet.

Our second choice was Poland, whose rather lovely Monika Kuszyńska did pretty badly overall, finishing in 23rd place with just ten points. She would have been given ten points from the UK alone had there been no jury. (The UK entry finished 24th overall with five points; voting data shows the Polish public thought it was as bad as everyone else did).

Here’s the breakdown.

UK public votes, rank:

1. Lithuania
2. Poland
3. Sweden
4. Italy
5. Australia
6. Latvia
7. Russia
8. Belgium
9. Serbia
10. Israel

UK jury ranking:

1. Sweden
2. Australia
3. Israel
4. Italy
5. Latvia
6. Russia
7. Cyprus
8. Belgium
9. Germany
10. Slovenia