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Eurovision Odds Semi-Final Special – Finalists Revealed

by Stuart Heritage

If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll have seen that over the last three weeks, we’ve been profiling each contender for the Eurovision Song Contest 2005. That’s 39 singers singing 39 songs. Now, if the main event had 39 different countries, it’d go on forever and everyone would feel like slashing their throats by the end [...]

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Eurovision Odds – Switzerland and Turkey

by Stuart Heritage

It’s the penultimate day of the hecklerspray and Betfair.com Eurovision Song Contest special betting rundown. Tomorrow night, the contestants will be trying their best to match up to all the past Eurovision winners, such as Johnny Logan, Dana, Johnny Logan, Dana International and Bobbysocks, the 1985 Norwegian winner. Today, we’ll be looking at Switzerland and [...]

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Hit Me Baby One More Time Odds – The Grand Final

by Stuart Heritage

Fans of hopeless music face a terrible dilemma tomorrow night. On BBC1, hopeless musicians from all around the continent will get together to honk and squawk in the Eurovision Song Contest. But at the same time on ITV1, a group of old hopeless musicians will be together, willing to flush the last of their dignity [...]

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Eurovision Odds – Spain and Sweden

by Stuart Heritage

The 2005 Eurovision Song Contest is so close that we can practically smell the body glitter and diamond-studded knickers. hecklerspray, along with Betfair.com, continue to profile each country’s odds for your special betting needs. The most covered Eurovision song of all time is Voltare. Versions of it have been sung by David Bowie, Dean Martin [...]

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Eurovision Odds – Serbia & Montenegro and Slovenia

by Stuart Heritage

The Eurovision Song Contest is right around the corner. hecklerspray and Betfair.com continue to profile the countries and acts for your special betting needs. Of all the European countries, Italy is the most rubbish when it comes to Eurovision. They’ve only had one entry since 1993. The reason behind this is a mystery. Maybe because [...]

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Celebrity Love Island Odds – The Men

by Stuart Heritage

Celebrity Love Island continues on ITV tonight, and the nation is on the edge of it’s seat wondering if that bloke off the telly is going to cop off with that woman off the telly or not. Earlier we looked at the women from a TV betting point of view, and now it’s time for [...]

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Eurovision Odds – Romania and Russia

by Stuart Heritage

The betting on Eurovision is hotting up folks. Betfair has taken more than £400,000 in Eurovision bets and we expect £1m on the night, which is tonight, if you’re reading on Saturday 21 May. Place your bets now please. For the latest Betfair Eurovision odds click here. hecklerspray has created an entire Eurovision Betting channel [...]

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Celebrity Love Island Odds – The Ladies

by Stuart Heritage

There have been several ITV game shows with the word ‘Celebrity’ in the title lately, and Celebrity Love Island is nothing if not the most recent. The big question is – who will win? Today hecklerspray and Betfair.com are going to look at the ladies involved, with their odds. There have been several ITV game [...]

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Eurovision Odds – Poland and Portugal

by Stuart Heritage

There’s only a few days left until the Eurovision Song Contest unveils itself in an explosion of bad rhymes and worse costumes, and hecklerspray with Betfair.com are continuing our mission to profile every entry. Yesterday saw the second rehearsal for the semi-final round. And we’ve learnt the following nuggets: The Romanians are upset because they [...]

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Big Brother 6: First Look

by C J Davies

Drip drip. The details are leaking through. And don’t pretend you’re not interested. Is Big Brother lowest-common-denominator trash TV, wired and immersed in base-level voyeurism and mindless pseudo-celebrity? Damn right it is. Are you still going to watch it anyway? Course you are. The Sunday Mirror knows this all too well. Which is why the [...]

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