{"id":104613,"date":"2025-05-15T22:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T22:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/104613\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T22:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T22:09:13","slug":"%f0%9f%87%ac%f0%9f%87%a7-united-kingdom-sophie-ellis-bextor-replaces-ncuti-gatwa-as-spokesperson-for-eurovision-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/104613\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 United Kingdom: Sophie Ellis-Bextor Replaces Ncuti Gatwa as Spokesperson for Eurovision 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has announced that Sophie Ellis-Bextor has replaced Ncuti Gatwa as the United Kingdom\u2019s spokesperson for Eurovision 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC has announced that due to unforeseen circumstances, Ncuti Gatwa is no longer able to be the spokesperson for the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest. Instead singer and radio presenter Sophie Ellis-Bextor will now announce the results of the United Kingdom\u2019s jury, she commented:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cI love Eurovision and it\u2019s a privilege to be part of 2025\u2019s Grand Final. What an honour it is to announce the UK\u2019s jury score on such a special show which always puts music front and centre. I am very much looking forward to delivering the iconic douze points from the United Kingdom!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Remember Monday will be representing the United Kingdom this year with their entry \u201cWhat The Hell Just Happened?\u201d. The entry was internally selected by the BBC and formally revealed on the 7th of March. As a member of the Big 5, the United Kingdom will automatically perform in the Grand Final on Saturday the 17th of May.<\/p>\n<p>Who are Remember Monday?<\/p>\n<p>Remember Monday is a country-pop girl group formed of Charlotte Steele, Holly-Anne Hull, and Lauren Byrne. Formerly known as Houston, the group formed in 2013 when they met while studying at The Sixth Form College Farnborough, changing their name to Remember Monday in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Their first big television appearance occurred in 2019, when they participated in The Voice UK, reaching the quarter-finals after being mentored by Jennifer Hudson.<\/p>\n<p>Want to know more about the trio? We had the pleasure of speaking to them at Eurovision In Concert:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Image Source: BBC Radio 3 | Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DJsFp9cIBOP\/?igsh=bjRleWEzbXJhdmZn&amp;fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR46ybtszRLyKe3OuRqIoJAVOVqyOsm1VV6c9qGAZNKR8qpxIWufBIvSviwLNA_aem_Xaa6dVO0dudbOOwz1WPrvQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/eurovoix.com\/tag\/headline\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Headline<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/eurovoix.com\/tag\/sophie-ellis-bextor\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sophie Ellis-Bextor<\/a>\t<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Anthony-96x96.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-96 photo\" height=\"96\" width=\"96\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<p>Posted by:Anthony Granger<\/p>\n<p>Since launching Eurovoix in April 2011, it has been a pleasure to find out more about this amazing continent through the Eurovision Family of Events. From starting out as a small site, it&#8217;s been brilliant to see the site grow and flourish and continue to bring our readers everything from the world of Eurovision.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BBC has announced that Sophie Ellis-Bextor has replaced Ncuti Gatwa as the United Kingdom\u2019s spokesperson for Eurovision&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,2774,1144,712,45958,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-104613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-headline","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-sophie-ellis-bextor","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114514139657133879","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}