{"id":765081,"date":"2026-02-15T00:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T00:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/765081\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T00:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T00:58:13","slug":"tony-grox-lucycalis-win-benidorm-fest-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/765081\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Grox &#038; LUCYCALIS win Benidorm Fest 2026!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>We have a winner in Spain! Tony Grox &amp; LUCYCALIS were \u00a0crowned the winner of the fifth edition of Benidorm Fest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Grand Final of Benidorm Fest 2026 was held today at the <strong>Palau L\u2019Illa<\/strong> in Benidorm, Spain where a total of 12 acts battled for the Benidorm Fest 2026 trophy. Tony Grox &amp; LUCYCALIS declared the winner of the competiond during tonight\u2019s show with \u2018T AMARE\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Grand Final of Benidorm Fest 2026 was hosted by <strong>Jes\u00fas V\u00e1zquez, Javier Ambrossi, In\u00e9s Hernand<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Lalachus.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chanel<\/strong>\u00a0( Spain 2022),\u00a0<strong>Blanca Paloma<\/strong>\u00a0( Spain 2023),\u00a0<strong>Nebulossa<\/strong>\u00a0(Spain 2024) and\u00a0<strong>Melody<\/strong> (Spain 2025) performed during tonight\u2019s show as guest acts.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 Benidorm Fest winner <strong>Melody<\/strong> (Spain 2025) handed the Benidorm Fest 2026 trophy to the winner.\u00a0The 2026 Benidorm Fest winner was selected via a combined 50% jury and 50 % public vote\u00a0 deliberation.<\/p>\n<p>Benidorm Fest 2026<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 Benidorm Fest consisted of three live televised shows (two semi-finals and a Grand Final). A total of <strong>18 acts<\/strong> partook in the competition, 9 acts battled in each of the two semi-finals, the top six acts from each semi-final proceeded to the Grand Final. Hence a total of 12 acts battled for the coveted trophy in the Grand Final. Benidorm Fest 2026 ran from <strong>10-14 February.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; We have a winner in Spain! Tony Grox &amp; LUCYCALIS were \u00a0crowned the winner of the fifth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5312],"tags":[69303,61537,2000,299,19345,66838,104],"class_list":["post-765081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-benidorm-fest","tag-benidorm-fest-2026","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-eurovision","tag-rtve","tag-spain"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116071936998227187","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765081","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=765081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}