STYLISH SHELDON IS A (EURO)VISION IN WHITE
TURIN: Reality TV singer Sheldon Riley dressed the part, at least.
The Australian, who has appeared on The Voice and X Factor, stunned in a flamboyant all-white outfit at the opening ceremony of the annual Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, but online bookies give him only a 1 per cent chance of taking the title, which is tipped to go to Ukraine’s entrant, Oleh Psiuk’s Kalush Orchestra.
The Ukrainian entry, a rapper and frontman of Kalush Orchestra, will perform a song about his mother and her greying hair. He needed a waiver from the government to leave Ukraine to compete as nearly all men under 65 are required to stay in the country to help fight the Russian invaders.
The Ukrainian group has been installed by the bookies as the sentimental odds-on favourites, but Psiuk, 27, insists their song, Stefania, will win on its own merit.
“Now we have first place with the bookmakers, but before the war we were fifth. It turns out people really like our song, so huge gratitude to everybody,” he said.
Psiuk, who is from Kalush in the west of Ukraine, said winning would “increase the morale of the country”.