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topped the charts with You’re Beautiful, but warbler James Blunt has ruled out taking part in the eurovision Song Contest. ‘I think we wouldn’t be doing ourselves any favours with me on stage,’ he tells me at yesterday’s Ivor Novello awards at JW Marriott Grosvenor House. ‘Surely if we’re out of europe, then we should be out of eurovision? So it could be the one bonus that they’re looking for and it could actually unite a country. We could start a new eurovision called Britvision.’ At least we might be in with a chance of winning . . .