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Tour - May 28th to June 3rd
Eurovision 2008: Winner's Tour to Ireland and San Marino
Ireland and San Marino are now confirmed as destinations included in the 2008 Winner’s Tour, which will bring the winner of the 53rd Eurovision Song Contest through a total of eight European countries between 28th of May and 3rd of June.
The Winner’s Tour stops in Ireland on Friday, 30th of May, where the fresh Eurovision Song Contest winner will meet with fans, and will appear in the popular TV talk-show The Late Late Show. It's not only the most popular TV-show on RTÉ and in Ireland, it is also the longest running talk show in the world!
On the 3rd of June, the 2008 Winner's Tour will be concluded in San Marino, one of the two new countries represented in the Eurovision Song Contest. Concerning the San Marinese broadcaster, more details will be revealed on the special occasion later.
- 28th of May: Helsinki (Finland)
- 29th of May: Stockholm (Sweden)
- 30th of May: Stockholm (Sweden) and Oslo (Norway)
- 31st of May: London, United Kingdom
- 1st of June: Ostend, Belgium
- 2nd of June: Paris, France
- 3rd of June: San Marino
The activities on the Winner's Tour schedule is preliminary, and last minute changes and additions can be made. Keep an eye for the latest Winner's Tour news.
Slightly delayed, the special Winner's Tour website will be launched in the next couple of days.
Last year, the European Broadcasting Union offered the first ever Winner's Tour to Marija Šerifovic' from Serbia, visiting Denmark, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and Greece.
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a clip of the winning entry of west end eurovision performed by the cast of wicked the musical http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=_U9hlMDlxXg
wicked are the first ever winners of west end eurovision, a fantastic night that anyone who was there will never forget, great thanks must go to all who performed to help raise vital funds for theatremad, it was one of the campest nights theatre that the west end has ever seen, im sur that others would agree and lets hope that next years is even bigger, i can imagine tickets will be like gold dust next year, the songs performed by each cast were WICKED ooh aah just a little bit,AVENUE Q waterloo,BUDDY save your kisses for me, GREASE making you mind up,my personal fave was MAMMA MIA dinge-dong,PHANTOM love enough for two, LION KING drame queen, the film clips were fabulous, the opening number was an inspired mix of each show specially written for tonight, the judges were fab, the band were amazing and the host was hilarious, congratulations must go to david pendlebury and all at theatremad for pulling off a theatrical treat, i cant wait till next year
"Winner's tour to "San Marino."
Probably take just 5 minutes.
dont forget that this thursday is WEST END EUROVISION taking place at the piccadilly theatre starring the casts of WICKED, PHANTOM, SOUND OF MUSIC, LION KING, MAMMA MIA,GREASE, AVENUE Q, LORD OF THE RINGS, BUDDY all performing evergreen eurovision classic all in aid of theatremad tickets are available on 0870 060 6630 quote STAGE DOOR OFFER and get top price seats for y £20 the judging panle will include cheryl baker(bucks fizz), sally ann triplett (bardo & prima donna) and frances rufelle,
http://br.youtube.co(...)/watch?v=FE6sw4tozZE - watch the english version of portuguese entry senhora do mar - lady of the sea
good song uk!!
Richard M is the nastiest piece of work on this site.... he is a vitriolic bitcy queen. I know many others will agree....
Hmmm, why so much focus on the Western countries? Isn't it better to send the winner off to the countries that will actually vote for him? Like Azerbaijan, Macedonia, Moldova, Ukraine, Armenia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Belarus, Georgia, Serbia, Latvia, Bosnia, Romania, Turkey, Russia and Albania? That's where the votes are gathered; that's where he has a chance at making a career.
Or maybe it's all about the money after all.
Stupid tour with almost no countries where Eurovision is really liked by people
My question is, did they think it through?
What about eastern europe? Instead of sending the winner to countrys where Eurovision's intrest increases, they send him to places the glory of ESC is long gone (besides Sweden of course..)
My question is, did they think it through?
What about eastern europe? Instead of sending the winner to countrys where Eurovision's intrest increases, they send him to places the glory of ESC is long gone (besides Sweden of course..)
San Marino, bring back Italy 
pliz!
The choice of San Marino is an heavy weapon to bribe that shit of RAI!!!
I think it's good they decided to visit San Marino... Maybe country will show more interest in Eurovision (but I think they are trying to get Italy back)
anyway San Marino is beautiful country. I hope to go again one day, and I think winner of the Eurovision will like it too.
- Fabio Deluca
Oh yeah, he only has hormones for his beloved Charlotte!!! 
I doubt 'Hero' has any boyfriend. Remember 'he has not the hormones to like men' (sic).
Gosh all three people in San Marino can now see the winner. Bet they are sooo excited they cant sleep.
Maybe next year they can take it to the Vatican city . . . . . .!!!
cool! I wonder will they do any other shows in ireland apart from the late late show?
- Fabio Deluca
"Size isn't everything" - Thats what "Hero"'s boyfriend keeps on telling him when they're in bed!!!
They are soooo obviously trying to get Italy interested. After all, they will have to drive through some of Italy to get there as there's no airport in SM (is there a helipad?). So I suppose technically the tour will go through 9 countries rather than 8, one of which isn't even competeing! 
San Marino is a beautiful place. Size is not everything! But this website is plenty of ignorant people, why should I care?
San Marino =S? Stupid idea.
san marino? oh who cares visiting san Marino?
San Marino??? LOL
rofl @ san marino
this is blatently trying to get italy to enter 
but good for them (lucky san marinese )
I suppose by bringing the tour to San Marino, the EBU are trying to drum up some interest, but can I ask, where in San Marino!!!!!?????? It is smaller than my home town!!
And i'm glad they're bringing it to Ireland, the kings of eurovision!
But please EBU, take it to the east where it will be much better appreciated! 
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