List of Eurovision Song Contest presenters
This list includes those who have acted as presenters of the Eurovision Song Contest, since the competitions inception in 1956. From 1988, it has been the norm to have two presenters for the contest. All contests before 1978 have had one presenter, and only a few after 1988 have had only one presenter (these being in 1993, 1995 and 2013). The 1999 contest was the first to consist of three presenters in one contest, and this method has been used most often since 2010.
Presenters
Green room hosts
Year | Presenter(s) |
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1976 | Hans van Willigenburg |
1980 | |
2002 | Tiina Kimmel and Kirke Ert |
2003 | Ilze Jaunalksne and Dīvs Reiznieks |
2004 | Sertab Erener (final) |
2005 | Ruslana Lyzhychko and Wladimir Klitschko (final) |
2007 | Krisse Salminen (final) |
2008 | Kristina Radenković and Branislav Katić |
2009 | Dmitry Shepelev[2] |
2013 | Eric Saade (final)[3] |
2015 | Conchita Wurst |
2017 | Timur Miroshnychenko |
2018 | Filomena Cautela[4] |
Online host
Year | Presenter(s) |
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2020 | Nikkie de Jager[5] |
Songs of Europe
Songs of Europe was a concert television programme from Mysen, Norway to commemorate the contest's twenty-fifth anniversary. The event featured nearly all the winners of the contest from 1956 to 1981.
Location | Presenter |
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Rolf Kirkvaag and Titten Tei |
Kvalifikacija za Millstreet
Kvalifikacija za Millstreet (English: Qualification for Millstreet; French: Qualification pour Millstreet) was the preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest 1993. Seven countries took part; Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.
Location | Presenter |
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Tajda Lekše |
Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest
Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest was a special TV show broadcast from Copenhagen, Denmark to mark the Eurovision Song Contest's fiftieth anniversary and to determine the Contest's most popular entrant of its fifty years. The event was hosted by two former participants:
Location | Presenters |
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Katrina Leskanich and Renārs Kaupers |
Eurovision Song Contest's Greatest Hits
Eurovision Song Contest's Greatest Hits (also known as Eurovision's Greatest Hits) was a live television concert programme organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to commemorate the Eurovision Song Contest's 60th anniversary.
Location | Presenters |
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Petra Mede and Graham Norton |
Eurovision: Europe Shine a Light
Eurovision: Europe Shine a Light was a live television programme organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and produced by AVROTROS, NOS and NPO that replaces the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 after its cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Location | Presenters |
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Chantal Janzen, Edsilia Rombley and Jan Smit |
Presenters born outside the host country
- Katie Boyle, born in Florence, Italy to an Italian-Russian father and a British-Australian mother
- Mireille Delannoy, born in France
- Helga Guitton, born in Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia)[6]
- Léon Zitrone, born in Petrograd, Russian Empire (now Saint Petersburg, Russia)
- Lill Lindfors, born in Helsinki, Finland
- Åse Kleveland, born in Stockholm, Sweden to a Norwegian father and a Swedish mother
- Viktor Lazlo, born in Lorient, France
- Fionnuala Sweeney, born in Belfast, United Kingdom
- Ulrika Jonsson, born in Sollentuna, Sweden
- Terry Wogan, born in Limerick, Ireland
- Maria Menounos, born in Medford, Massachusetts, United States to Greek parents
- Nadia Hasnaoui, born in Morocco to a Moroccan father and a Norwegian mother
- Anke Engelke, born in Montréal, Quebec, Canada to German parents
- Katrina Leskanich, born in Topeka, Kansas, United States
- Graham Norton, born in Clondalkin, Ireland
- Daniela Ruah, born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States to Portuguese parents
Presenters who had formerly competed at Eurovision
- Corry Brokken, represented the Netherlands in 1956 and 1958, winner of the 1957 contest
- Yardena Arazi, represented Israel in 1976 as part of Chocolate, Menta, Mastik and 1988
- Lill Lindfors, represented Sweden in 1966 alongside Svante Thuresson
- Åse Kleveland, represented Norway in 1966
- Gigliola Cinquetti, winner of the 1964 contest and runner-up in the 1974 contest for Italy
- Toto Cutugno, winner of the 1990 contest for Italy
- Dafna Dekel, represented Israel in 1992
- Katrina Leskanich, winner of the 1997 contest for the United Kingdom as part of Katrina and the Waves
- Renārs Kaupers, represented Latvia in 2000 as part of Brainstorm
- Marie Naumova, winner of the 2002 contest for Latvia
- Sakis Rouvas, represented Greece in 2004 and 2009
- Željko Joksimović, represented Serbia and Montenegro in 2004 alongside the Ad Hoc Orchestra, and Serbia in 2012
- Alsou, represented Russia in 2000
- Stefan Raab, represented Germany in 2000
- Eldar Gasimov, winner of the 2011 contest for Azerbaijan
- Måns Zelmerlöw, winner of the 2015 contest for Sweden
- Edsilia Rombley, represented the Netherlands in 1998 and 2007
Presenters who resigned
- Chaim Topol (1979)[7]
- Rene Medvešek and Dubravka Marković (1990)
- Alison Doody (1995)[8]
- Ruslana Lyzhychko, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 (2005)[9]
- Yana Churikova (2009)[10]
Presenters costume designers
Year | Costume designers | Ref. |
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1987 | Thierry Mugler | |
2001 | Isabell Kristensen | |
2002 | Aarne Niit and Katrin Kuldma | |
2007 | Erika Turunen | |
2013 | Jean-Paul Gaultier | |
2014 | Ole Yde | |
2015 | Ariane Rhomberg | |
2017 | LUVI, Indposhiv, Lake Studio and Burenina |
Allocation draw presenters
Year | Presenter(s) | Year | Presenter(s) |
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1994 | Niamh Kavanagh and Fionnuala Sweeney[19] | 2008 | Jovana Janković and Željko Joksimović |
1995 | Unknown | 2009 | Yana Churikova |
1996 | Christian Borch | 2010 | Peter Svaar |
1997 | Mary Kennedy and Eimear Quinn[20] | 2011 | Judith Rakers and Sabine Heinrich |
1998 | Malcolm Boyden[21] | 2012 | Leyla Aliyeva and Nazim Huseynov |
1999 | Meni Pe'er[22] | 2013 | Pernilla Månsson Colt and Josefine Sundström |
2000 | Unknown | 2014 | Tine Gøtzsche and Ulla Essendrop |
2001 | 2015 | Kati Bellowitsch and Andi Knoll | |
2002 | Tanel Padar and Dave Benton[23] | 2016 | Alexandra Pascalidou and Jovan Radomir |
2003 | Marie N and Renārs Kaupers[24] | 2017 | Timur Miroshnychenko and Nika Konstantinova |
2004 | Meltem Cumbul and Korhan Abay[25] | 2018 | Sílvia Alberto and Filomena Cautela |
2005 | DJ Pasha and Volodymyr Klytschko | 2019 | Assi Azar and Lucy Ayoub |
2006 | Maria Menounos and Sakis Rouvas | 2020 | Chantal Janzen, Edsilia Rombley and Jan Smit |
2007 | Jaana Pelkonen and Mikko Leppilampi | 2021 | |
Opening Ceremony presenters
Year | Presenter(s) |
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2012 | Leyla Aliyeva and Nargiz Birk-Petersen[26] |
2013 | Pernilla Månsson Colt and Kodjo Akolor[27] |
2014 | Bryan Rice, Abdel Aziz Mahmoud, Ulla Essendrop and Peter Falktoft[28] |
2015 | Kati Bellowitsch and Andi Knoll[29] |
2016 | Jovan Radomir and Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson[30] |
2017 | Tetyana Terekhova, Slava Varda, Andriy Kishe, Amy Grace, Neyba Traore, Hanna Butkevych and Andriy Dzhedzhula[31] |
2018 | Cláudia Semedo, Inês Lopes Gonçalves, Pedro Granger and Pedro Penim[32] |
2019 | Noa Tishby[33] |
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