Azerbaijan Wins 2011 Eurovision Song Contest

The annual gay camp extravaganza that is Eurovision song contest is over. This year the show was really spectacular. Queer Me Up favorites; The guys from “Blue’ did not win but their performance was amazing! They promised to do a naked photoshoot if they win. Well, no hope to see them in their birthday suits now! In the end Azerbaijan has scored it’s first win in the 56th Eurovision Song Contest.

Eurovision Website reports:

Düsseldorf, Germany – After an exciting voting in front of tens of thousands of people in a fully packed Düsseldorf Arena and millions of TV viewers all over Europe, it was finally Ell/Nikki from Azerbaijan who received the highest number of points from televoters and juries from the 43 countries participating in this year’s edition of Europe’s favourite TV-show! Ell/Nikki managed to gather 221 points altogether – followed by Raphael Gualazzi from Italy with 189 points and Sweden’s Eric Saade who collected 185 points.

Ell/Nikki – Running Scared. Winners of the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest

Here are some of the performances from last night.

Blue performing ‘I Can’ From UK

Jedward performing “Lipstick” from Ireland

Nina performing ‘Čaroban’ from Serbia

Eric Saade performing ‘Popular’ from Sweden

New Tomorrow perfroming ‘A Friend In London’ from Denmark