2006
Hosted in: Bucharest, Romania Won by: Russia – Vesenniy jazz by The Tolmachevy Twins 2006 is the first of 16 subsequent editions of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest that the UK didn’t participate. Part of the reason that caused the inevitable withdrawal is the lack of interest from the show’s target audience in the UK – which affected a small part of their blunder the previous year, therefore lost their motivation over an otherwise novel contest. Despite this, the show continued to be presented in English. Not that it helped anyone, but at least the commentators had it, given their basic knowledge of the language. Last year we saw the winner’s honor going east – to Belarus. So it’s no surprise that the contest itself is heading east too to Bucharest. Still no “winner gets to host”… We were immediately greeted by Ioana Ivan – the first kid to either host or co-host the song contest. The opening act consisted of a circus-like act so crazy Ioana couldn’t stop it. She had to rely o...