Bedwas-based food firm Peter’s Pies has backed Wales’ very own Bonnie Tyler to win this Saturday’s Eurovision Song Contest by baking a special edition pie.
The dish, dubbed the ‘Bonnie Pie-ler’ has ham, cheese, leek and potato – it also has a little bit of extra cheese thrown in for good measure.
Speaking about their latest pie tribute, Peter’s marketing controller Clare Morgan said: “We’re huge Eurovision fans at Peter’s and to have a Welsh star like Bonnie taking to the stage this weekend to represent the UK is something we felt we just had to recognise with a pie created especially in her honour.
“We’ll all be hoping for the elusive ‘douze points’ on Saturday – good luck Bonnie.”
Swansea-born Tyler is currently an 80-1 shot to win the contest in Malmö, Sweden, with her song ‘Believe in Me’. The UK last won the competition in with Katrina and the Waves in 1997.
A poll of Britain and six other European nations has revealed that Brits are the most cynical about the Eurovision Song Contest
On the eve of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest, a pan-European YouGov poll reveals that Brits are the most likely to say that some countries suffer unfairly from political voting, and don’t have any real chance of winning Eurovision.
According to YouGov’s EuroTrack survey, which tracks public opinion in Britain, Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway, a whopping 75% of Brits say some countries don’t have a real shot at winning the annual talent contest because of political voting by other competing nations.
The UK has entered Eurovision every year since 1959, and has won a total of five times. However, since 1999, the year in which the rule that songs must be performed in one of the official languages of the participating country was abandoned (so that other nations’ entrants could also perform in English), Britain has had less success. It has only finished in the top ten twice since 1999, and its entry last year, musical veteran Engelbert Humperdinck, finished in 25th place.
YouGov Director of Political and Social Research Joe Twyman said: “We haven’t won Eurovision since 1997, and a more than decade-long losing streak has obviously had an impact on how people in Britain feel about it.
“While all of the countries we surveyed have some degree of cynicism about Eurovision, it’s interesting that the Swedes – who won last year – are most likely to say it helps bring Europe together. I think it’s reasonable to assume that were Bonnie Tyler to win, or even finish strongly, Brits might start to feel just a little more enthusiastic about Eurovision.”