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Austria wins Eurovision - as paint thrown during Israel's performance
Austria has won Eurovision 2025, with Austrian-Filipino singer-songwriter JJ taking the glass microphone.
The 24-year-old singer - whose real name is Johannes Pietsch - originally trained as a countertenor, and represented his country with the operatic ballad Wasted Love, dramatically staged on a storm-tossed ship. The song, which was not dissimilar to that of last year's winner Nemo, told the story of unrequited love, with a techno breakdown near the end.
Austria has won Eurovision twice before, the last time in 2014 with Conchita Wurst's pop hit Rise Like A Phoenix. Israel's Yuval Raphael, who survived the 7 October 2023 attacks which were the catalyst for Israel's ongoing offensive in Gaza, was the runner-up with piano ballad New Day Will Rise, performed in Hebrew, French and English.
The singer was left "shaken and upset.
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