TONIGHT sees the return of the Eurovision Song Contest after last year’s event was called off because of the pandemic.

To honour the return of the grandest of all singing shows, we decided to look back through the archives at a couple of the competition's weirdest and most wonderful moments.

Brighton’s best-known connection to Eurovision is obviously Abba's winning performance at the Dome in 1974.

But it is not the city’s only link to the annual competition.

In 2005, Brighton-born glamour model Katie Price had set her sights on a pop career after her successful stint on ITV reality show I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!.

Katie competed in a competition to be the UK’s Eurovision entry that year with a song called Not Just Anybody.

Her performance, which critics described as “memorable”, gained 29 per cent of votes, but she lost to Javine Hylton’s Touch My Fire, which gained 30 per cent.

Javine went on to finish 22nd in the Eurovision final, which took place on May 21, 2005, three weeks before Katie gave birth to her second son.

During an appearance on TV's Loose Women, Katie claimed that her failed bid was a “fix” because she was seven months' pregnant.

She made comments during a discussion about discrimination against women of child-bearing age in jobs.

She said: “What a surprise, I lost by one per cent. It was a fix, I reckon.”

“Was that because you were pregnant?” asked Coleen Nolan.

“Absolutely,” Katie replied, adding, “Yeah, absolutely” when asked if she really meant that.

“Do you not think it’s because it was a bit rubbish?” Coleen asked.

Katie did gamely admit that it would have been a disaster because she couldn’t sing.

“I can’t sing the song now and I couldn’t sing it then,” she confessed.

“It was so cringe, if anyone ever played it I’ll just be like that (covers ears).”

Shown a clip of her performing the track on GMTV ahead of the Making Your Mind Up show, she revealed that she had been miming the song too.

The BBC declined to comment on her fixing claims.

James Newman, the UK’s entrant in this year’s competition, will be hoping to make a less controversial appearance when he takes to the stage in Rotterdam tonight.

He had been due to perform last year and will represent the UK with his upbeat track new track Embers, a contrast to the ballad My Last Breath, which he had planned to sing in 2020.

Graham Norton will return to Eurovision on BBc One as commentator for his 12th contest, while Ken Bruce will host the Eurovision coverage on BBC Radio 2.

The Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final is at 8pm on BBC One.