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YouTube star NikkieTutorials ‘honoured’ as she’s announced as Eurovision 2020 online host


Nikkie de Jager is ‘thrilled’ to be taking on the role (Picture: NPO/AVROTROS/NOS/Getty)

YouTube star NikkieTutorials has been announced as the online host for the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 and we’re definitely into it.

The Dutch star, who boasts a following of more than 13 million on YouTube, said she was ‘beyond thrilled’ to announce the news as she shared a string of snaps of herself donning a glitzy jacket.

Basically, she already looks like a pro.

‘GOOD EVENING EUROPE, I am beyond honored and thrilled to announce that I’m the online host for #ESC2020,’ she wrote.

‘I’ll appear on all three #Eurovision live shows AND host a special YouTube series with this year’s participating artists in ROTTERDAM!’

Count us in.

Nikkie has had an amazing few months, after receiving an outpouring of love and support when she came out as transgender in a video.

The YouTuber – real name Nikkie de Jager – said in the video: ‘Today I am taking back my own power.

‘Planet Earth is full of labels and I never felt comfortable with labels. I wanted to be my own person, my own identity, without any rules, labels and without any restrictions.’

And her announcement as the online host for the contest comes after a string of performers have been confirmed for the contest, which is set to take place in May this year.

Nikkie recently came out as transgender (Picture: NikkieTutorials/YouTube)

Singer Diodato will be representing Italy this year, after the star took home the win at the Sanremo Festival competition.

Samanta Tina will represent Latvia, while Montaigne will be taking to the stage for Australia. Meanwhile, Eden Alane has made history as the first Ethiopian-Israeli to represent Israel.

However, the announcements haven’t come without a touch of drama (of course), as Italian hopefuls Bugo & Morgan were disqualified after storming off-stage mid-performance at the Sanremo festival.

Things took a turn for the worse when Morgan changed up the lyrics at the last minute and seemingly threw all the shade at his duetting partner.

To the music of their track, Sincero, he called his buddy out on his alleged ‘ingrattitude, arrogance, and bad intention,’ as well as telling him to ‘respect the stage and the person who brought him there.’

And as the words flowed from his mouth, the live orchestra stopped playing, seeing Bugo leave the stage in a huff.

The drama of it all.



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