UK Eurovision winners attack pop contest

The Eurovision Song Contest was blasted as “mundane” and full of “crap” songs today – by its British winners.

The contest has long been ridiculed for its cheesy pop entries but has continued to draw a dedicated audience.

But a unique gathering of UK winners today saw several laying into the show which helped them pile on record sales.

Katrina Leskanich, who had the biggest hit of her career after winning in 1997, said: “You go there and you hear all these songs and it’s kind of like when your dog takes a crap in the corner of a room.

“At first it’s really offensive and then you don’t smell it anymore and it loses its offensiveness and that’s what those songs are like.

“Turds in the corner, that’s what they are,” said the former singer of Katrina And The Waves.

She gathered with all the homegrown Eurovision winners today who were launching the latest the Guinness music bible British, Hit Singles.

The 1976 winners Brotherhood Of Man also criticised the competition, which this year takes place in Latvia on May 24.

Singer Martin Lee said: “It’s become very boring. It’s become mundane.

“It was going that way back in 1976, then they moved it to the Royal Albert Hall and it came alive.

“It needs to be brought up to date. It should be something like I’m A Eurovision Entry ... Get Me A Hit.

“The cameras should live with them for two or three weeks – it’s a current trend that people are going for.”

Leskanich said she had no idea what the song contest was before she got involved and only took part because “it went with the territory of finding a record deal”.

She parted company with the band just months after the win, despite performing with them for more than a decade.

“It was a quick fix,” she said. “We had four consecutive weeks of Top Of The Pops, a number two hit record but at the end of the day it made f***-all difference.”