Sir Terry, who has been the BBC’s Eurovision commentator since the Seventies, cast doubt on his role last night after he said that prospects for Western European participants were “poor”.

X-factor contestant Andy Abraham finished in last place with just 14 points for his song Even If, while winning entry Dima Bilan of Russia was awarded a massive 272 points with a song produced by US R&B star Timbaland.

Sir Terry said the 43-year-old former bin man gave a “blinding performance” and deserved more points.

“It’s a disappointment, considering that Andy Abraham gave, I think, the performance of his life with a song that certainly deserved more marks than it got,” he said.

UK entrant Andy Abraham finished last

He added: “You have to say that this is no longer a music contest.”

“I have to decide whether I want to do this again. Western European participants have to decide whether they want to take part from here on in, because their prospects are poor.”

Today showbusiness legend Bruce Forsyth said: “I agree with him. It’s not a song contest any more, it’s political.

“It’s all so biased, it’s developed into a farce. I’ve stopped watching it, the last couple of years.”

Western European participants have to decide whether they want to take part from here on in, because their prospects are poor.

Asked about the future of the show, he quipped: “As long as they don’t ask me to do it, I don’t care!”

Pop svengali Simon Cowell said: “If people enjoy it as entertainment, that’s great, but it’s all a bit empty and meaningless as a competition.”

Public relations guru Max Clifford commented: “Terry Wogan is spot on. It’s all about politics and block voting and nothing to do with the merits of a song.

“It’s like having a World Cup where the results are worked out in political terms and it’s got nothing to do with who scores the most goals.”

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PETERPAN

27.05.08, 4:27pm

Yes lets get out , out of Europe altogether will be better

• Posted by: Maggie • Report Comment

TERRY WOGAN MAY QUIT EUROVISION SONG CONTEST

26.05.08, 2:44pm

Yeah right - by the time it rolls around again, he'll have forgotten all about that.
It's far too lucrative for him to give up!

• Posted by: BoggyDepot • Report Comment

"YOU THINK IT'S ALL OVER...

26.05.08, 12:57am

you should be so lucky" Terry at a pause in a particularly Bulkern wedding tune. He cracks me up :-)

Eurovision has been political for at least 10 years. Good ol' Terry is why we watch it, and to see the UK get nil points.

• Posted by: Wayland • Report Comment

ITS A FIX

25.05.08, 11:53pm

This manipulated and biased voting is a foretaste of the fate awaiting us in an EU Super State dominated by countless Eastern European former Soviet satellites. They will always gang up on us. We will always be out-voted. We will always lose. That's democracy in the EU.

Lets STOP now, lets get out.

• Posted by: Peter_Pan • Report Comment

SONG CONTEST.

25.05.08, 9:34pm

Regardless of voting, Terry Wogan and all the artists, surely it's a load of old coblers! Not worth looking at.

• Posted by: fletton • Report Comment

RE: : MILLIEC COMMENT

25.05.08, 9:00pm

please tell me you heard Spains entry...... absolute bo**ocks in every possible way yet it got more points than our great song... Eurovision is a farce, a sham and considering Alex Ferguson's comments ref Spain and Franco don't be too surprised if it transpired that they pulled votes again. Just like they did in 1968 with their abyssmal 'Lalala'

• Posted by: AffenKid • Report Comment

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