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Well, we're in Liverpool for Eurovision 2023 and we're in the MNS bank arena where in just a few minutes,

a dress rehearsal is going to start ahead of Saturday's grand final.

Tomorrow night, this stadium is going to be packed with thousands of fans from across the world

and an estimated 180 million people are going to be watching on TV.

As an artist, you really couldn't get a bigger stage.

We just had a classic bookstrips style moment from Blanca,

the Polish entry for this year's contest.

We're one of her backing dancers who was all in silver sequence whipped off her skirt.

Like a rainfall, and he's walking through dry mist.

Very, very Eurovision.

I feel like this is going to go off with the crowd on Saturday night.

And among all the glitter, the shiny suits and the novelty dance routines and power ballads,

you'll see there's a message too that Europe stands with Ukraine.

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