Katie Price's 'huge' Eurovision regret after narrowly missing out on representing UK
Katie Price has reflected on competing to represent the UK amid the 20th anniversary of her performance. The Former Eurovision Song Contest hopeful and reality star was runner-up in the Making Your Mind Up selection contest.
The 46-year-old former glamour model was among the five finalists on the BBC show in 2005, which was used to decide who would represent the UK at Eurovision in Ukraine that year. She ended up placing second behind Javine Hylton.
Hylton went on to perform her song Touch My Fire in the international competition. Podcast host Katie, who was pregnant with her son Junior Andre at the time, competed in Making Your Mind Up with the song Not Just Anybody.
Her performance is said to have earned her a combined score of 101 points, which wasn't enough to beat Javine, who had instead amassed 116 points, the Mirror reports.
She's reflected on the experience ahead of watching the final of this year's Eurovision in Switzerland on Saturday. She spoke about the contest on the latest episode of her podcast, the Katie Price Show, which was released on Thursday alongside the semi-finals airing.
Katie told her sister Sophie Price: "For years and years, I always remember us always watching Eurovision and then I was up to do it." She added that she will livestream herself watching the final with her partner JJ Slater and some pals.
Katie added: "I can't wait for the Eurovision. I haven't got any memories of Eurovision apart from when I was gonna represent the UK [in 2005] and they weren't good memories."
Sophie then asked her: "What was your song?" Singing part of the song that she had competed with, Katie replied: "I'm not just anybody ..." Her sister reacted: "Oh god, that song!"
Katie continued by saying that although she "can sing," she "couldn't" sing Not Just Anybody back then or now. She said: "The thing is I couldn't even sing the song then and I couldn't sing it now, yet I can sing. But I still can't sing that song.
"I hated it! The whole b***s*** about 'oh you're gonna get a Sony album but you have to do this song' and then they found out I was pregnant and then I lost by one per cent."
Katie went on to share that she "regrets" taking part in Making Your Mind Up two decades ago. She said on the newly-released episode: "It's just all political stuff, as usual - but anyway, that's always a regret of mine doing that."
The I'm A Celebrity winner added in the discussion about the contest: "If there's any regret of any job, it was me doing Eurovision in the pink rubber catsuit being seven months pregnant. Trying to hide the fact that I was pregnant."
The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 final will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer from 8pm on Saturday night. The Katie Price Show is available on podcast platforms.
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