After the ESC victory, Nemo celebrated with the trophy – a little too exuberantly, as it became clear afterwards.
Nemo (24) broke the ESC winner’s trophy – just a few minutes after the Swiss star won the music competition with 591 points in the final. The song “The Code” received 365 points from the juries and 226 from the audience.
Cup falls apart on stage
After Nemo accepted the trophy from the Swedish ESC winner of 2023, Loreen (40), there was one last appearance on the stage in Malmö, with Nemo, sitting on the floor, passionately waving the trophy.
The handcrafted work of art is shaped like a microphone and is made of solid transparent glass. When the star of the show tried to get up again, Nemo apparently slammed the trophy onto the stage too hard. The result: Half of the trophy was on the stage while the other half was still in the hand. Nemo confirmed that the trophy had been broken, but a new one had been handed out by the organizers. Nemo also apparently sustained a thumb injury in the incident, and a bandage on his hand was seen at the press conference.
First Swiss victory since 1988
This didn’t seem to diminish the joy of the victory: Nemo won the first ESC victory for Switzerland since Céline in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest, which had the motto “United By Music”, with his hit “The Code”. Dion (56) achieved this in 1988. In the end, the Croatian Baby Lasagna (28), who was long considered the favorite, and his song “Rim Tim Tagi Dim” took second place. The Ukrainians Alyona Alyona (32) and Jerry Heil (28) came third with “Teresa & Maria”. Germany’s Isaak (29) scored a total of 117 points after the voting and came in twelfth place.
Source: Stern
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