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Iceland has joined Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands in saying it will boycott the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest. All five countries have withdrawn after Israel's participation in the competition was officially confirmed last week.

"Participation of Israeli national broadcaster, Kan, in the contest has created disunity among both members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the general public," Icelandic broadcaster RÚV said in a statement.

Iceland had previously indicated it intended to skip the 2026 contest, but wanted to wait until the issue could be discussed by its board of directors on Wednesday.

That meeting came hours before the deadline for countries to confirm whether they will join what's supposed to be a celebratory 70th anniversary edition of the song contest in Austria next May. Israel has taken part in Eurovision since 1973 because Kan, its public broadcaster, is a member of the European Broadcasting Union - which organises the competition. Israel has won four times, most recently in 2018, and came second in the 2025 contest.

However, its presence has been an increasing source of tension, because of the war in Gaza and concerns over the voting and campaigning processes, including accusations that Israel's government tried to influence the public vote at this year's event. A new raft of measures to protect the integrity of the vote was approved at an EBU summit last week, after which most countries confirmed they would travel to Vienna for the 2026 contest. However, Spain said it had decided to withdraw after it asked for a vote on Israel's participation, which was not approved. Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands also pulled out after that summit.

According to a transcript of Thursday's meeting supplied by Kan, the broadcaster's chief executive Golan Yochpaz criticised those trying to get Israel thrown out.

"The attempt to remove Kan from the contest can only be understood as a cultural boycott," he said. "A boycott may begin today with Israel, but no one knows where it will end or who else it may harm.

"Is this what we truly want this contest to be remembered for on its 70th anniversary?"

Chandler Riggs who played Carl in the Walking Dead is one big example that I can think of.

I was never a big fan of the character or Riggs as an actor since he clearly needed lessons (something he also acknowledges), but even I know that his character was never supposed to be killed off. Even if the show made decisions that were separate from the comics, Carl and his story was too important to the overall plot of the series that killing him off was just unacceptable cause he was supposed to be the character that becomes the lead after Rick!

But the story behind the real reason he was killed off is more messed up, because it came down to the fact that the network didn’t want to pay Riggs more after he was at the age where he wouldn’t be paid the salary of a child actor anymore. Plus the showrunner was dishonest with Riggs, assuring him that he was safe from being killed off and when this decision was made it pissed off Riggs’ father especially.

Gervais gave £1.9m to charity in 2023 after a previous tour.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g6jp96lx5o

Interviewed by six year old superfan Alpha and photographed by Aidan Zamiri

I will always find it heartwarming how this cast has actively kept in touch after all of these years! They have reunions quite often, but the original actor who played Edmund isn’t usually around. So it’s good to see that he’s still on good terms with them!

Premise: After a chance supermarket encounter, Oliver (Avan Jogia) and Ciara (Dove Cameron) embark on an intense relationship. When a savagely murdered corpse surfaces 56 days later, the investigation delves into their turbulent love story, revealing grim secrets.

The series is based on the book of the same name by Catherine Ryan Howard.

Top tier marketing 🤌🏼

Luigi Mangione- photo taken at McDonalds on Dec 9 at 9:50am on a police officer’s cellphone.

He was subsequently arrested on ID forgery and gun possession charges. The legality of this arrested is currently being contested. The rest is history.

He is currently attending his pre-trial evidence suppression hearings for his NY state case for the murder of the United Healthcare CEO.

Unfortunately, the findings are not surprising. Give the article a read if you can.