Olly Alexander provides Eurovision update after being left 'quite stressed' and shares 'heartbreak'

Olly Alexander has provided a Eurovision Song Contest update ahead of the grand final on Saturday, May 11. The It's A Sin actor and Years & Years singer is representing the UK with his song entry Dizzy.

Viewers got to see Olly perform for the first time on the Eurovision stage during the first semi-finals after it was confirmed the Big Five, which includes the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, and France, would be performing for the first time during the semi-finals despite automatically qualify for the main event.

However, things didn't go to plan for Olly who suffered a malfunction during his performance when his mic pack fell off. The error was spotted by eagle-eyed fans, who took to social media to share their thoughts. You can read more on this here.

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And now, in a fresh update, Olly has spoken about how the blunder left him feeling "quite stressed," and admitted he wasn't able to perform to the best of his ability because of it. Speaking to his 764K on his Instagram Story, Olly said: "Eurovision updates, semi-final one was last night, I performed, it was good, I had a slight... well my mic pack fell out halfway through the performance so I had to catch it and it just kind of threw me off.

"So I was worried I would... there were just elements of the routine I couldn't really do as well as I would have liked, I was quite stressed my pack was going to fall off entirely."

He continued: "Anyway, it doesn't matter, that is the thrill of live music and television, anything can happen." Olly also shared his heartbreak over the countries that didn't make it through to the grand final.

He said: "The show was amazing, so many amazing contestants and they all did so well, and it's so heartbreaking that anyone had to go home because they work so hard. The preparation, the months of rehearsals, and everything that goes into it, so it was sad that anybody had to go but they did so well, everyone was so good."

The 33-year-old finished off by saying: "I'm quite tired really, on a deep, emotional, spiritual level." The countries that failed to qualify for the grand final were Poland, Iceland, Moldova, Azerbaijan, and Australia. You can see the full list of qualifiers here.

The second semi-final will now take place on Thursday, May 9, when this year's 37 countries will be confirmed. You can read more about how the semi-finals work here. You can keep up to date with the latest TV and showbiz news by signing up to the newsletter here.