BREAKING: Eurovision Dutch contestant Joost Klein DISQUALIFIED from final

'He will not compete tonight, Eurovision is down to 25 finalists.'

GB News Reporter, Charlie Peters, is in Malmö where Dutch contestant Joost Klein has been disqualified from the Eurovision final.

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[ec]

He wasn't gay enough for Europe. 😅

[dancelover]

Turns Joost was filmed just after the Thursday performance even though that was against the EBU rules. He told the person to stop more than once and when that person kept on going Joost made a threatening gesture. Didn't touch the person. And because of that he is disqualified. More countries have complained they were filmed and that was against the rules.

[vanessagray]

Looks like the Eurovision Song Contest (which is supposed to be politically a no go area) is a bust and should now be disbanded. The whole idea of this contest is to bring people and their countries together. That’s not happening any more!

[brianpotter]

Any chance of disqualifying the disgrace that is the UK entry.

[emilyteam]

Slogan of the contest is "united by music", and they disqualify the only song that is litteraly uniting Europe. And he is inocent until proven guilty

[fionanicholson]

Looks like a pride festival, not a song contest

[MrRemus]

To my opinion the camerawoman should be the one who should be expelled from the event by disrespecting contestants. She deliberately did not respect Joost request not to film him right now. If I was Avrotros or the Dutch party, I would sew that camera-woman and the EBU. This will have consequences for the future of ECS

[buddhidev]

There was the incident. The investigation is ongoing.
But the EBU decided to kick him out. Overreacting!

[bostonbikebits]

This is excellent news, it means we can't come 26th.

[luthenrael]

EBU change the slogan from "United by Music" to "Divided by Politics" it makes more sense

[TheBonzobonzo]

Hold on, accused of being intimidating?! Now the potential winner has been disqualified?! Why doesnt everyone do this to get rid of their compeition?

[bigbotno]

Just in Dutch news: Joost was filmed by a camera woman after he got of stage in the half finals against the rules and his will. He asked her several times to stop filming which she didn't. Joost made a move towards her camera without touching her. Of that incident has been made a complaint which got him disqualifite. :-S

[roosb]

Joost was filmed against his will, indicated several times that they had to stop filming, Joost was done with it and made a threatening movement, no one was injured and he just continued walking, the lady overreacted and called the police, Joost has been disqualified. This has to be a joke...

[artyyx]

Ok thank will never watch eurovision again :D

[elxore]

from a swedish person, im really disappointed

[remconoordermeer]

Wow. The official statement is out. Apparently a Swedish camerawoman kept filming him, after repeated requests to stop it. He then “made a threatening gesture towards the camera.” Nobody was touched, just a threatening motion after being harassed. Apparently that gets you disqualified.

[berserkirclaws]

Bad move!
Never forget that the fans of this Dutch singer did pay for their tickets and will be there no matter what.
So the organisers should maybe have ask for some apologises to appease the tensions and a avoid to create more unwanted conflicts in the final.

[tannenispen]

After all the controversies following the press conference this was the one mistake ebu needed to get rid of the trouble maker. Joost did not fit their agenda, its that simple

[StickmanEditz]

Absolute sadness :( his dad would be very upset. Klien didn’t deserve this :( 😢

[Demo-critus]

Joost has not been arrested, there was no violence and the prosecutor is not in any hurry (could take weeks). Nevertheless, the EBU has both convicted and punished Joost, the Netherlands and all fans of Eurovision. No more Eurovision for me this year, sadly.

#EBUmaffiaOut #DividedByMusic #FreeJoost #JeSuisJoost