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Ireland Jedward appears in bubblegum slot machines to press conference
Baku, May 18 (AZERTAC). The brothers changed into other specially designed outfits for their press conference. They resembled bubblegum slot machines, as can be seen in our gallery. Virtually all the press conference was taken up the photographers taking shots of the pair as they jumped up on the table, or performed cartwheels on the platform, showing if nothing else that they were extremely fit. They put some of that energy down to having to having two bowls of porridge in the morning, and not having sweets.
One Dutch journalist managed to persuade one of them to briefly wear an orange feathered Indian headdress to show support for Joan Franka.
The brothers also took turns in interviewing each other, before they decided to wander into the audience and chat direct to the journalists, and to see if the press had done their homework following their first conference. However, there was little new information to be gained, as questions tended to be of the predictable nature. Their favourite songs from this year were the entries of Cyprus, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine, Romania and Germany.
Jedward make Irish Eurovision Song Contest history as for the first time Ireland sends the same act two years in a row.
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