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Bonnie Tyler – totally eclipsed by Eurovision excuses?

Bonnie Tyler
Bonnie Tyler's entry for Eurovision is Believe in Me. If she doesn't win because it's too good, is that too good to be believable? Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar

When it comes to the UK's appalling track record in recent Eurovision song contest history, it pays to have an iron-clad excuse ready to go. Total Eclipse of the Heart singer Bonnie Tyler has prepackaged a corker, the Sun reports. If she loses, it is because her song is "too good" to win. "It has been said to me over the last couple of weeks: 'You're not going to win this, Bonnie, your song's too good,'" she said of her entry Believe In Me. That's 10 out of 10 on the lies that make no sense scale then.

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