The BBC's selection of ageing singing legend Engelbert Humperdinck as the UK's brightest hope to win Eurovision for the first time since 1997 is causing something of a furore. According to the Daily Mail the BBC has been "swamped" with complaints about the 76-year-old crooner with some arguing that in the Olympic year it is not showing the UK to be a "young hip place" to be. Cynical commenters on the BBC's website claimed that perhaps the strategy is to win by cornering the "middle-aged women vote from all across Europe".
