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Terry Wogan's denies blame for Eurovision slip up

Wednesday March 21st 2007

Terry Wogan has refused to accept blame for announcing the wrong winner on the Eurovision qualifying show Making Your Mind Up.

The experienced presenter announced that solo singer Cyndi had won the singing contest, before co-presenter Fearne Cotton, corrected him and confirmed that Scooch had in fact won.

Wogan has tried to play down the incident saying: "Nobody died, it wasn't the General Election and people got a bit confused.

"I suppose I should make an apology to Cyndi - although I'm not taking the blame for this because I was the one who said Cyndi had won.

"And if she's listening, my apologies for raising your hopes at the last minute, which was inadvertent and I'm sorry."

Earlier in the month, it was revealed that the popular entertainer is the only celebrity paid for their participation in Children Need. The Radio 2 DJ takes home a healthy £1,300 an hour for the one night charity extravaganza.