A EUROVISION Song Contest finalist is celebrating finishing eleventh ahead of the UK's own entry.

Bulgaria's Victoria Georgieva, among the 20 finalists in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, came a respectable eleventh on the night of the final, on May 22.

Victoria has links to Blackburn Rovers through her producer, Genoveva Christova-Murray, who is wife to John Murray, Chair of the Rovers Trust.

The hopeful 23-year-old posed in a Rovers t-shirt to win over the hearts of football fans in East Lancashire before the semi-finals where UK fans were able to vote in.

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After singing Growing Up Is Getting Old, in Saturday's final, Moldova and Portugal awarded Bulgaria with full points, and this originally put Victoria in sixth place.

But as he public votes came in, the ranking table shifted and Victoria's 170 points moved her to eleventh instead.

The UK's entry with James Newman's Embers, failed to secure any points in the whole contest.