‘Last night I watched the Eurovision song contest with great pleasure and especially proud’, the presenter says via Instagram Stories. ‘Traditionally, I Twitter all evening about everything that comes along. I mainly try to be funny, but that was not the case with one particular tweet yesterday. ‘
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Leonie wrote about the Serbian entry: ‘Three beautiful transgender people who really belong on a stage like this’, something that, according to her followers, was really not possible. Leonie has realized that herself, and she now wants to say sorry for that. “And so a public apology is in order here: sorry.”
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What makes it extra painful is that Nikkie de Jager, who presented the evening alongside Chantal Janzen, Jan Smit and Edsilia Rombley, announced last year that she is transgender.
That she got a bigger role during the song festival this year was a dream come true for her. “This was my greatest dream from day one and I have shed endless tears,” she said after the final. On 1. “The last time there was trans representation was with Dana International. And then there was a big hole with nothing and now I was happy. But please don’t let me be the last.”
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