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Mae Muller has sent fans crazy when closing out Eurovision 2023 for the United Kingdom with an epic grand final performance.
The 25-year-old singer followed in the footsteps of last year’s entry Sam Ryder, who came in second place with his smash hit Space Man.
With the UK part of the Big Five, she managed to bypass the semi-finals and was automatically sent through with the entries for France, Germany, Spain and Italy, as well as last year’s winners Ukraine.
Before she hit the stage it was revealed that to date, the song had already been streamed over eight million times.
The arena were clearly excited to see her hit the stage, with cheers and claps ringing out before she began.
In the show-stopping performance Mae wore a black bodysuit, which had a sheer bodice and long sleeves, while her outfit was accessorised with layers of silver necklaces.
Flanked by dancers, a video playing in the background jumped between a selection of close up shots of her.
Then making her way down stairs, a task she’d previously said she was slightly nervous about as she also had to stare directly into the camera at the same time, Mae pulled it off perfectly.
The break-up anthem then saw her strutting down the stage whilst being followed by the dancers.
Those watching along at home threw their support behind the singer.
The crowd went absolutely wild and were cheering for minutes afterwards, even as hosts Graham Norton and Hannah Waddingham were trying to explain the voting process.
‘Mae you absolutely smashed that. You go girl!,’ one person posted on Twitter.
‘Mae smashed that. So proud of you,’ someone else said.
Another added: ‘I’ve fallen in love with Mae and this song.’
Speaking about her outfit on The One Show on Saturday night, Mae shared that although she had initially wanted to wear a colourful get-up, it was instead decided a black bodysuit would complement the colourful set design.
Taking to Instagram just hours before her performance, Mae wrote: ‘I can’t believe we made it to May 13th.’
‘The last 3 months have been a whirlwind.
‘We laughed we cried & everything in between but I wouldn’t change a single second, and none of it would be even remotely achievable without the people around me and the ESC community.’
She added that she was ‘forever grateful’ for being embraced ‘with open arms’.
‘Tonight is the night & I just hope I can do all of you proud, but whatever the outcome, thank you, thank you, thank you 💘 Eurovision you have a place in my heart forever,’ she added.
Speaking about her performance, Mae recently told Metro.co.uk that she was going in with a ‘positive’ feeling.
‘I really believe in the song, and I feel like we’ve all worked really, really hard on the show, so I think we’ve got a really good chance of doing well,’ she said.
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