Note: We Americans and other non-Europeans might want to read this to have this article make a bit more sense.

From the BBC

The Mancunian musician first expressed an interest in taking part after Daz Sampson’s song, Teenage Life, came fifth from last in the 2006 contest.

“I was horrified but not surprised to see the UK fail,” he said. “Why didn’t they ask me?”

The BBC says it is in talks with the singer to write and possibly perform a track for this year’s contest in May.

But a spokeswoman for the corporation warned “nothing is confirmed at the moment”.